1. As we await the release this week of the latest yearly abortion statistics, we draw your attention to this edited comment from a woman who had an abortion at bpas, and contributed to a survey on customer satisfaction reported on the bpas website.
“ … there were procedures structured in which made things easier for me, for instance during the scan, not having a viewing monitor was quite appropriate. Staff also went out of their way to help me make the most of my day’s worth of childcare, and I was able to have the consultation and the termination on the same day. Here’s yet another example of your excellence: the sandwich I requested was slightly off-menu, and it was made perfectly. It was so nice to receive. … the aggregate impact of you getting so many details so very right is what made the experience as positive as possible. …”
2. A woman who herself had an abortion alerted the ProLife Alliance to the above comment, which she found particularly upsetting. She was deeply traumatised by the operation and has written at length about her experience. These are some of her reactions:
‘I feel totally betrayed by the system that insists women have the right to choose. I am angry that the sonographer told me that it was best not to look at my baby during the scan, as I was undecided … Nobody warned me of the psychological toll – the guilt, the self-hatred, the constant crying, the inability to see or be around pregnant women, the loss of appetite, inability to sleep … Had I seen my baby on the screen during my scan I do not believe that I would have, could have aborted it.’
Is abortion really just a question of aggregate impact and the right sandwich filling …
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May 26th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Should it even be allowed that a consultation and termination take place on the same day? Even getting a tatto you are generally advised to allow some time to lapse before deciding to have it and actually letting the needle touch your skin.
Only those at bpas who composed this fictional testimony of a fictional woman and her fictional abortion would deem it a good thing that abortion and consultation could be taking place on the same day.
May 31st, 2009 at 9:57 pm
A Birmingham GP accused of sending her teenage daughter abroad for an illegal abortion has cost taxpayers a £600,000 NHS bill while she has been suspended.
Dr Saroj Adlakha, of Shilpa Medical Centre, in Kings Heath, has not been allowed to work for more than four-and-a-half years after she was suspended from the medical register by the General Medical Council.
But information disclosed to the Liberal Democrats under Freedom of Information Act requests shows that South Birmingham Primary Care Trust (PCT) has paid the doctor £600,000 while suspended – one of the highest amounts of those payments in the UK.
South Birmingham PCT has said Dr Adlakha’s payments included cover of two locum doctors for patients while the doctor was unable to work.
Dr Adlakha, of Somerset Road, Edgbaston, and her daughter Shilpa Abrol, were charged with conspiracy to commit child destruction abroad after the GP allegedly arranged for the then 18-year-old to have an illegal late abortion in Barcelona at 31 weeks into her pregnancy, although the legal limit is 22 in Spain.
Prosecutors dropped a criminal case against the GP in 2007 but the 62-year-old is suspended until August when a further GMC hearing takes place over the alleged abortion in 2003, abuse of her position, failure to be trustworthy and failure to give patients sufficient information and to understand risks.
Norman Lamb, Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary, said suspended GPs cost an average of £60,000 each with 28 suspended in just one year nationwide.