History A-Level
Reproductive rights and healthcare
What Reproductive rights and healthcare means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Reproductive rights and healthcare
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Marie Stopes opened family-planning clinics from 1921, the NHS in 1948 provided free healthcare, the contraceptive pill from 1961 enabled family planning and the Abortion Law Reform Act 1967 legalised abortion in certain cases.
Topics that use Reproductive rights and healthcare
- Paper 3, Option 39.2: Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882–2004 - 1 Changing patterns of women’s lives within the family and in the world of work (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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