Arizona latest state to ban abortion
A woman’s right to choose to terminate their pregnancy lies at the heart of the liberation struggle. Not the Church, not the state, women must decide their fate!
Abortion laws still criminalising women’s healthcare
‘Every child a wanted child; every mother a willing mother’
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Roe v Wade overturned: women say—’we will not go back!’
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Finally, they have done it. On June 24, after fifty years of a
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Texas abortion ban is a class issue
By Marcus Otono (Nashville, Tennessee) Texas has become the testing ground for a new approach to the nearly 50 year-long
Poland: Mass protests and strikes against abortion ban
Mass protests in Poland for abortion rights.
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Labour leadership contest: defend women’s right to choose
Urte March responds to Rebecca Long-Bailey’s comments on abortion and religious education.
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Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage Finally Legal in Northern Ireland
At midnight on 21 October, abortions and same-sex marriage were legalised in Northern Ireland. The new law was passed in Westminster rather than Stormont as the devolved administration hasn’t sat since January 2017 amid political deadlock. The legislation, proposed as an amendment by Labour MP Stella Creasey and passed by 332 votes to 99, was the culmination of a campaign by backbench MPs and women and LGBT rights organisations to bring civil rights in NI in line with Britain.
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USA: Our bodies – our choice
By Mekdela Ejigu THE limited legal abortion and women’s reproductive rights available in the United States exist in a permanent
Defend a woman’s right to choose
By Ella Mertens WHETHER in Chile or Ireland, Germany or Poland – all over the world – women are protesting
Ireland: Abortion Rights Campaign secures referendum on Eighth Amendment
Escalate the struggle for safe, legal and free access to abortion for women across Ireland and the Six Counties.
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Women on the frontline
By Joy Macready WOMEN continue to face fierce austerity attacks on welfare, jobs, trade union rights, education, healthcare and childcare.
We need to talk about abortion differently
Joy Macready reviews Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Free abortion on demand
Joy Macready reports on the growing backlash against a women’s right to choose In September, a woman was jailed for
