Antony Lempert

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Antony Lempert spent much of his professional working life as a rural GP principal in Powys, Wales, from which he retired in 2025. From 2008, he coordinated and chaired the Secular Medical Forum (SMF), giving regular talks, media interviews, and participating in debates, particularly in the areas of sexual and reproductive health freedoms at risk from religious privilege and interference. Following the SMF's inclusion in the National Secular Society (NSS) in 2017, he has remained the lead for the NSS Health Special Expertise Network and is an NSS council member. Antony was a longstanding representative of the British Medical Association (BMA) where he regularly participated in policy-forming ethical and medico-political debates and acted as an expert GP witness in a High Court Right to Die case. He continues to teach medical ethics to postgraduate doctors training to be GPs, and is a trustee of the charity 15 Square, which offers information and support about all things foreskin. He also chairs the Health Policy Working Group of a national political party. He cycles and sings with The Men From Off, a fairly close men’s harmony group, though not at the same time.

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