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Jodi Magee
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.
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| Wednesday 24 April 2013 |
Ann Furedi
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.
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| Wednesday 24 April 2013 |
Jason Walsh
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.
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| Wednesday 24 April 2013 |
Barbara Hewson
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.
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| Tuesday 22 January 2013 |
Jennie Bristow
The ‘generation war’ over abortion rights
ESSAY: Among abortion activists, there’s a worrying shift from supporting choice to demanding ‘justice’.
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| Thursday 3 January 2013 |
Jason Walsh
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.
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| Monday 3 December 2012 |
Barbara Hewson
Fetal rights: a fatal obsession?
The death of a miscarrying woman in an Irish hospital suggests the authorities there have lost the plot.
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| Wednesday 17 October 2012 |
Saleha Ali
‘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.
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| Tuesday 25 September 2012 |
Barbara Hewson
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.
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| Thursday 20 September 2012 |
Ann Furedi
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.
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| Monday 19 March 2012 |
Jennie Bristow
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.
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| Tuesday 6 December 2011 |
William Saletan
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.
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| Monday 28 November 2011 |
Ann Furedi
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.
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| Thursday 21 July 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
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.
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| Wednesday 1 June 2011 |
Ann Furedi
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.
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| Thursday 5 May 2011 |
Jennie Bristow
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.
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| Thursday 3 March 2011 |
Ann Furedi
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.
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| Thursday 17 February 2011 |
Ann Furedi
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.
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| Monday 14 February 2011 |
Jennie Bristow
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.
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| Thursday 13 January 2011 |
Ann Furedi
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.
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