Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
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MPs last week passed the second reading of David Alton's controversial Private Member's Bill to reduce the abortion limit to 18 weeks. The votes were 296 to 251, a majority of 45.
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If Home Secretary Douglas Hurd's attempt to defeat Tory backbencher Richard Shepherd's bid to reform the Official Secret's Act succeeds, it could speed up the political passage of David Alton's Abortion amendment bill.
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Bleak outlook lor 1988 at Great Ormond Street Hospital - it's the year when the copyright runs out for M Barrie's evergreen Peter Pan. The royalties, donated by the author to the hard-pressed hospital, will no longer be coming in.