for a 24 week time limit.
BMA the RCOG have supported the ABOTDOI Act, while they maintain their final arbiters of whether a woman should have abortion or not rather than supporting a woman's right o choose, neither of these Coll be held to be anti abortion organisations.
These doctors present a number of arguments support of this position. The most common is that by around 26 weeks the lungs have developed, it is theoretically capable of breathing air therefore of living independently of the womb, should therefore be considered a human being in its own right.
The development of the lungs is in fact just since advances 1r medical technology have allowed the survival of a proportion of 26 week premature births, it places unreasonable strain upon nursing and medical staff to be involved both In Ine struggle maintain a life at 26 weeks, ane co week termnauons The conscience clause for the medical profession means that no nurse doctor has to be involved in bortion at any point if th object to it. However thi the problem, greater funding for the NHS to allow clinics dealing with abortion to be completely separated out from other functions would deal with this completely.
Many women who have had even have ton NHS found themselves in wards shared with woman desperately seeking a cure infertility, or cases of early miscarriage. This distressing for all the WOlICE concerned must be for the nursing staff as well, but argument against abortion rights.
Finally, once we allow the argument for a lowering of upper abortion on the basis of technological progress, then evidently each step forward would lead to further limits until all abortion were illegal?