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The procurement of an abortion remains a criminal offence in Great Britain under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, although the Abortion Act provides a legal defence for both the pregnant woman and her doctor in certain cases. Although a number of abortions did take place before the 1967 Act, there have been around 10 million abortions ...
In the United Kingdom, the Abortion Act 1967 legalized abortion on a wide number of grounds, except in Northern Ireland. In Great Britain, the law states that pregnancy may be terminated up to 24 weeks [68] if it: puts the life of the pregnant woman at risk; poses a risk to the mental and physical health of the pregnant woman
The Abortion Act 1967[ 1] (c. 87) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legalised abortion in Great Britain on certain grounds by registered practitioners, and regulated the tax-paid provision of such medical practices through the National Health Service (NHS). The bill was introduced by Liberal MP David Steel as a Private ...
The Abortion Act 1967, in Great Britain, was the first major liberalisation of abortion law in Western Europe. English law had previously allowed for abortion on limited grounds under the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929 (also protecting the life of the pregnant woman) and from 1938 under the Bourne judgment in cases where a pregnancy would ...
In the United Kingdom, the Abortion Act of 1967 clarified and prescribed abortions as legal up to 28 weeks (later reduced to 24 weeks). Other countries soon followed, including Canada (1969), the United States (1973 in most states, pursuant to Roe v.
History of abortion. Indirect advertisements for abortion services, like these in The Sun in 1842, were common during the Victorian era. At the time, abortion was illegal in New York. [ 1] The practice of induced abortion —the deliberate termination of a pregnancy —has been known since ancient times. Various methods have been used to ...
1920s. 1920 – In France, a law forbidding all forms of contraception and information about it was enacted. 1920 – In the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin legalized abortion on request, the first country to do so. [22] The law was first introduced in the Russian SFSR, and then the rest of the country in 1922.
This category contains articles which are related to abortion, abortion law, the abortion debate, or the history of abortion within the United Kingdom. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.