UK majority 'back abortion'
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Most people think women have a right to choose an abortion, but the number is falling, a survey says.
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Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them  in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government  pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and  reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.
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REVELATIONS that an NHS-backed charity helped women to travel to Spain for abortions that would be illegal in Britain are proof that the UK - s abortion law should be relaxed, a leading pro-choice campaigner ...
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Portuguese voted on Sunday on whether to legalize abortion in a referendum that could bring the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country closer into line with most other European states.Comment
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An MP's call for compulsory counselling and a "cooling off" period before abortions is defeated.
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Portugal is deciding in a national referendum Sunday whether to discard its strict abortion law, a battle that pits the Socialists government against conservative parties and the Catholic Church.Comment
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The architect of Britain's abortion law said Wednesday that the procedure was too common and some women were using it as a form of birth control.
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Scottish Catholics should reject politicians who defend abortion, Scotland's most senior Catholic will say.
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Portuguese leader Jose Socrates has pledged to legalise abortion By setting out on the path to legalise abortion, Portugal treads where most western nations did 30 or 40 years ago.Comment
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Sex education is not enough to cut teen pregnancies and abortions in the UK, Medical Research Council experts say.
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Portugal voted in the predominantly Roman Catholic country's second referendum in less than a decade on whether to liberalise one of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws.
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The government on Tuesday said a controversial abortion pill is safe enough to remain on the market, despite a third death and a grieving father's plea.
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The British Medical Association today called for abortions to be approved by one doctor, rather than the current two.
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Abortion rates in Britain have gone up, despite the increased availability of the emergency contraceptive morning-after pill, according to research.
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A UK charity has insisted it is not breaking the law by referring women abroad for late abortions.
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In Congress and states nationwide, anti-abortion activists are broadening efforts to support hospitals, doctors and pharmacists who &#151; citing moral grounds &#151; want to opt out of services linked to abortion and emergency contraception.
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Portugal's parliament approves abortion on demand after a referendum last month failed to settle the issue.