Abortions are legal in England if they are performed by a registered medical practitioner and take place within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Otherwise, it is illegal to deliberately end a pregnancy and, under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, it carries a maximum punishment of life imprisonment. Source link
Canberra: Extortionists dumped stolen client records relating to pregnancy terminations on the dark web on Thursday in their latest effort to pressure Australia’s largest health insurer to pay a ransom. The cybercriminals began dumping customer records on Wednesday including treatments for HIV and drug addiction after Medibank this week ruled out paying a ransom for … Read more
Terminations at home had been allowed temporarily in England and Wales during the pandemic. Source link
The US president warns some US states will attempt to arrest women crossing state lines for access. Source link
Scotland’s chief medical officer said emergency arrangements, adopted in March 2020, allowed patients to take both abortion medications, mifepristone and misoprostol, at home. It meant that women would not be prevented from accessing abortion at a time when coronavirus was a serious threat to public health. Source link
The firm will reimburse travel costs for various treatments in the US, including abortion. Source link
The National Network of Designated Health Care Professionals (NNDHP), which represents senior NHS doctors and nurses who fulfil child-safeguarding roles in England, has recorded 47 cases of early medical abortions that actually resulted in mid- to late-pregnancy terminations, across all ages, since the start of the pandemic, in March 2020. Source link