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spiked issue: Abortion
-- Tue 14 May --
We absolutely support the right to choose
The president of Physicians for Reproductive Health responds to Ann Furedi’s spiked essay on abortion and choice.
by Jodi Magee
-- Wed 24 April --
Remaking the case for a woman’s right to choose
ESSAY: In replacing the ideal of reproductive choice with ‘reproductive justice’, feminists underestimate women’s capacity for autonomy.
by Ann Furedi
-- Wed 24 April --
Abortion: make the case in public, not in court
Following the Savita tragedy, Irish pro-choice activists should be engaging with the public, not cosying up to judges.
by Jason Walsh
-- Wed 24 April --
Savita case exposes the cruelty of Irish law
It’s time to face down the Irish Constitution and its bizarre elevation of ‘fetal rights’ over women’s rights.
by Barbara Hewson
-- Tue 22 January --
The ‘generation war’ over abortion rights
ESSAY: Among abortion activists, there’s a worrying shift from supporting choice to demanding ‘justice’.
by Jennie Bristow
-- Thu 3 January --
Why Ireland’s new abortion law is mad
It is not a step forward for women's liberation to provide abortions for women who claim to be suicidal.
by Jason Walsh
-- Mon 3 December --
Fetal rights: a fatal obsession?
The death of a miscarrying woman in an Irish hospital suggests the authorities there have lost the plot.
by Barbara Hewson
-- Wed 17 October --
‘Abortion is a
very civilised thing’
In a new WORLDbytes film, Ellie Lee puts the case for making abortion a personal choice, not a legal matter.
by Saleha Ali
-- Tue 25 September --
Sarah Catt should never have been convicted
The case of a Leeds woman jailed for eight years for inducing her own labour raises some serious questions.
by Barbara Hewson
-- Thu 20 September --
Right to protest, or just plain wrong?
Anti-abortionists should have absolute freedom of speech. But that doesn’t mean they can do ‘pavement counselling’ outside abortion clinics.
by Ann Furedi
-- Mon 19 March --
How anti-abortionists are upping the ante
ESSAY: Heated debate about abortion is good - but pro-lifers' new tactic of harassing individual women and doctors is cowardly and wrong.
by Jennie Bristow
-- Tue 6 December --
When it comes to abortion, why wait?
Women who choose to terminate a pregnancy have a moral obligation to do it as early as possible.
by William Saletan
-- Mon 28 November --
Abortion: how late is ‘too late’?
Policymakers should butt out of late abortion and trust women to work out what’s in their best interests.
by Ann Furedi
-- Thu 21 July --
Save the Jews: don’t have an abortion
By imploring women to help boost the number of Jews, Israeli anti-abortion activists politicise personal choices.
by Nathalie Rothschild
-- Wed 1 June --
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
Giving Life a seat on the Sexual Health Forum is a bit like including Jehovah’s Witnesses on a panel to discuss blood-transfusion services.
by Ann Furedi
-- Thu 5 May --
It is right that society offers ‘Ground E’ abortions
The anti-choice lobby’s obsession with abortions for fetal abnormality reveals its vindictive use and abuse of statistics.
by Jennie Bristow
-- Thu 3 March --
Late abortion: the new clash in the Choice Wars
Ann Furedi says Philadelphia’s ‘Baby Butcher’ scandal shows exactly why we need a principled defence of abortion – as late as necessary.
by Ann Furedi
-- Thu 17 February --
Our 10-year struggle to improve abortion care
‘Not so much Yes Minister as The Thick of It…’ Ann Furedi of BPAS reports on her fight with health officials for sensible abortion services.
by Ann Furedi
-- Mon 14 February --
How Britain’s abortion law punishes women
The UK High Court will rule today on whether women should be free to carry out ‘early medical abortion’ at home. Jennie Bristow reports.
by Jennie Bristow
-- Thu 13 January --
Let’s make it easier to take the abortion pill
BPAS’ chief executive explains why she is taking the UK Department of Health to court over early medical abortion.
by Ann Furedi
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