{"id":13517,"date":"2016-12-12T13:44:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=13517"},"modified":"2016-12-12T13:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:44:26","slug":"funding-cuts-may-lead-to-rise-in-pregnancies-and-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/funding-cuts-may-lead-to-rise-in-pregnancies-and-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding cuts may lead to rise in pregnancies and abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u00a0The UK government announced cuts in public health services. Doctors have advised that this might lead to a rise in abortions and pregnancies.<\/h3>\n<h4>Reporter: Micaela Kolischer<\/h4>\n<p>The cut is believed to jeopardise women\u2019s chance of getting a variety of 15 types of contraceptives, provided by GPs in the UK, also known long-acting reversible methods.<\/p>\n<p>GP Anne Connolly visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-38250580\">BBC&#8217;S\u00a0<em>Victoria Derbyshire<\/em> show<\/a> today and said: \u2018\u2019We\u2019ve seen fantastic reductions in teen pregnancy over the last 10 years. One of the mayor factors has been improved education to primary care to the contraceptive services, a lot of extra training but particularly a focus on the much more reliable, much more cost efficient long-acting reversible methods\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Contraception in Britain, specifically the morning after pill costs over \u00a330, while in other countries in the rest of Europe, it costs five times less, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/morning-after-pill-british-women-forced-to-pay-five-times-more-than-european-peers-a7019026.html\">The Independent<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, the morning after pill is not the only cost women endure. Before buying it, they need a compulsory consultation with a pharmacist, which would stop many women from buying the pill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/11\/29\/calls-slash-price-morning-after-pill-sell-shelf-like-aspirin\/\">The Telegraph<\/a> explained. Still, some medical professionals suggested that consultations give women the ability of becoming informed about STD&#8217;s and other possible hazards.<\/p>\n<p>This has sparked outrage on social media, with many women expressing their concern:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13519\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-12-at-1.40.15-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-12-at-1-40-15-pm\" width=\"696\" height=\"310\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13520\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-12-at-1.40.08-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-12-at-1-40-08-pm\" width=\"721\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The UK government announced cuts in public health services. Doctors have advised that this might lead to a rise in abortions and pregnancies. Reporter: Micaela Kolischer The cut is believed to jeopardise women\u2019s chance of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":13778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,134],"tags":[1513,4450,4878,6520,6538,6753,6756,6964],"class_list":["post-13517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uknews","tag-contraception","tag-news","tag-pill","tag-twitter","tag-uk","tag-voice-of-london","tag-voiceoflondon","tag-womens-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}