By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Yesterday we reposted Dr. Saunders’ brilliant "Reflections on the BMA’s vote to ‘decriminalize’ abortion – ten key observations." The essay was comprised of his analysis of the British Medical Association’s decision, the result of...
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Reflections on the BMA’s vote to ‘decriminalize’ abortion – ten key observations
By Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. On June 27 delegates at the BMA annual representative meeting (ARM)...
New parliamentary report on conscientious objection to abortion calls for widespread changes
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. A new parliamentary report has found that there is ‘widespread...
British doctors reject neutrality on assisted dying, decision largely ignored in media
By Michael Cook As one might expect, media coverage of assisted dying (aka assisted suicide or euthanasia or the right to die or dignity in dying) is skewed towards ringing-the-changes rather than steady-as-she-goes. In late May The Economist, an outspoken supporter,...
British Medical Association overwhelmingly opposes move to change position to support assisted suicide
By Dave Andrusko Question: how could you know, just by the length of the first stories in the British press, that the British Medical Association (BMA) had voted against going “neutral” on assisted suicide? Easy. After a spate of stories going back weeks, all of which...
BMJ archives demonstrate BMA’s 180 degree turn on abortion to embrace wholeheartedly what it once called ‘the greatest crime’
Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization. On 25 June in a blog titled ‘BMA still not listening to public or science on late abortion’ I reported on the vote at the British Medical Association annual...