Letters: Pregnant with moral dilemmas
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: It is alarming that an organisation, with no knowledge of a woman's mental or physical health, was able to obtain an immediate injunction to delay or prevent legal medical treatment which had been agreed between the woman and her doctor ("Pro-life crusade is terminated", 7 August). There should be a legal inquiry as to how this came about.
A pregnant woman faced with such an action would first have to find legal aid or substantial funds to fight it, and then engage in legal action, thereby revealing her name and details of her case. If she won, she would then face a more traumatic and dangerous abortion, since the pregnancy would be further advanced.
BEVERLEY A LAWRENCE BEECH
Honorary Chair
Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services
Iver, Buckinghamshire
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