Our aims
We are a group of UK-based clinicians who believe that evidence-based, high-quality abortion care should be recognised as a routine part of women’s reproductive healthcare and accessible to everyone who needs it.
What we do:
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Promote the idea of ‘conscientious commitment’ to abortion care and inspire future abortion providers
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Work towards the destigmatisation and normalisation of abortion for those accessing and those providing abortion care
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Advocate for comprehensive abortion care teaching as part of the core curriculum in all UK medical schools
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Support evidence-based workshops on pregnancy-decision making and abortion in secondary schools
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Draw attention to current workforce issues in abortion care and call for improved postgraduate training pathways
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Raise awareness of the problems with current UK abortion law and campaign for the decriminalisation of abortion across the UK
Our history
Doctor's for Choice UK was formerly Doctors for a Woman’s Choice on Abortion.
Doctors for a Woman’s Choice on Abortion was set up in 1976 with the following aims:
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to make it clear to the public and to MPs that a large number of doctors would favour a change in the law to give women the right to make the abortion decision
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to press for such a change in the law
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to answer at a medical level the arguments of anti-abortionists
Within the limits of the existing law, DWCA campaigned for:
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improved facilities for abortion, including day-care early medical abortion and the introduction of home medical abortion
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all areas to meet the of the standards in the RCOG guidelines, “The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion“, which include waiting times and provision for counselling
DWCA changed its name to Doctors for Choice UK on 27 April 2018, the 50th anniversary of the implementation of the 1967 Abortion Act.