How dare they bar a doctor for saving babies?

In response to your article about Dr Dermot Kearney, who faces being struck off for prescribing progesterone to women who change their minds after starting pills-by-post terminations, I believe Dr Kearney has done everything by the book and should be allowed to continue prescribing the hormone. These women were lucky to have somebody like him who could give them the option to reverse a life-changing decision.

E. Roberts, London

If progesterone is not approved for this use, it’s not approved. There will be good reason for it.

Annie Norman, London

The ‘abortion pills by post’ was a rushed policy and only supposed to be temporary. Yet the Government is considering making this permanent. Dr Kearney tries to both save the life of the baby and treat women with the compassion and dignity that they deserve at a difficult time.

Ruth Evans, Llanelli

Pro-choice should mean exactly that. If a woman changes her mind after taking one pill, why shouldn’t she be able to take progesterone to try to save the pregnancy? What harm would a progesterone prescription do? Millions of women across the world (myself included) pop a progesterone pill every day.

F. May, Bedfordshire

What type of world are we living in when abortion clinics, which exist on the basis of a woman’s right to choose, can pressure authorities to deny that right to women when it suits them?

M. Anderson, Liverpool

I was pro-choice until I had an at-home abortion. I was given no counselling, no warning not to look, no knowledge of reversal, nothing but instructions how to carry it out. I’m not saying that abortions should be banned, but educational support and truthful information should be given to women. This has altered my life and I will never get over it.

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Here in Belgium we have a cooling-off period of a few days between consultation and the first medication to try to minimise this type of situation occurring.

Lucas Maes, Antwerp

Dr Kearney should be struck off. He is using an unapproved method to provide an outcome. This is not ethical. Imagine if these women suddenly all gave birth to disabled children, or the mother and child died.

V. Oliver, Wiltshire

No one can really predict how one might feel in any given life-changing situation when there is suddenly no turning back. Grief is an unpredictable emotion.

E. Peterson, Belfast

Taking an abortion pill then changing your mind seems a little unstable. I fear for the children that his pills have saved.

B. Clarke, Cornwall