{"id":12986,"date":"1966-02-26T17:37:00","date_gmt":"1966-02-27T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12986"},"modified":"2023-02-02T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:24:04","slug":"correspondence-abortion-law-reform-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12986","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) Abortion Law Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Denis Pells Cocks<\/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>Nowadays therapeutic abortion is performed relatively rarely for organic disease, and the indications are largely psychiatric with often associated secondary social factors. Whilst some clarification of the old law may be necessary in order that all can understand the situation, we must beware lest in reframing the law this results in the opening of the floodgates in the demand for termination on more liberal grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Cocks DP. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1843784\/pdf\/brmedj02539-0073a.pdf\">(Correspondence) Abortion Law Reform<\/a>. Br Med J. 1966 Feb 26;1(5486):539. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Pells Cocks ExtractNowadays therapeutic abortion is performed relatively rarely for organic disease, and the indications are largely psychiatric with often associated secondary social factors. Whilst some clarification of the old law may be necessary in order that all can understand the situation, we must beware lest in reframing the law this results in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Correspondence) Abortion Law Reform&#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":[11,554,882,559,1405],"tags":[1765],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-12986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ethics","category-journals-correspondence","category-law","category-obstetrics","tag-denis-pells-cocks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>(Correspondence) Abortion Law Reform - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abortion performed rarely for organic disease: indications largely psychiatric, often secondary social factors. 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