abortion
Opposing US anti-abortionists in England - European Counter Network
Report on demonstrations against the 1993 visit of a group of US anti-abortionists to the UK.
Members of the US anti-abortion group Rescue America have been in London for a week of action with British and Irish supporters. Rescue have been at the centre of increasingly violent protests at American abortion clinics. This year there have already been 53 incidents of violence including arson, bombings, vandalism, and assaults.
Bodies on the frontline
Leaflet produced for a demonstration in 1986, against a proposed law to reduce access to abortion.
If David Alton is successful in his attempt to reduce the maximum time limit for abortions from 28 to 18 weeks it will mean misery for thousands of women. If this had been in effect as law in 1986, 5665 women would have been forced to give birth to unwonted children.
A doctor's right to choose
Protests in Belfast in support of women's right to choose
The Alliance for Choice in Northern Ireland is heading up a campaign for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. On Wednesday 22nd there will be a vote on an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in Westminster to extend the Act to NI - 41 years after its introduction in the rest of the UK.
Organise!, political activists, and pro-choice campaigners will be staging a series or protests in the next week in the run up to the Westminster vote on the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to NI.
Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings
Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.
Dilemmas of a Bleeding Heart
Nicaragua set to outlaw abortion
Nicaragua is expected to approve a law that outlaws all forms of abortion today.
Leaders from the Roman Catholic church have helped to draft legislation outlawing abortion in all cases, including cases of rape and abortion to save the pregnant woman's life.
