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Author Sheldon, Sally

Title The Abortion Act 1967 A Biography of a UK Law
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (362 p.)
Series Law in Context Ser
Law in Context Ser
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- UK Legislation -- Irish Legislation -- Statutory Instruments -- 1 Introduction -- The Run Up to Reform -- The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill 1966 -- The Abortion Act 1967 -- A 'Biography' of the Abortion Act -- A Note on Sources, Methods and Objectivity -- 2 The Early Years -- The 'Social Clause' and the Doctors' Gatekeeper Role -- Medical Decision-Making -- Women's Experience of Accessing Abortion Services
The Role of the Charitable Sector -- The 'Living Abortus' -- Babies for Burning -- The Lane Committee -- 3 The Parliamentary Battle for Restrictive Reform -- The White Bill 1975 -- The Benyon Bill 1977 -- The Corrie Bill 1979 -- The Alton Bill 1988 -- The 1990 Reforms -- Conclusion -- 4 The Battle for Normalisation -- A Demographic Revolution -- Expanding Access to Abortion Services: Abortion Charities and Clinic Protests -- The Expansion of the Abortion Charities -- The 'Abortion Industry' and Clinic Protests -- Improving the Technical Ease, Safety and Acceptability of Abortion
Vacuum Aspiration and Outpatient Abortion Services -- 'The Pill That Changes Everything' -- Women's Experience of Abortion -- The Acceptability of Abortion -- Mainstreaming Prenatal Screening and Testing and Abortion for Fetal Anomaly -- New Technologies and Changing Attitudes towards Disability -- Ultrasound and Visualisation -- Conclusion -- 5 The Battle for Legal Meaning -- How Late, How Early, How Legal? -- How Late? -- How Early? -- The Doctors' Gatekeeper Role -- The 'Social' Ground -- The 'Serious Handicap' Ground -- Treatment for the Termination of Pregnancy
'Terminated by a Registered Medical Practitioner' -- Place of Provision -- Conscientious Objection -- Conclusion -- 6 The Battle for Northern Ireland -- Abortion in Northern Ireland -- Westminster: 'The Government Has No Plans for Amending the Law' -- 'Much Better to Leave It for the Time Being' -- Abortion in the Twilight Zone -- Westminster during Power-Sharing -- Stormont: 'Bleak House' -- The Long Battle for Legal Clarification -- 'Bleak House' -- Outside Stormont -- Conclusion -- 7 The Parliamentary Battle for Modernising Reform -- A Hiatus in Parliament
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act Returns -- The Science and Technology Committee Report -- The Parliamentary Debates -- The Ongoing Battle for Restrictive Reform -- 'Independent' Counselling and Informed Consent -- Sex Selection -- Fetal Anomaly -- Conscientious Objection -- Protection of the Unborn -- Devolution -- The Battle for Liberalising Reform -- Decriminalisation -- Northern Ireland -- Pandemic -- Conclusion -- 8 A Biography of the 'Great Untouchable' -- Shaping the Abortion Act -- Shaping the UK -- The Future -- Appendix 1 The Abortion Act 1967 (original text)
Summary Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK
Notes Description based upon print version of record
THE ABORTION ACT (As Amended 1990, Changes in Bold)
Subject Great Britain. Abortion Act 1967.
SUBJECT Abortion Act 1967 (Great Britain) fast
Subject Abortion -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History
Abortion -- Law and legislation -- Northern Ireland -- History
Abortion -- Law and legislation
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Davis, Gayle
O'Neill, Jane
Parker, Clare
ISBN 9781108753449
1108753442
9781108754682
1108754686