USA – They had abortions late in their pregnancies. These are their stories

They had abortions late in their pregnancies. These are their stories

By Jessica Ravitz, CNN
February 25, 2019

(CNN)Strangers have called them monsters, trolled them on social media and said their living children should be taken away. Their darkest moments are judged and politicized by figures who know nothing about them. They feel like involuntary pawns in an ugly, vicious game they didn't ask to play.

Women who've had abortions later in their pregnancies are "bonded in a sisterhood through a club nobody ever wanted to be a part of," one woman said.

Continued: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/25/health/abortion-late-in-pregnancy-eprise/index.html


Ireland – Anti-abortion activist faces legal action over new website

Anti-abortion activist faces legal action over new website

Ellen Coyne
February 11 2019

An anti-abortion activist is facing a legal challenge from a British abortion provider after he set up a website using a similar name.

Eamonn Murphy, who runs an unregulated Dublin crisis pregnancy agency which has given out misleading advice, had already been sent a cease and desist letter by the HSE after setting up a website under the same name as the official My Options crisis pregnancy phone line.

Continued: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anti-abortion-activist-faces-legal-action-over-new-website-g8g7l0hjc


Ireland: Abortion causes cancer, women’s centre claims


by Ellen Coyne, Catherine Sanz

September 5 2016, The Times

A Dublin-based pregnancy counselling centre has been secretly recorded advising that abortions cause breast cancer and can turn women into child abusers.

A counsellor at the clinic, which is unregulated under Irish law, was filmed giving advice to an undercover Times reporter that was described as dangerous, outrageous and inaccurate by the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Undercover footage shows techniques to pressure women out of having an abortion

The Women’s Centre on Berkeley Street in Dublin 7 advertises itself as an impartial source of advice for women who want to travel to the UK to access an abortion but has direct links to a Catholic anti-abortion group. It claims to have clinics in Cork, Galway, Sligo, London and Bristol.

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Source: The Times UK