The article promotes Marie Stopes- with no mention of the recent damning CQC reports highlighting failures in safety, consent and safeguarding. 

Metro.co.uk, the online version of the UK's fourth largest newspaper, has published an article called "Here's what you need to know if you need to have an abortion".

The piece outlines the process of booking an appointment and what to expect. However, under the title "having your abortion" it makes no mention of what the actual procedure (or range of procedures) entails.

Neutral coverage?

It gives no details of alternatives to abortion, instead saying "if you do decide this isn't the right time for a baby- for whatever reason- that's 100% your decision, and whatever your reasons are, they are valid." The journalist, Ashitha Nagesh, admits that "some people feel like an emotional wreck, weeping uncontrollably in the recovery chair", post-abortion, but the only counselling she points to is that offered by the abortion providers themselves.

No problem with Marie Stopes 

Marie Stopes is recommended along with BPAS as an abortion provider, with no mention of the recent suspension of services at Marie Stopes, which was followed by a damning CQC report highlighting failures in safety, consent and safeguarding.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/01/heres-what-you-need-to-know-if-you-need-to-have-an-abortion-6341388/

"Dishonest advertising"

Dr Anthony McCarthy of SPUC said "The article in the Metro, which amounts to no more than crude advertising for the abortion industry, is contemptuous of readers of the Metro, and of all those who have suffered from abortion.  The article ignores the huge amount of evidence for sometimes devastating long-term consequences of abortion, while promoting 'abortion providers' such as Marie Stopes, which recently had to shut down its clinics in the light of investigations into appalling negligence towards the women it claims to care for. Readers should protest the Metro's dishonest advertising of an industry responsible not only for the destruction of unborn lives but for truly adverse effects on mothers and on fathers."

U.S judge blocks abortion related Obamacare requirements

A federal judge in Texas has issued a court order barring the enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare) to transgender health and abortion related services.

The judge ruled that the new policy infringes on the rights of private healthcare providers under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, as it would require medical insurance providers to cover sex change operations and abortions.

The ruling constitutes a nationwide preliminary injunction against the act. Given that the Obama administration has only two weeks left in office, it is unclear whether the government will seek to appeal the injunction.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN14L0OP

"My son's Down's syndrome does not define him"

Mother Caroline White has written in the Guardian about her son Seb, who has Down’s syndrome.

She explains how she felt "overwhelmed and weighed down by his diagnosis" but "eventually I stopped seeing Down's syndrome and realised that Seb was simply my son".

She goes on to list 10 things that a diagnosis of Down's syndrome didn't tell her about Seb, who is now eight.

http://www.theguardian.stfi.re/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/31/my-sons-downs-syndrome-does-not-define-him?sf=wdeagxv&utm_content=buffer9c455&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#aa