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Pregnancy can kill women
Complications during pregnancy can kill women, not pregnancy itself.
Most women dont have abortions to save their lives, they have them to get rid of an unwanted child.
The state is complicit in this act because it doesn't want the burden of disabled and abandoned children.
Its cheaper to encourage women to kill off their kids before they are born.
 
What is so perfect about the current system that changes can't be discussed?
Reducing the gestation period is probably irrelevant or moot but might be proposed along side some more beneficial measures. Simply to get all sides interested. I doubt the gestation cut off will be reduced by any meaningful amount, like they have done in the fruit loop states in the US.
2.1 Currently, the requirement for two doctors to certify that a woman meets the legal grounds for abortion has the potential to delay treatment. It may be difficult for a woman who is concerned about confidentiality to find two doctors to approve her abortion request. There is no central monitoring of delays to treatment of this type, but recently, Tony Calland, the Medical Ethics Committee Chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) said that "some women waited up to 13 weeks [gestation] to have their abortion approved by two doctors and removing this requirement would reduce such a wait and the associated risks". The requirement for two signatures for solely legal purposes also increases treatment costs by introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.

4.3 Recent public opinion polls suggest that the public would like to see improved and easier access for early abortion but that the upper limit should be reduced or that later abortions should be subject to greater counselling and stricter approval criteria. The BMA, the RCOG the Nuffield Council on Bioethics have addressed the problems surrounding later abortion.

4.5 In practice, it would seem reasonable to reduce the 24 week upper limit for section 1(1)a C and D abortions to 16 weeks. Abortions could still be approved over 16 weeks under section 1(1)a Ground B where the termination is necessary top prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the women. Agreement to such abortions would follow improved in-depth counselling and a concerted effort to confirm that there is a risk of grave injury. (No limits would be placed on abortions sanctioned under Grounds A and E).

84. The Abortion Act 1967 requires that an abortion under ground A to E is certified by two doctors, who must each sign a Department of Health HSA 1 form to give notification that the abortion has been approved and on what grounds, and an HSA 4 form for information including patient details, the method of abortion and gestation time.
 
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Complications during pregnancy can kill women, not pregnancy itself.
Most women dont have abortions to save their lives, they have them to get rid of an unwanted child.
The state is complicit in this act because it doesn't want the burden of disabled and abandoned children.
Its cheaper to encourage women to kill off their kids before they are born.
I've asked you before, I'll ask again.

Each case is individual. Do you have any facts of any case in order to help make a decision?

What right do you have to impose your views on any woman's case without any facts ?
 
It won't stop the RWR religious morons from trying.
No it will not - but even with a loaded SC the anti-abortion lobby will persist in using arcane litigation in order to clog up the courts and maintain a public profile on the issue. Democrats will push the pro-choice message hard as the election digs in to Fall.
 
What right do you have to impose your views on any woman's case without any facts
All cases are individual just like the child that is aborted.
There may be exceptions where termination of a pregnancy may be necessary but most abortions are not those exceptions.
However abortion today is used as a form of birth control.
 
All cases are individual just like the child that is aborted.
There may be exceptions where termination of a pregnancy may be necessary but most abortions are not those exceptions.
However abortion today is used as a form of birth control.
So you have no facts but can make decisions for all the women Involved.

Arrogant if not woman hating
 
2.1 Currently, the requirement for two doctors to certify that a woman meets the legal grounds for abortion has the potential to delay treatment. It may be difficult for a woman who is concerned about confidentiality to find two doctors to approve her abortion request. There is no central monitoring of delays to treatment of this type, but recently, Tony Calland, the Medical Ethics Committee Chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) said that "some women waited up to 13 weeks [gestation] to have their abortion approved by two doctors and removing this requirement would reduce such a wait and the associated risks". The requirement for two signatures for solely legal purposes also increases treatment costs by introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.
A bit typical of some august body sitting around a table jawing and looking for problems. So find some proof that the delay is due to the 2 docs aspect. An abortion clinic is set up to work that way. Use a GP - does a referral count as an approval. Pass. In some respects given the allowed reasons for an abortion it could. The GP would just need to discuss that. Some might have religious objections so another would need to be found. The usual main reasons for an abortion being allowed boil down to an unwanted baby. The baby all being ok will be around for a long time which takes care of that aspect - long term effect on the mother or even other children in the family.

Then there is the mechanics. Just copy pasting from the NHS
The length of the menstrual cycle varies from woman to woman, but the average is to have periods every 28 days. Regular cycles that are longer or shorter than this, from 23 to 35 days, are normal.
Between the ages of 12 and 52, a woman will have around 480 periods, or fewer if she has any pregnancies.

It's difficult to pinpoint exactly when ovulation happens but in most women, it happens around 10 to 16 days before the next period.
Women who have a regular, 28-day cycle are likely to be fertile around day 14 of their menstrual cycle, but this won't apply to women whose cycles are shorter or longer.


I made are likely bold as I know for a fact that my wife's fertile period was shorter than that also other people wives that I know of via their husbands.

Then comes possible reasons for delays. Period late so test.
You can carry out most pregnancy tests from the first day of a missed period. If you don't know when your next period is due, do the test at least 21 days after you last had unprotected sex.
Some very sensitive pregnancy tests can be used even before you miss a period.

A positive test result is almost certainly correct. However, a negative test result is less reliable.

All pregnancy tests detect the hormone human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), which starts to be produced around 6 days after fertilisation.


Then comes the decision. Most couples will want a baby at some point. How long do they need to make their mind up to have an abortion?

The fact is that 88% of abortions are carried out between 3 to 9 weeks. 5.6% between 10 and 12,. 5.1% between 13 and 19 weeks. And 1.3% over 20 weeks. 2020 figures for GB. Is it reasonable to assume that the past 9 weeks plus 6 days is just down to the need for 2 doctors?

Then there are screening tests during pregnancy which may lead to an amniocentesis which is always done late for safety reason >15 weeks
 
You are still missing the point that until 1991, irrelevant of what the abortion act 1967 said, there were only two criteria that made abortion legal. The child was not viable or it was done in good faith for the purpose only of preserving the life of the mother.

Imagine a viable Foetus in 1980:

I don't believe I was missing the point. This is something we haven't discussed before. We are now talking about what would have happened to a viable foetus, before 1991. Nothing to do with the socio-economic criteria and mental health grounds for a non-viable foetus, which we had been discussing.

So, taking the example you give of 1980. At that time, we are talking about at least 24 weeks before a foetus would have been viable. So at first look, it seems you are correct. In the three situations you mention, before 1991, if a woman had wanted an abortion after 24 weeks, then she could not have had one. We are talking about 0.1% of abortions, though. That does not amount to the bar being substantially lowered in 1991.

The bar was substantially lowered..
 
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