Pregnancy counselling in Britain: a review of the literature

Frank Field MP and Nadine Dorries MP are seeking to take away from abortion providers their role in providing women with information and counselling. So far, it it is unclear exactly what problem these MPs consider exists and how they think other arrangements would make things better. In 1998, Pro Choice Forum brought together some of those who had spent time thinking about this area at a conference held in Oxford, 'Issues in pregnancy counselling: what do women need and want?'. This commentary revisits and summarises some of the main issues and themes raised at that event and in the relevant literature on the subject published subsequently...

Late abortion: the new clash in the Choice Wars

Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of British Pregnancy Advisory Serive, takes to task those who claim that a grisly late-abortion clinic in the US shows we must restrain women's reproductive freedom.

Fetal Pain Again

Read this commentary on the recent report from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) on fetal awareness, written by Stuart Derbyshire, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, and member of the RCOG Working Party that authored the report.

'Green' family planning: where should we stand?

Should women be encouraged to restrict the number of children they have on environmentalist grounds? Those advocating this view go to great lengths to argue that theirs is a non-coercive perspective that seeks to empower women. Indeed they argue it is in line with pro-choice arguments for better access to contraception and abortion worldwide. Is this an argument that that pro-choice people should accept? For discussion of these issues read on here.

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