Legal issues in healthcare.

  1. The English law concerning abortion amounts to an uneasy but effective compromise balancing the fundamental rights of the parties to the abortion process. Discuss. Some resource links that might be useful: https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/sex-selective-abortions-are-discriminatory-and-should-be-bann-1 - An article from the Council of Europe on sex-selective abortion.   2. The medicalisation of best interests when determining the course of treatment for seriously ill children has gone too far. Ultimately it should be the parents who make the final decision as to what approach should be taken regarding the treatment of their children. Critically examine this statement with particular reference to the cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and Tafida Raqueeb.