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		<title>bpas responds to new BMA policy on abortion!</title>
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The British Medical Association (BMA) today passed a policy motion by 67% in favour, that the BMA should call for UK legislation to be amended so that abortion under 14 weeks would be available on t...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=51</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 June 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>British Pregnancy Advisory Service comments on rise in abortions in England and Wales in 2006</title>
		<description>2006s Department of Health abortion statistics show a small but significant rise of 3.9% in the numbers of terminations of pregnancy carried out in England and Wales. In 2006, the total number ...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=3</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 June 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Anti-abortion ten minute rule Bill is unnecessary and disingenuous</title>
		<description>Please find below information and comment from the sexual healthcare charity and abortion provider BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service) relating to the ten-minute rule Termination of P...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=4</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 June 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>BPAS responds to Scottish Cardinals political speech on abortion</title>
		<description>Please find below comment from the sexual healthcare charity and abortion provider BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service) relating to comments by Cardinal Keith OBrien in Scotland callin...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=5</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>BPAS responds to draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill</title>
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Ann Furedi, the Chief Executive of the sexual healthcare and abortion provider charity BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service) said today in response to reports that UK law on abortion may be ...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=40</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Pulse Magazine survey not representative of all UK GPs' views</title>
		<description>Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of BPAS, the UK's leading sexual healthcare charity which specialises in abortion services, said today of Pulse Magazines questionnaire sent to GPs on medical ethics...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=7</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>BPAS doctors are 'proud to help' women in difficult circumstances</title>
		<description>Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of BPAS, the UKs leading sexual healthcare charity specialising in abortion services, said today:Abortion has been legally and safely provided by the NHS and ...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=8</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 April 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>BPAS nurses offer contraceptive advice to women at Europes biggest Health and Beauty Show</title>
		<description>Specially trained nurses will be on hand to offer free and confidential advice to women about contraception at Europes largest health, beauty and well-being event in London. Nurses from the sex...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=9</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 March 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Time for the nursing role in abortion care to be modernised BPAS nurses say</title>
		<description>Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the charity providing not-for-profit sexual healthcare services, said today in regards to a recent Journal of Family Planning and...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=10</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 March 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Local healthcare provision needs to respond to a young fit and fertile population</title>
		<description>Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the charity which provides not-for-profit sexual healthcare services, said today:This is a genuine problem for planners an...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=11</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 March 2007 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Women urged to keep emergency contraceptive pill at home just in case</title>
		<description>The sexual healthcare charity BPAS is today urging women to keep the emergency contraceptive pill (or morning after pill) ready at home, in case they risk pregnancy. The pill can prevent...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=12</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 December 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Poll shows majority support for legal abortion</title>
		<description>New research into public attitudes to abortion by Ipsos MORI shows that 63 per cent of a representative sample of GB adults agreed that if a woman wants an abortion, she should not have to cont...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=13</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 November 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Ethical comment on the care of preterm babies is welcome- but it does not shed any new light on abortion</title>
		<description>Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of BPAS, said today:This report is welcome in giving clear ethical guidance for doctors working with extremely premature infants for whom life outcomes are highly un...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=14</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 November 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Condoms less effective at protecting against pregnancy say bpas doctors</title>
		<description>Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of bpas, said today:At BPAS, we always supply condoms to all our clients, because everyone at risk of sexually transmitted infections should use them. The new campai...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=15</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 November 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Court says confidentiality for teenagers seeking abortion must remain</title>
		<description>Today (23 January 2006), the High Court says the Department of Health guidance allowing confidential advice for under-16s seeking abortions and contraception is in line with the law.Ann Furedi, Chief ...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=16</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 January 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>bpas urges women to look at contraception needs before the festive season</title>
		<description>As the holiday season draws nearer and Christmas parties are in full swing,bpas - UK's leading abortion provider - urges women to think about their contraceptive needs by buying emergency contraceptio...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=17</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 December 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Confidentiality for teenagers is vital for thoseseeking abortions</title>
		<description>bpas (abortion care)   UKs leading specialist abortion provider   says that confidentiality for teenagers is vital.  Young people need to know that they can have an abortion an...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=18</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 November 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>bpas welcomes results of CMO investigation</title>
		<description>The public health minister Ms Caroline Flint has confirmed that the Department of Health has no reason to doubt that BPAS provides a good, safe and legal abortion service under the Abortion Act 1967 i...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=19</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 September 2005 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Daily Mail article</title>
		<description>In response to the article in the Daily Mail, 7 September 2005, bpas is pleased to see that this confirms that our clinic staff treats young women requesting abortion in a sensitive and proper manner....</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=20</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 September 2005 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>MP accuses Government of covering up abortion report</title>
		<description>Backbench MP David Davies MP (Monmouth)has claimed that the publication of a report by the Chief Medical Officer into allegations thatbpas enabled women to undergo late terminations in Spain to a...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=21</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 August 2005 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>bpas opens a new abortion service in Swindon</title>
		<description>bpas   the UKs leading abortion provider   is now licensed to provide an early medical abortion service in Swindon.
bpasis working with local Primary Care Trusts to provide a local...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=22</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 August 2005 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>bpas urges BMA doctors not to reduce abortion time limit</title>
		<description>bpas (abortion care) - UK's leading specialist abortion provider - is urging British  doctors to reject any reduction in abortion time limits.   In an open letter sent to members of the...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=23</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 June 2005 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Response to Sunday Telegraph report</title>
		<description>bpas provides abortion care for almost 50,000 women each year, almost 80% of care is provided under contracts with the NHS. We receive no direct funding from the Department of Health. Our only NHS inc...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=24</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 October 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Early Medical Abortion</title>
		<description>Following the news reports over the weekend we can confirm that we are pushing for regulations to be changed to allow early medical abortion to be provided in an easier and more acceptable way.We are ...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=25</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 August 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>3.2% increase in abortion reflects increased choices for women</title>
		<description>Figures issued today by the Department of Health, suggest that British women in the 21st century increasingly see abortion as a solution to unplanned, unwanted pregnancy.Commenting on the publication ...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=26</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 July 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>bpas statement on Joseph Rowntree Foundation study into teenage abortion</title>
		<description>bpas Chief Executive Ann Furedi says:  The Rowntree report highlights that young women with unwanted pregnancies need fast access to specialist abortion services where they can be sure that thei...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=27</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 June 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Abortion guidelines - under 16s</title>
		<description>Further to the reports in the national press on the 13th May 2004 on the 14 year old from Nottingham who had an abortion without informing her mother (who subsequently found out) bpas says:There are e...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=28</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>bpas (abortion advice and care) comment on the C4 documentary My foetus</title>
		<description>bpas questions the film on abortion produced by Julia Black for C4 and challenges it stance that it captures the reality of abortion. The filmmaker, who insists she supports legal abortion, has said h...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=29</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 April 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>C4 to screen film on abortion</title>
		<description>We welcome the documentary scheduled for broadcast by C4 on the 20th April at 23:00hrs featuring a woman who is four weeks pregnant having a vacuum aspiration abortion. This is the first time that the...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=30</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 April 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>bpas statement on the in-depth study undertook by The Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in breast cancer</title>
		<description>We welcome the findings revealed in The Lancet (27th March) on the in-depth study undertook by The Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in breast cancer (secretariat based at The University of Oxfo...</description>
		<link>http://test.bpas.org/bpasknowledge.php?page=81&amp;news=31</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 March 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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