Abortion Rights welcomes clear, accurate information on TV and radio
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
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.
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.
Lobby your MP for free NHS funded care for NI women
Diane Abbott MP has tabled Early Day Motion 625 to show parliamentary support for a call to allow Northern Irish women access to free abortion care on the NHS in Britain. Please contact your MP to ask them to add their support.
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.
In 2008, the pro-choice movement stepped up to meet its biggest challenge in a generation. Our Annual Report shows how Abortion Rights was central to defeating a serious parliamentary attempt to drive back women's abortion rights; placing the call for improved rights, including for the women of Northern Ireland, high on the political agenda; and celebrating 40 years of the 1967 Abortion Act in Britain.
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.
Diane Abbott MP has tabled 
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.
In 2008, the pro-choice movement stepped up to meet its biggest challenge in a generation. Our 
