RESOURCES:Abortion Fact Sheet

Many SRE teachers find that teenagers themselves raise the issue of abortion in sessions about pregnancy.

Furthermore there has been a lot of publicity since 13th May 2004 around the decision (without her mother´s knowledge)to have an abortion made by a 14 year old girl in Mansfield. This has sparked debate from many viewpoints, but on 15 May the Guardian published the views and feelings of a parent who wished he´d been able to help his daughter look at some of the reasons not decide to keep her baby. See here for the full story

In the year 2000 there were 3748 abortions carried out on under 16´s in the UK. these were clearly unintended pregnancies with a highly undesirable outcome for the teenagers. Abortion therefore is an extremely important and avoidable issue if teenagers are educated to negotiate contraception or abstinence assertively i.e. contraception education is carried out successfully.

If you need other facts and statistics for a debate about the issues, you might like to see "The Abortion Issue" by Craig Donellan - Volume 14, published by Independence Educational Publishers, Cambridge. (EMail issues@independence.co.uk) or order online from
Issues

The BBC also covers both Contraception and Abortion in GCSE Coursework

There are several kinds of abortion available
Early Surgical Abortion, Medical Abortion with Methotrexate, Medical Abortion with RU486 (Mifepristone tablets) and information is available from BPAS about all of these methods.

Visit this BPAS link to Current Facts and Statistics about Abortion
NHS Guidelines

For a view on the Human Rights of the Child in the Womb

For an Islamic Perspective

For the Orthodox Jewish Perspective


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For Hindu Perspectives

For a view from the Christian Medical Fellowship

For the proLife perspective

Post Abortion Counselling Consortium

Read about recent debates about BPAS giving information to women about the opportunities for legal termination abroad beyond 24 weeks in BBC News Online October 2004

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