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British lawmakers to vote on whether to lower 24-week abortion limit

iht.com
May 20, 2008
        

British lawmakers were voting Tuesday on whether to lower the upper time limit for abortions from the current 24 weeks, a move that could reduce access to abortion services for the first time in almost two decades. Legislators were due to hold a series of votes on whether to retain the current...

Abortion and misogyny

pickledpolitics.com
May 19, 2008
        

In the debate over the abortion laws, a number of commentators have labelled attempts to tighten the law as misogynistic, since it will decrease the control a woman has over her own body. This might well be true, but abortion can also help to reinforce misogynistic attitudes. Many families around...

                   

Abortion: decision day approaches

bloggers4labour.org
May 18, 2008
        

I see I was one of the seven ministers identified by The Sunday Times this morning as preparing to vote to reduce the 24-week upper limit on abortion. I was actually called by them yesterday afternoon while I was trying, with limited success, to calm a distressed two-year-old who had only just...