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Abortion Bill
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 30.
The British Medical Association today voiced its opposition to a Bill now before Parliament which, if passed, will allow Britain’s 23,000 family doctors legally to perform abortions.
The association said in the “British Medical Journal” that it had asked the Ministry of Health to insist on abortions being performed or supervised by a gynaecologist or an equivalent specialist The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists supports the B.M.A.
The Abortion Bill, sponsored by a Liberal member, Mr D. Steel, will be decided by a non-party vote in the House of Commons.
The House has already voted overwhelmingly in favour of reforming the country’s 100-year-old abortion laws in an effort to halt the country’s annual 40,000 back-street abortions. The B.M.A. also described as objectionable, clauses in the Bill which would make abortion legal if the mother was raped or could be severely strained, mentally or physically, by an addition to her family. The B.M.A. warned that these clauses might lead to an “excessive demand” for abortions which would be unacceptable to the medical profession.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31256, 31 December 1966, Page 2
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