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Portugal tightens abortion laws, forcing women to pay to end pregnancies

Women will also be required to have counselling before a termination, in a move pro-choice campaigners said was designed to ‘humiliate’ women. Portugal has tightened its abortion laws, adopting a bill aimed at making women pay to end a pregnancy and requirements for more stringent tests before the procedure. On Wednesday, the governing centre-right coalition …

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She is not a criminal. Tell Ireland to change its abortion law

She’s pregnant. Doctors say the foetus won’t survive. But Irish law says she has to carry the pregnancy to term. She was raped. Now she’s pregnant. And each day that the pregnancy continues reminds her of the horror she went through. Still, Irish law says she has to carry on. She needs an abortion, but …

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There’s a Reason Gay Marriage Is Winning, While Abortion Rights Are Losing

Are these two CULTURE wars” issues really that similar? Katha Pollitt Why are reproductive rights losing while gay rights are winning? Indiana’s attempt to enshrine opposition to gay marriage under the guise of religious freedom provoked an immediate nationwide backlash. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has allowed religious employers to refuse insurance coverage for birth control—not …

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It isn’t justice for Purvi Patel to serve 20 years in prison for an abortion

please sign the petition here Abortion is illegal in the United States. So is having a stillbirth – not officially, perhaps, but thanks to a case in Indiana, we’re halfway there. On Monday, Purvi Patel, a 33 year old woman who says that she had a miscarriage, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for …

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Lots of governmental signatures, little progress

Cairo+20: what progress has been made on women’s rights? Twenty years ago, 179 governments signed a landmark agreement that put women’s rights, empowerment and well-being at the centre of discussions about population growth and development. The outcome of the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994, moved away from the prevailing …

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