Remembering Viscount Janric Craigavon
Janric Craig, third Viscount Craigavon, died on 31 March 2025. He was a founding trustee of the Progress Educational Trust and a committed trustee of the Birth Control Trust. Ann Furedi pays tribute...
Ann Furedi
Former CEO of BPAS and former director of BCT
Ann Furedi was previously chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, director of the Birth Control Trust, and director of policy and communications at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is author of the book The Moral Case for Abortion: A Defence of Reproductive Choice (buy from Amazon UK), and of the pamphlet Abortion and the Freedom to Forge Our Own Fate (available here).
BioNews Articles by Ann Furedi
Starting or ending a pregnancy: why the British Pregnancy Advisory Service is doing both
This month, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) announced plans to open a new clinic in London to provide fertility services...
Trust women to decide the right time to have a family
I was recently struck by the extent of media interest in the rising age at which women have babies - and the obnoxious arrogance of some of the related commentaries. Everyone, it seems, has a view on the right time for a woman to have a family...
HFEA: time for rebirth or burial?
From March 2002 until June 2003, I worked for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) - first as Director of Communications and then I acquired responsibility for policy and governance...
Keeping abortion decisions in context
The revelation in the UK's Sunday Times newspaper (6 June 2010) that some assisted conceptions end in abortion was bound to cause consternation....