About this event
Join the National Women s Council on May 25th to mark the anniversary of the vote to repeal the 8th Amendment with the launch of our research paper
Accessing Abortion in Ireland: Meeting the Needs of Every Woman, and a wide-ranging panel discussion on abortion in Ireland since the introduction of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 (ToP) in 2019.
Accessing Abortion in Ireland: Meeting the Needs of Every Woman, commissioned by the National Women’s Council and authored by
Dr Sinead Kennedy, explores the provision of abortion services in Ireland under the ToP Act. At this webinar Dr Sinead Kennedy will present this research examining women’s and pregnant people’s experience and access of abortion services as well as providers’ experience of service delivery.
India’s amended abortion law still gives doctors, not women, the final say in terminating pregnancy
The liberalised law allows termination of pregnancy up to 24 weeks, but only for special categories of vulnerable women. Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters
The terms for abortion have been liberalised in India after an amended
law received the President’s assent on March 25. But gender and reproductive rights activists are disappointed that the law still does not recognise abortion as a woman’s choice that can be sought on-demand, as is the
practice in 73 countries.
These are the key changes that the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021, has brought in:
Amended Abortion Law Still Gives Doctors, Not Women, The Final Say indiaspend.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiaspend.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Access to Medical Abortion and Self-Managed Abortion: FIGO and Partners Share Key Insights with the United Nations
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On 18th March 2021, FIGO – in collaboration with the Centre for Reproductive Rights and Ipas – organised a discussion on ‘Access to medical abortion and self –managed abortion. Key insights from health workers and human rights advocates: on guaranteeing human rights’ with United Nations treaty monitoring committee members and Special Procedures mandate holders.
These elected UN experts have a responsibility to interpret human rights treaties, which includes monitoring states’ compliance with their legally binding human rights obligations and recommendations from UN experts. This includes reproductive rights and access to safe abortion. The UN experts do this by conducting fact-finding missions and issuing progress reports and statements, in addition to conducting review meetings with governments to assess their progress.
Credit.Damon Winter/The New York Times
The anti-abortion movement was never going to stop with overturning Roe v. Wade.
For years, Republicans have argued that their goal was to return the issue of abortion to the states. At no point was this believable; since 1984, the Republican Party platform has called for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Having spent decades denouncing abortion as a singular moral evil, the anti-abortion movement will not be content to return to a pre-Roe status quo, where abortion was legal in some places but not others.
So it’s not that surprising that, with the possible end of Roe in sight, some opponents of abortion are thinking about how to ban it nationally. Last week my colleague Ross Douthat wrote about a debate within the anti-abortion movement sparked by a highly abstruse article by the Notre Dame professor John Finnis in the Catholic journal First Things. Finnis argues that fetuses are persons under the 14th Amendment, and that the Su