Call for abortion 'choice'.A GROUP of medical experts today called for a change in the abortion laws which would enable women to have greater freedom of choice. In a letter printed in the Times newspaper, 85 medical law and ethics specialists have called for parts of the abortion legislation to be modernised. The letter calls for the qualifying conditions on abortion that require women to obtain signed permission from two doctors before the procedure can take place, to be scrapped. The letter said the law was outdated and no longer appropriate. The academics write that the current restrictions on where abortions are carried out are no longer justified, given medical advances. The group also suggests that trained nurses should be allowed to carry out abortions. The controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology embryology Study of the formation and development of an embryo and fetus. Before widespread use of the microscope and the advent of cellular biology in the 19th century, embryology was based on descriptive and comparative studies. Bill will return to the House of Commons House of Commons: see Parliament. for further debate in the coming weeks. A cross-party group of MPs have tabled a series of amendments to the abortion law Abortion law is legislation which pertains to the provision of abortion. Abortion has at times emerged as a controversial subject in various societies because of the moral and ethical issues that surround it, though other considerations, such as a state's pro- or antinatalist . The amendments include allowing abortion-inducing drugs to be taken in the home as well as reducing the number of doctors needed to approve terminations from two to one. The plans are sure to be vigorously opposed by pro-life MPs. |
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