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Abortion Delays for BMI 40+?

I was surprised to discover today that being larger doesn’t only affect your maternity and antenatal care. It can lead to abortion delays too. The British Pregnancy Advice Service (the UK’s leading abortion care service) released this briefing paper. It highlights the number of women forced to continue pregnancies, some of which are against medical […]

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Fed Up With Lazy Journalism

Another day, another article which blames obese mums and completely misrepresents the research it purports to be reporting on – lazy journalism. Thanks Helen McArdle ‘Health Correspondent’ for The Herald @HMcardleHT, for yet more scaremongering claptrap. Here’s the article: Let’s begin with the headline: “Offspring of obese mothers prone to childhood obesity because they develop ‘fatty

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