Ann Furedi

Ann Furedi has been CEO of British Pregnancy Advisory Service since 2003. Before then she was Director of Policy & Press for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the UK’s regulator of embryo research and assisted conception. Bpas specialises in later abortions and provides almost 70% of all those that take place in Britain.

Furedi has written extensively in defence of women’s autonomy of reproductive choice. She currently chairs the Voice for Choice coalition of UK pro-choice organisations.

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Saturday 31 October 2009, 1.30pm Lecture Theatre 1
Whose Right to Choose? Choice, ethics and regulation in 21st-century reproduction



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