IN any Western country with a heritage of Judaeo-Christian ethics, the regulation of abortion is an immensely complex problem in which the basic medical factors are obscured by religious, moral and emotional considerations. Great Britain is now learning the lesson of history in a most unfortunate way. A new law permitting abortion under certain circumstances was passed less than a year ago as a humane effort to treat the matter as an essentially medical issue between patient and doctor. Although the new law has proved helpful to British women, it has swamped physicians...
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