{"id":13767,"date":"1966-04-16T20:57:00","date_gmt":"1966-04-17T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13767"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:48:34","slug":"correspondence-abortion-law-reform-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13767","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) Abortion Law Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GW Theobald<\/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>Parliament must clearly decide whether they are mainly concerned with preventing the birth of defective children or with accommodating pregnant women. If they intend to move further than they have done in Scandinavia and give &#8221; abortion rights &#8221; to women they will have to set up special abortion clinics staffed by &#8221; committed&#8221; gynaecologists. . . the profession, for its part, must devise simpler and more effective means of birth control and of sterilization, and perhaps be willing to offer the latter to all women who have had two or more children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Theobald G. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1844846\/pdf\/brmedj02546-0069e.pdf\">(Correspondence) Abortion Law Reform<\/a>. Br Med J. 1966;1(5493):977-978. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GW Theobald ExtractParliament must clearly decide whether they are mainly concerned with preventing the birth of defective children or with accommodating pregnant women. 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