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Letter to the Editor of the European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, by Marge Berer Received 04 Jan 2018, Accepted 23 Jan 2018, Published online: 19 Feb 2018 https://doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2018.1433825 Sir, In your recently published article “Progesterone for preventing…
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Abortion and Human Rights: Health & Human Rights Special edition Vol.19, No.1, June 2017
This is a special edition of the HHRJ Journal on one of the key topics of the Campaign – abortion law and policy and the value of human rights in seeking to improve policy and practice. Being one of the three guest…
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Journal and conference announcements bombarding my email addresses: what’s an author to do?
When open access journals first came onto the scene, I was really worried about the various ways they would change the journal publication landscape and practice. More importantly than anything else, I felt it was unfair and inequitable to charge…
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Letter to the editor, Belfast Telegraph, 16 January 2017
Dear Belfast Telegraph, RE: Suicide risk to woman accused of using poison to have abortion, court hears, by Alan Erwin, 11/01/2017 I find it quaint that you describe the medical abortion pills mifepristone + misoprostol as “poison” in your articles…
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Note on yesterday’s blog called Happy new year…
Two days ago, I published a blog that I have just deleted. The backstory involved turned out to be extremely complicated, far more complicated than I could have imagined, and having received an explanation for what happened, which was that one publication led to…
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Trumped
Trumped It has taken several days of listening to and reading a lot of useless verbiage about Trump, but I finally found a blog by Adam Shatz that expresses what I think has actually happened, and says some of what needs to…
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A call for consensus and cooperation to resolve differing estimates of abortion-related deaths
This article, in press, is about the difference between estimates of maternal deaths from unsafe abortion from the World Health Organization and those from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), USA, both published in 2014 in two different Lancet journals. The article,…
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Lessons from the case in Spain
Yesterday, I shared a feature article I wrote for the newsletter of the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion on this blog. I think there are a lot of lessons to draw from this case, but for me, at this…
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The Case of Dr Carlos Morín, Barcelona, Spain – “Hasta el final”
The history of the persecution of Dr Carlos Morín, former director of the Ginemedex clinic in Barcelona, Spain, the staff of his clinic and the thousands of women who had abortions there began in Britain in 2004 and reached its…
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Prof Homa Hoodfar imprisoned in Iran: call for her release (Note: Homa was finally released)
Homa Hoodfar, a respected Canadian-Iranian professor of anthropology of the Middle East in Canada, has been arrested in Tehran, Iran, and is being held in Evin prison without access to her lawyer, family members or to needed medical care. Full information…
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