{"id":12115,"date":"1979-07-28T13:59:00","date_gmt":"1979-07-28T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:26:05","slug":"editorial-no-case-for-an-abortion-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12115","title":{"rendered":"(Editorial) No case for an abortion bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">British Medical Journal<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"172\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bmj.jpg\" alt=\"British Medical Journal, BMJ\" class=\"wp-image-11229\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">British Medical Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>Most doctors in practice today can remember when suicide, attempted or completed, was a criminal offence-yet now such a concept seems barbaric. The same incredulity will, surely, soon apply to attempts by the criminal law to control termination of pregnancy in its early weeks. Legal regulation is reasonable later in pregnancy (on the grounds of the duty of the law to respect concepts such as the sanctity of life) but it must be flexible enough to take account of the rapid pace of development in antenatal diagnosis of genetic and developmental disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>BMJ.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1595559\/pdf\/brmedj00084-0006.pdf\"> (Editorial) No case for an abortion bill<\/a>. Br Med J. 1979;2(6184):230. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Medical Journal ExtractMost doctors in practice today can remember when suicide, attempted or completed, was a criminal offence-yet now such a concept seems barbaric. The same incredulity will, surely, soon apply to attempts by the criminal law to control termination of pregnancy in its early weeks. Legal regulation is reasonable later in pregnancy (on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Editorial) No case for an abortion bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,554,881,559],"tags":[30],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ethics","category-journals-editorials","category-law","tag-british-medical-journal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>(Editorial) No case for an abortion bill - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Legal regulation of 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