Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the court case that made abortion legal in the USA. In honour of this day we are posting a video that explains some of the facts about who really gets abortions (not teenagers) and why (poverty and already having too many children to look after), in ...
So you need to be less pregnant than you are at the moment. First thing’s first: find an abortion provider. Back in my day, we used the Yellow Pages for that. It was a giant book with business listings, which could be balanced on the knees. It contained the addresses and phone numbers of florists, ...
We told you last week that there have been some rumbling in PEI about needing better access to abortion. It’s the only province that doesn’t offer them locally — two doctors need to give permission, and then a woman has to go to a different province. The only exception is women who have “serious medical ...
In the United States, where abortion rights are under direct attack, The Doula Project is promoting services for women who are terminating their pregnancies. The remit of a doula is to provide non-medical support through the latter stages of pregnancy and birth. American States have passed over eighty laws this year restricting a woman’s right ...
Very few things make me nauseous just by reading about them. This one succeeded. Next week the American Congress will vote on the “Protect Life Act.” Nicknamed the “Let Women Die Act,” this bill would allow federally funded hospitals to deny abortions to women even if not having them would cause them to die. The ...
Finally, we are seeing some sense in the UK government. Government leaders have said they will not support a bill that could strip women of access to non-judgmental and unbiased pre-abortion counselling. The controversial bill proposes “independent abortion counselling,” meaning expert reproductive health charities, like Marie Stopes and British Pregnancy Advisory Service, could end up ...
Since the beginning of 2011, nearly a dozen laws have been passed that limit a woman’s right to an abortion. Women are fighting back, but they need help. There seems to be a lack of passion and fury in today’s reproductive rights activists, and there may be a reason why: we don’t know what is ...
I am happy to report that defunding Planned Parenthood is illegal and unconstitutional! This was declared by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Medicaid Administrator Don Berwick. Indiana signed into law the defunding of Planned Parenthood last month, but in a letter sent to Indiana’s Medicaid director, Berwick rejected Indiana’s proposed ...
Finally Ireland is taking a step in the right direction for women’s reproductive rights by selling emergency contraception over-the-counter. Women will have to be interviewed by pharmacy staff in a consultation room before they can get it to ensure they are aware of how to take it and the risks involved. Each pharmacy will be ...
Advocates in the UK were fighting to allow women to take the abortion pill at home, away from doctors’ offices, in an effort to empower women and give them more choice in their health care, but this right has been rejected by the courts. Medical abortion is done in the first nine weeks of pregnancy ...
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