Doctor Clarifies Abortion Is Legal In Malaysia

O&G specialist Dr Jamiyah Hassan describes abortion laws in Malaysia as generally grey.

By Alifah Zainuddin
12 October 2022

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 – Contrary to popular belief, termination of pregnancy or abortion has been legal in Malaysia for nearly half a decade, which has kept the number of unsafe abortions “low” in the country, according to an obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Abortion in Malaysia is generally governed by Section 312 of the Penal Code, where the law provides for safe abortion to save a woman’s life and to preserve a woman’s physical and mental health, said Prof Dr Jamiyah Hassan from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) at a recent conference.

Continued: https://codeblue.galencentre.org/2022/10/12/doctor-clarifies-abortion-is-legal-in-malaysia/

USA – The new abortion rights spokesmen: Dudes, dads, and plumbers

Campaigns have to motivate men, too.

By Rachel M. Cohen
Oct 11, 2022

At 11:30 am on June 24, less than an hour after the US Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Dave Portnoy, the controversial founder of Barstool Sports — a site dubbed the “Bible of Bro Culture” — posted a video to his 2 million followers on Twitter. “We are literally going backwards in time,” he said in a self-described emergency press conference. “It makes no sense how anybody thinks it’s their right to tell a woman what to do with her body.”

Continued: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23390955/men-pro-choice-messaging-abortion-rights

USA – Men Need to Tell Abortion Stories, Too. Here’s Mine.

BY DAN SCHWERIN
October 1, 2022

“We’re pregnant!” My wife, YJ, and I could barely believe it. It was 2018 and we had just started trying, after years of putting it off. Many of our friends had struggled to get pregnant, and we were in our late 30s, so I had prepared myself for a long, difficult process. Yet here we were, looking at a little pink line on the at-home test, the rest of our lives suddenly rushing toward us whether we were ready or not. I was thrilled – I had always wanted to be a dad. YJ was more ambivalent, nervous about giving up her independence and taking on the responsibilities of parenthood. My mother, on the other end of the phone, was over the moon. As she never tired of reminding us, she had been waiting – and waiting – to be a grandmother.

Continued: https://www.vogue.com/article/men-abortion-stories

01.10.2022

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USA – “We Believe That Access to Abortion Is a Basic Human Right”

The gutting of Roe is a galvanizing moment in American history—and one that urgently requires men to speak up. The Roe Project gathers the diverse perspectives of men united in the belief that access to reproductive health care is essential. We hope that by sharing their experiences and their points of view, we can mobilize more men to fight for abortion access.

BY THE EDITORS OF GQ
September 29, 2022

In June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion in America. Since the initial ruling, trigger laws have gone into effect in many parts of the country, criminalizing the procedure for millions. Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a bill this month that would fully ban abortion after 15 weeks on a federal level. In the wake of the Supreme Court decision, I heard from women who pointed out that most men weren't affirming support or otherwise acknowledging that this was their problem too. And as we approach the midterm elections, the stakes are high. I took that feedback seriously. We always talk about GQ as a community platform—a platform that we invite others to stand on so that they have the opportunity to be heard. The Roe Project is our way of giving the men in our community the opportunity to speak out in support of abortion rights.

Continued: https://www.gq.com/story/the-roe-project

USA – Abortion rights advocates say they need more men’s voices

“Being a part of it, supporting, listening and being active, are all things that men can and should be doing,” said a professor who specializes in law and gender.

June 5, 2022
By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — If Donovan Atterberry thought about abortion at all as a young man, it was perhaps with some vague discomfort, or a memory of the anti-abortion protesters outside the clinic that he would pass on his way to the park as a child.

It became real to him in 2013, when his girlfriend, now his wife, became pregnant with their first child together. She’d had a healthy pregnancy before, his stepdaughter, but this time genetic testing found a lethal chromosomal disorder in the developing fetus, one that would likely result in a stillbirth and also possibly put her life at risk during a delivery.

Continued: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abortion-rights-advocates-say-need-mens-voices-rcna32018

05.06.2022

New Voices for Reproductive Justice

Men Have a Lot to Lose When Roe Falls

May 26, 2022
By Andréa Becker

Matt Lavallee was in college when he learned his girlfriend was pregnant. “The news scared me,” he said, acknowledging that an unintended pregnancy was an even more daunting prospect for his girlfriend. “But there was no question that abortion was the best option for us.”

Now in his 40s, he shares this abortion story whenever he can, including on social media. If his girlfriend had been unable to obtain that abortion, he believes, both of their lives would have been drastically affected. At the time, neither of them had stable jobs or housing, and finding the $400 for the abortion was a struggle.

Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/opinion/men-abortion.html

26.05.2022

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The Stories Only Women Are Told

In the wake of S.B. 8, I’ve been thinking about the way I was raised to think about my body, and the way I will raise my son to think about his.

BY SUSAN REBECCA WHITE
NOV 04, 2021

When I was in college, I signed up to volunteer at a women’s center—to walk women from car to clinic door, in the hopes that my presence might mitigate the impact of the ever-present protesters, who zeroed in on each arriving patient with cries of, “Mom! Mom! Please don’t kill your baby!” The night before my first shift, the friend who had originally invited me to volunteer asked what had motivated me to sign up. There was a big difference, she said, between saying you were “pro-choice” and showing up at an abortion clinic at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning to prove it.

I had recently read Zora Neale Hurston’s
Their Eyes Were Watching God and was struck by the line, “You’ve got to go
there to know there.” I repeated this line to my friend, adding that while I
had always intuitively supported abortion rights, my support had been abstract.
Now, I knew that not 20 miles from my college, real women, during a time of
personal crisis, were being singled out and screamed at by strangers as they
made their way inside a medical facility for a procedure that often proved to
be both physically and psychologically painful.

Continued: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/abortion-stories-men-raising-boys.html

04.11.2021

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With Abortion Under Assault, Time for Pro-Choice Men to Break Their Silence

Anti-choice men are loud and clear on this issue, so it's time pro-choice men step up and make some noise.

OREN JACOBSON
July 19, 2021

My grandfather was one of the ten percent of Polish Jews to survive World War II. As a Jew, I understand in my bones the dehumanizing impact of a government controlling the most fundamental aspects of your life, and that understanding fuels my work as an advocate for reproductive freedom and justice.

Amid the ongoing, decades-long assault on abortion access in this country, with more than 500 new bills proposed across the country this year alone to further restrict, ban, and criminalize abortion, we often focus on the potential impact of these measures but not their cause. The truth is that people responsible for this grim reality are overwhelmingly anti-choice men in Congress and state legislatures, who have used their power in elected office to rob pregnant people of the ability to make their own reproductive decisions.

Continued: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/19/abortion-under-assault-time-pro-choice-men-break-their-silence

19.07.2021

Nigeria: Three Ideas to Bridge the SRH Access Gap for Women and Girls in Conflict Areas

26 MAY 2021
By Thelma Chioma Abeku, Nigeria Health Watch (Abuja)

Indo (not her real name) was just 15 years old when she became pregnant. Her boyfriend took her to the only general hospital in their community to terminate the pregnancy. The general hospital did not offer safe abortion services, so, the midwife advised them to formally inform their parents and make necessary arrangements to have the baby. Indo was afraid of her parents' reaction and the stigma that she would face in the community for having a child before marriage. The midwife encouraged Indo to bring her mother to the clinic so she could speak with her. But Indo and her boyfriend were still shopping for other options and since they did not have access to other credible service providers, they decided to use a local herbal concoction to terminate the pregnancy. Two days after leaving the general hospital Indo was rushed back, lifeless and bleeding profusely. It took the midwife over four hours to control the bleeding. By this time, her parents were already aware, as they had to donate blood for their daughter. Indo was transfused with two pints of blood. She stayed two weeks in the clinic before making a full recovery.

Continued: https://allafrica.com/stories/202105270074.html

26.05.2021

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Men On How Abortion Changed Their Lives

Men On How Abortion Changed Their Lives

Zoe Beaty
Last Updated 23 October 2019

"I didn’t really feel like I had a right to feel any kind of outward emotion about it," 35-year-old Jon Pollock, a health and safety manager in civil construction, is telling me. There’s a tangible apprehension in his voice – he’s choosing words carefully – because we’re talking about something that he’s only shared with three other people in the last decade. Something that is not for his kind, if you listen to public discourse.

"I feel like I’m intruding on something that isn’t mine to talk about," he says, suddenly.

Continued: https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2019/10/8554652/men-and-abortion-support

23.10.2019