Dame Catherine Lilian "Cathy" Warwick is a Scottish

midwife A midwife is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialization known as midwifery. The education and training for a midwife concentrates extensively on the care of women throughout their lifespan; co ...

, trade union leader, and abortion rights activist. She has been the Chief Executive of the

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from 200
until 2017
and is also Chair of Trustees of

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, one of the UK's leading providers of abortion services. She received a nursing degree from the

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in 1975, and completed a one-year midwifery course at

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in 1976. She is an Honorary Professor of Midwifery at King's College London School of Midwifery. She was appointed a

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for services to healthcare in the

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and elevated to DBE in the

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. She was ranked sixth in the Health Service Journal's list of Clinical Leaders in 2015. In October 2014, she led the first ever strike by midwives in the United Kingdom. Warwick is also a feminist who has espoused the belief that women should be able to make their own choices regardless of what those choices may be.

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