‘Considering Abortion? Free Pregnancy Testing Information & Advisory Service, Quick & Confidential.’ If you read this statement in an advert, for a service listed under ‘Abortion Clinics’, what would you think? If you were pregnant and needed advice, you might give them a ring. Unfortunately, what the Albany Women’s Centre, who posted this advert at…
In the pro-choice movement, it is fairly common to be told that we are promoting murder, eugenics, racism and social ills of all kinds. In some ways it’s easy to dismiss this kind of accusation: most reasonable people, in the UK at least, broadly support a woman’s right to choose abortion and are able to…
The European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday that the human rights of a woman from Ireland had been violated when she was forced to travel to the UK to obtain an abortion in its long awaited decision in the ‘ABC’ case. This is a legally binding judgement and the Irish government will now be…