Some of the activists here in the United States with me are much more pro-abortion than their American counterparts. Yesterday, however, I think their minds may have altered slightly when the fact that people can still have abortions in the eighth month of pregnancy was explained to them - and quite what partial birth abortion involves. If only anti-abortion campaigners stuck to this message initi...

I'd like to hear those of you who delight in seeing abortion as a form of contraception defend this. A child was born after 23 weeks and was then killed by medical staff at an abortion clinic. A lawsuit has been filed.

Many thought the new UK abortion stats, released today, would show a link between the recession and rising abortion rates. They were wrong.

The TUC overwhelmingly voted to call for an end to anti-abortion attacks on women’s rights and for improved access to abortion services

Harriet Harman is also backing down from putting forth liberalisations to the abortion laws. According to ePolitix she is concerned that the Lords could overturn other aspects of abortion law, such as the loophole that allows abortion to be carried out after 24 weeks in the cases of severely diabbled foetuses. I need to do more research on this - surely severely disabled foetuses would show up bef...

In the US abortion is a major political issue. The pro-choice and pro-life lobbies are hugely powerful and it is one issue where there is hardly ever agreement between the Democrats and the Republicans. But how does abortion relate to UK politics? Basically this is a thread for people to discuss what impact abortion has on UK politics, what people believe should be the legal position and how well ...

I wonder what you thought of the recent watershed in advertising of abortion on TV? No matter what your stance is on abortion, something significant happened last week. In allowing the advert to screen, we took another step in the...

I have to say that I didn’t think that this would be where the two, abortion and the Equality Act, would first meet: After receiving a letter from the centre, the hospital initially told the nurses that they would be excused from administering the abortion-inducing drugs but would have to remain working at the clinic.

The EU has effectively admitted that the Lisbon Treaty was a threat, both to the Irish Republic's abortion law (of which the new political elite there wants rid, anyway), and to her constitutional neutrality. This double admission has vast implications, because very similar abortion laws exist in many member-states (it is in fact Great Britain's, but not Northern Ireland's, American-style abortion...

The American Psychological Association (APA) has released a comprehensive review of research that shows abortion does not undermine mental health. The APA is one of the most influential mental health bodies and the findings of this report ought to help undermine MPs efforts to restrict access to abortion. The Times article says: Anti-abortion MPs have tabled an amendment to the Human Fertilisation...