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Home » Abortion, motherhood and the medical profession

Abortion, motherhood and the medical profession

March 20, 2013 By SSHA Leave a Comment

Date

  • Wednesday 12 June 2013

Venue

  • Royal Society Of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE

A joint meeting with BPAS

9.00 am Registration and refreshments
9.30 am Welcome and opening remarks
Mrs Joanne Fletcher, Consultant Nurse, Gynaecology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Ms Jennie Bristow, Publications and Conference Manager, British Pregnancy Advisory Service
Foetal imaging, and imagining the foetus
Chair: Clare Murphy, Director of External Affairs, British Pregnancy Advisory service
9.35 am Dr Stuart Derbyshire, Reader in Psychology, University of Birmingham.
9.55 am Professor Carol Sanger, Columbia Law School
10.15 am Ms Zoe Williams, The Guardian
10.35 am Q & A Session
11.00 am Refreshment Break
Information, counselling and the law
Chair: Dr Ellie Lee, Reader in Social Policy, University of Kent
11.30 am Dr Patricia Lohr, Medical Director, British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
11.50 am Ms Jane Fisher, Director, Antenatal Results and Choices
12.10 pm Professor Sally Sheldon, Kent Law School
12.30 pm Q & A Session
12.45 pm Lunch & Sexuality & Sexual Health Section AGM
Testing positive, negative and in between: How the semi-quantitative pregnancy test could transform the management of abortion, miscarriage, fertility treatment and ectopic pregnancy
Chair: Ann Furedi, Chief Executive, BPAS
1.45 pm Professor Paul Blumenthal, Stanford University
2.15 pm Mrs Joanne Fletcher, Consultant Nurse, Gynaecology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
2.45 pm Dr Roy Farquharson, Consultant Gynaecologist, Liverpool Women’s Hospital
3.15 pm Refreshment break
4.30 pm Discussion: A new generation of abortion doctors – challenges and opportunities
Ms Katharine Elliott, Newcastle, Dr Richard Lyus, British Pregnancy Advisory Service and Mr John Parsons, Consultant Gynaecologist

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