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PE Shea<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Extract<\/strong>
Alan Massam’s article “Abortion Act gains outweigh drawbacks – British inquiry” (Can Med Assoc J 110: 1301, 1974) is a disturbing example of slanted journalism, aimed at further poisoning the minds of the bulk of doctors who sit on the fence in the abortion issue. . . .Mr. Massam, and apparently the inquiry, attempt to subtly convince us that abortion is a socially, morally, legally acceptable fact of life and we need only concern ourselves with its details. . . . Surely all our human rights are secondary to the right to life. This is the basic principle that the inquiry and Mr. Massam choose to ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shea P. (Correspondence) Inquiry into British law on abortion<\/a>. Can Med Assoc J. 1974 Sep 7;111(5):388. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PE Shea ExtractAlan Massam’s article “Abortion Act gains outweigh drawbacks – British inquiry” (Can Med Assoc J 110: 1301, 1974) is a disturbing example of slanted journalism, aimed at further poisoning the minds of the bulk of doctors who sit on the fence in the abortion issue. . . .Mr. Massam, and apparently the inquiry, … Continue reading “(Correspondence) Inquiry into British law on abortion”<\/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],"tags":[1530,1529],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ethics","category-journals-correspondence","category-law","tag-alan-massam","tag-pe-shea"],"yoast_head":"\r\n(Correspondence) Inquiry into British law on abortion - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A disturbing example of slanted journalism, aimed at poisoning the minds of the bulk of doctors who sit on the fence in the abortion issue\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13504\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"(Correspondence) Inquiry into British law on abortion - 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