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Chapter 5 Key facts checklists
- Abortion is a contentious area of medical law and generates protracted and polarised ethical debate.
- Abortion is a criminal offence under the Offences against the Person Act 1861.
- The Abortion Act 1967 provides defences for doctors who act in accordance with the Abortion Act 1967 in certain circumstances.
- Actions for prenatal harm fall under the headings of wrongful birth, wrongful conception, prenatal injury, and wrongful life.