Reform UK abortion law, say health organisations

The UK’s abortion law is not fit for purpose and should be reformed, the editor in chief of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care has said.1 Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, clinical lead for abortion services at Cambridge University Hospitals, argued that the current law is paternalistic and out of step with technical advances in safe medical abortion. She said that many women presenting to abortion services in early pregnancy believe that they have a right to make their own choice, as they would in most of Europe, but that British law still requires …