Events

Pills in Practice: Is Abortion and Contraception Policy Meeting Women's Needs?

British Pregnancy Advisory Service
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE, UK
11 May 2012 - 9am-5pm

This one-day public conference will bring together clinicians, academics, advocates and service providers from the UK and internationally to discuss the future of abortion and contraception.

Sessions at this event will include:

• Home Abortions - Do We Medicalise Too Much?;

• Contraception - LARCs and Their Limits;

• Will the Pill Survive a Century?;

• Prenatal Screening, Women's Decisionmaking and Choice of Termination Method;

• Abortion Doctors - Is There a Crisis in Training and Recruitment?;

• 'Late' Abortions - Towards a Woman-Centred Service.

Speakers at this event will include:

• Dawn Clark (Psychologist, the London Research Centre for Therapeutic Education);

• Christian Fiala (Medical Director, Gynmed Clinic for Contraception and Abortion, Austria);

• Jane Fisher (Director, Antenatal Results and Choices);

• Joanne Fletcher (Consultant Nurse Gynaecology, Sheffield);

• Ann Furedi (Chief Executive, BPAS);

• Kate Greasley (Dphil candidate in law, New College, Oxford);

• Kate Guthrie (Clinical Director, Hull and East Riding Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Partnership);

• Kinga Jelinska (Project Manager, Women on Web, the Netherlands);

• Ellie Lee (Reader in Social Policy and Director, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, University of Kent);

• Lara Marks (author, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill);

• Stephen Robson (Professor of Fetal Medicine, Newcastle University);

• Sam Rowlands (Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust and University of Warwick);

• Raha Shojai (North University Hospital of Marseilles, France);

• Helen Statham (Senior Research Associate, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge);

• James Trussell (Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University; visiting professor, the Hull York Medical School);

• Kaye Wellings (Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine);

• Beverly Winikoff (President, Gynuity Health Projects, USA).

Attendance fees range from £35 to £125. To register, use the links on this webpage or contact the British Pregnancy Advisory Service at or on +44 (0)20 7612 0206.

Further details of this event are available on the Pills in Practice website.