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Essential reading

Abortion Act 1967. London: The National Archives [Accessed September 2019]. 

Knight M, Nair M, Tuffnell D, Kenyon S, Shakespeare J, Brocklehurst P, Kurinczuk JJ (Eds.) on behalf of MBRRACE-UK. Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care - Surveillance of maternal deaths in the UK 2012-14 and lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2009-14. Oxford: National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford 2016.

Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945. London: The National Archives [Accessed September 2019]. 

Davis A. 2,665 cases of abortion. A clinical survey. BMJ 1950;2:123–130.

Abortion Statistics, England and Wales: 2018. London: Department of Health and Social Care [Accessed September 2019].  

Guidance in Relation to Requirements of the Abortion Act 1967. London: Department of Health 2014 [Accessed September 2019]. 

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. London: The National Archives [Accessed September 2019]. 

Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929. London: The National Archives [Accessed September 2019]. 

Leges Henrici Primi, Laws of Henry I, c. 1115. Wikisource: Wikisource contributors. 09 September 2019 [Accessed September 2019]. 

Lord Ellenboroughs’s Act 1803. Wikisource: Wikisource contributors. 13 September 2019 [Accessed September 2019]. 

Offences Against the Person Act 1861. London: The National Archives [Accessed September 2019]. 

Parish TN. A thousand cases of abortion. BJOG 1935;42:1107–21.

Rex v Bourne [1939] 1 KB 687 [Accessed September 2019]. 

British and Irish Legal Information Institute. Royal College of Nursing of the UK v Department of Health and Social Security 1981 [Accessed September 2019].