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YOUNG women will be given cards about how to access abortions in a scheme launched today.

One of the biggest abortion providers is also promoting a hotline number and a text service to supplywomen with details of their nearest clinic.

Bpas, formerly the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, is issuing contact cards for keeping in purses and handbags.

The independent charity, which carries out about 50,000 abortions each year mostly under contract for the NHS, launched its pilot campaign in London today to raise awareness that it is quicker for women to contact abortion clinics direct rather than go through their GP.

It said the campaign - Unplanned Pregnancy: Your Choices - is aimed at women who are already facing the problem and gives advice on carrying a child to term as well as on abortion.

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The cards have a tear-off section, leaving the woman with an unbranded helpline number on one side and a design only on the other for the purpose of discretion.

Pro-life groups immediately criticised the campaign as a moneymaking exercise to drum up business for abortion clinics.

Michaela O'Sullivan of Life said the campaign trivialised abortion.

She said: "It is extraordinary and irresponsible because young women will use this as an easy way out and there is no mention of counselling.

"This is about clinics making money. If the client doesn't pay, the taxpayer does and this is about directing more clients to the clinics."

As part of the campaign, information can be sent direct to mobile phones with details of a confidential phone number and address of the nearest clinic.

A self-referral booking line allows women to make appointments without having to see Replica Chloe Handbags their GP first.

Ms O'Sullivan said this was dangerous and a shocking disregard for women's sexual health.

Bpas chief executive Ann Furedi hit back, saying it was "ludicrous" to suggest

such a charitywas out to make money

and that the organisation worked to reduce the need for abortion.

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She said: "We are a not-for-profit organisation.

We are trying to reduce the number of abortions but where women have unplanned pregnancies they will need access to help and advice as quickly as possible.

Where a woman chooses to continue the pregnancy we are more than happy to congratulate her and refer her for antenatal care."

Ms Furedi said the Bpas referral scheme encourages women to contact a clinic directly in order to save time.

She said: "There may be good reasons why a woman does not want to contact her family doctor to discuss her unplanned pregnancy or to ask about abortion.

"Sometimes the GP system cannot give women access to specialist services promptly enough. Appropriate treatment advice must be made available as soon as it is requested."

From today GP surgeries, family planning centres, clubs and bars will carry the campaign material.

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