Although women in England, Scotland and Wales are able to have abortions up to 24 weeks, abortion rights are denied to women in Northern Ireland. There is the opportunity, with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill going through Parliament, for this legal anomaly to be removed. However, the government doesn't seem to keen on this. Kate Belgrave argues that this could be because of a squalid ...

The government is accused of denying abortion rights to women in Northern Ireland as part of a deal to secure support for the controversial 42-day detention Bill. Campaigners claim that ministers are planning to thwart a bid to extend abortion rights by stopping a pro-choice amendment when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is debated in

I seemed to have dropped off Abortion Rights e-mail list, so thanks to Louise for sending this to me: For a woman’s right to choose Campaigning to defend and extend women’s abortion rights in the final stages of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 7pm Tuesday 7 October 2008 House of Commons Committee Room 10 Speakers include: Diane Abbott MP, Katy Clark MP, Katie Curtis NUS, Ev...

It seems that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will be debated again in Parliament including the amendments that liberalise abortion rights and the anti-abortion ones on the 22 October 2008. Hopefully there will protests organised. So please show your support and solidarity in liberalising and extending a woman’s right to choose. This will possibly be the

It's a shocking but telling statistic.. Repeat abortions have reached a record high, figures released today reveal. One third of women who had an abortion last year were on their second, third or even eighth termination, new figures show. The statistics will fuel the debate over whether some women are using abortion as a form of contraception. In total, there were 64,715 repeat abortions in 2...

By any standards, the practice of late-term or "partial birth" abortion is an horrific one. To be bitterly opposed to such abortions - or, indeed, any abortions -  is a completely respectable moral and political position. To regard abortion as murder and to regard the likes of George Tiller as "baby killers" is also legitimate. But to murder Tiller, to appoint oneself as judge and executioner...

From The Elliot Institute A leading researcher and expert on post-abortion issues is commending a new package of bills introduced by legislators in Michigan that aims to put an end to coerced abortions. Five women sponsored the Coercive Abortion Prevention Act, which makes it a crime to coerce a woman into an unwanted abortion. It also requires abortion clinics to ask women if they are being coerc...

Thanks to Nadine Dorries' amendment to the Health and Social Care bill, abortion rights have been discussed a great deal this week – both inside and outside of Parliament. In her cover article for this week's Spectator (out today), Mary Wakefield says that this debate has revealed a "strange and unpleasant consensus... that abortion is not just a necessary evil, but a jolly go...

Some of the activists here in the United States with me are much more pro-abortion than their American counterparts. Yesterday, however, I think their minds may have altered slightly when the fact that people can still have abortions in the eighth month of pregnancy was explained to them - and quite what partial birth abortion involves. If only anti-abortion campaigners stuck to this message initi...

The abortion law in England, Scotland and Wales is far from perfect. The unnecessary two-rule, the restrictions that prevent women who choose to do so completing medical abortions at home, the prevention of nurses and midwives providing the service. But those problems are slight compared to the situation for women in Northern Ireland, where women