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The Abortion Act 1967 [1] (c. 87) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legalised abortion in Great Britain on certain grounds by registered practitioners, and regulated the tax-paid provision of such medical practices through the National Health Service (NHS).
BPAS was founded in Birmingham, England in 1968 by Diane Munday and others as the Birmingham Pregnancy Advisory Service. On the day that the Abortion Act 1967 came into force, Saturday 27 April 1968, the first patients had their consultations in the front room of the then Chairman, Dr Martin Cole. [2]
Transgender women are to be banned from female NHS wards, as health secretary Steve Barclay insisted that the Tories “know what a woman is”.. The health secretary promised in his conference ...
Between 1970 and 1976, Indian Health Services sterilized between 25 and 42 percent of women of reproductive age who came in seeking healthcare services. [156] In California, ten women who delivered their children at LAC-USC hospital between 1971-1974 and were sterilized without proper consent sued the hospital in the landmark Madrigal v.
The Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women was established with eight beds at Showell Green in Sparkhill in 1871. [2] It moved to a converted farmhouse on the Stratford Road in 1878, to a purpose-built facility on Showell Green Lane in 1905 [ 2 ] and then to the current modern facility in Edgbaston in 1968. [ 3 ]
Under the plans, starting next month, women will be pinged reminders that the are due or overdue an appointment for breast screening. New NHS ‘ping and book’ service will encourage women to ...
Women's health services such as Leichhardt Women's Community Health Centre which was established in 1974 [35] and was the first women's health centre established in Australia is an example of women's health approach to service delivery. [36] Women's health is an issue which has been taken up by many feminists, especially where reproductive ...
Sojourner Truth's Women’s Rights Convention speech. In 1851, Sojourner, a women's rights activist and abolitionist, gave a speech at the convention, and in 1863 its transcription was re-released.