Image 1970: The Vancouver to Ottawa Abortion Caravan In 1970 a group of Feminist embarked on a caravan tour from Vancouver to Ottawa to protest the lack of rights to access to abortion in Canada.
Image Gallardón's Law would force women to give birth Proposed new Spanish abortion law which would force women to give birth stuns womens' organisations.
Image Pope embraces the No Choice March in Rome Pro-life supporters march in Rome on Mother's Day (March 12); meanwhile a hundred of left-wing activist also rallied to remember Giorgiana Masi,…
Image Women are Denied the Right to Abortion in Jesi, Ancona Women are de facto denied the right to abortion in the hospital of Jesi (a small town near Ancona),…
Image The rise of the British culture warriors This post was prompted by Joseph Kay's "bodies as a site of class struggle." As well as raising some interesting questions regarding the right to…
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.
Bodies on the frontline Leaflet produced for a demonstration in 1986, against a proposed law to reduce access to abortion.
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.
Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.
Image Nicaragua set to outlaw abortion Nicaragua is expected to approve a law that outlaws all forms of abortion today.
