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Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year |
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A major new report released this week shows that increases in global contraceptive use have helped decrease the number of abortions worldwide, but for those living under restrictive abortion laws, unsafe and harmful procedures remain the only option; killing an estimated 70,000 women every year. |
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Nicaragua's total abortion ban: Amnesty International reports |
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Amnesty International has released a hard-hitting report detailing the shocking consequences of Nicaragua’s absolute ban on abortion. |
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Abortion Rights supports statutory Sex and Relationships Education in Schools |
Read the full text of Abortion Rights’ response to the Department for Children Schools and Families curriculum reform consultation on Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in English schools.
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Westminster Hall debate on abortion law in Northern Ireland |
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Martin Salter's Early Day Motion on Abortion Law in Northern Ireland has been scheduled for a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday 15th July 9.30am - 11.00.am.
This is a welcome opportunity for MPs to raise awareness of the continuing inequality that women from Northern Ireland face and to seek a response from the Government to the points raised.
It is important that as many supportive MPs as possible attend the debate to help raise awareness of this continuing inequality, so please email pro-choice MPs and encourage them to go along. |
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Abortion Law in Northern Ireland: new film launched |
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Discrimination and Denial: Abortion Law in Northern Ireland is a new powerful short film exposing what happens to women in Northern Ireland with a crisis pregnancy. Funded and produced by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and launched by fpa (Family Planning Association), Discrimination and Denial features interviews with leading Northern Irish health professionals and politicians. The film is a hard hitting expose illustrating the difficulties not just for women, but for health professionals trying to provide quality healthcare in a state that doesn’t offer women a legal and safe abortion. |
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Make Noise for Free Choice |
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Make Noise for Free Choice Campaign: Sign the petition!
It is time for the EU to secure the right to free, safe and legal abortions and render it a human right. The Swedish Liberal party has launched a new initiative to give the women of Europe the right to choose an abortion and establish abortion as a human right. The aim is to collect one million signatures by 2010.
A cornerstone of the European Union is to work for gender equality and health. Therefore, women who lack the access to free, legal and safe abortions in the EU-countries such as Ireland, Malta and Poland, can no longer be ignored. The governments of these countries must be put under pressure.
Do you want to put pressure on the European power holders? Join 2579 others in collecting one million signatures for the right to free abortion.
Sign the Make Noise for Free Choice petition
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Abortion Rights welcomes clear, accurate information on TV and radio |
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Welcoming the Committee of Advertising Practice announcement for a 12 week public consultation on lifting the restriction on condom advertising before 9pm and allowing abortion services to advertise on radio and television |
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Please join Abortion Rights |
 Abortion Rights is the only national grass roots membership-based democratic campaign working to defend and extend women's rights to abortion. We need your financial support to provide a bulwark against those who repeatedly attack women's fundamental reproductive rights and to be an effective champion of improved rights.
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Read Ireland's Hidden Diaspora |
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Every year, approximately 5,000 women from the Republic of Ireland and 1,500 from Northern Ireland cross the Irish Sea to have an abortion in a British clinic. They come and go in secret, like women ‘on the run’, bearing a terrible burden of shame for two societies in denial. |
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Obama congratulated for overturning global abortion funding ban |
 President Obama has been widely congratulated by women's groups and family planning organisations for overturning the ban on U.S. federal funding for providing abortion care or counselling abroad.
President Obama's executive order reversing the Bush administration policy marks a transformation of US politics on the issue of abortion. US abortion politics has had a significant negative impact on the global debate on abortion over the past eight years including in Britain. |
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