Book Review: The Abortion Act 1967

Psychiatric referrals since the Abortion Act 1967.

During the 1st year of the Abortion Act, 1967, sixty-five patients were seen for a psychiatric opinion. Of these 50% were single, 36% married and 14% separated or divorced. Referral was by the general practitioner in 60%, gynaecologist 36% and 'other' 4%. Mean length of psychiatric history was 18-9 months. Half had had unhappy childhoods and family relationships were frequently disturbed. Four ...

Psychiatric referrals since the Abortion Act 1967 F . E . KENYON

During the 1st year of the Abortion Act, 1967, sixty-five patients were seen for a psychiatric opinion. Of these 50% were single, 36% married and 14% separated or divorced. Referral was by the general practitioner in 60%, gynaecologist 36% and 'other' 4%. Mean length of psychiatric history was 18-9 months. Half had had unhappy childhoods and family relationships were frequently disturbed. Four ...

Legal interpretation of the Abortion Act 1967: the role of nurses in surgical induced abortion.

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(2) Background The review by Argent and Pavey1 in this issue of the Journal analyses the Abortion Act 1967 and subsequent case law and concludes that health professionals, not just registered medical practitioners, can legally perform surgical abortion under certain conditions. The health professionals should be suitably trained and be under the di...

Abortion in England 1900–1967

Mexicans required the stimulus of the influenza epidemic of 1918 before they established a state board of health. He describes the efforts to eradicate malaria between 1923 and 1947, and the contemporaneous success in reducing high infant and maternal death rates. After analysing changes in physician supply and distribution since statehood, Spidle concludes with an analysis ofthe growth of boar...

The Abortion Act (1967). Findings of an inquiry into the first year's working of the Act conducted by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.