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Aargh - the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child are distributing leaflets to GPs

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LadyBiscuit · 28/02/2011 18:16

This has made me so cross. There was just a piece on PM on Radio 4 about this but can't find anything online. Apparently there are thousands of GPs who have accepted SPUC's leaflet as a way of informing women who are considering abortion about the facts. There was a GP on who was saying that they needed their leaflets because information elsewhere did not provide a true picture.

The SPUC is a lobbying group trying to prevent abortion altogether (let's remember they tried to get the Morning After pill banned a few years ago) and are completely bloody inappropriate as a source of information at a GP's surgery which are supposed to be impartial.

I'm quite tempted to write to the GMC Angry

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LadyBiscuit · 28/02/2011 19:08

I haven't managed to find it SQ but haven't looked that hard. If a GP has a moral issue with abortion then he should tell his patient rather than giving her a blatant piece of propaganda though surely?

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SardineQueen · 28/02/2011 18:51

I imagine the GPs do proles as they're all self employed. I don't think there is anyone you can write to. It is legal for doctors to refuse things that go against their beliefs, I'm not sure it's any different with leaflets.

I am going to try and find one see what it actually looks like.

Prolesworth · 28/02/2011 18:50

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SardineQueen · 28/02/2011 18:41

here

SardineQueen · 28/02/2011 18:40

Really? I'm astonished. Mind you there are a lot of GPs who won't prescribe contraception etc on religious grounds so maybe it's one particular group?

Counterbalance is something i read in the paper about how there is shock horror that new guidance has come out that patients should be advised that abortion less dangerous than pregnancy + birth. Will try and find a link think it was in FILs torygraph.

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