FizzingWhizzbees
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I just wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. It's a UK Court case, so I'm not sure how the legislation surrounding this differs from that in the US - can anyone tell me?
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Court challenge to morning after pill policy
The government's decision to make the morning after pill available over the pharmacy counter faced a legal challenge in the High Court on Tuesday.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children argues that the pill is a form of early abortion, and should therefore be subject to abortion rules.
The action is being taken under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, which forbids the supply of any substance with the aim of causing a miscarriage.
The group have already successfully bid for a judicial review of the policy.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme the national director of SPUC, John Smeaton, described the emergency contraception as a "cynical deception of women."
"We think it is deliberately promoted as contraception because...if you talk directly about abortion women do not like it.
"What we have is almost entirely unsupervised abortion by pill," he said.
If the court rules in favour of SPUC, all forms of contraception could be called into question.
Anne Furedi of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service said that emergency legislation would be needed if such a decision was reached.
"In a civilised modern society the government would have to step in to take measures to allow women to benefit from modern science of contraception," she said.
The case is set to continue.
(http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020212/143/cs4rs.html)
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Court challenge to morning after pill policy
The government's decision to make the morning after pill available over the pharmacy counter faced a legal challenge in the High Court on Tuesday.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children argues that the pill is a form of early abortion, and should therefore be subject to abortion rules.
The action is being taken under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, which forbids the supply of any substance with the aim of causing a miscarriage.
The group have already successfully bid for a judicial review of the policy.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme the national director of SPUC, John Smeaton, described the emergency contraception as a "cynical deception of women."
"We think it is deliberately promoted as contraception because...if you talk directly about abortion women do not like it.
"What we have is almost entirely unsupervised abortion by pill," he said.
If the court rules in favour of SPUC, all forms of contraception could be called into question.
Anne Furedi of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service said that emergency legislation would be needed if such a decision was reached.
"In a civilised modern society the government would have to step in to take measures to allow women to benefit from modern science of contraception," she said.
The case is set to continue.
(http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020212/143/cs4rs.html)