USA – She ended a pregnancy so her child wouldn’t suffer. Now she helps others like her.

Emma Belle and other parents who experienced TFMR, or termination for medical reasons, are creating an online community to ease the grieving process

By Ashley Fetters Maloy
Apr 26, 2022

Emma Belle was hopeful about this pregnancy. Anxious, but hopeful. In their quest to have a baby, Belle and her husband had been through three rounds of ovulation induction, a miscarriage at five weeks and two rounds of intrauterine insemination. When she was still pregnant after a few months in late 2020, she began to allow herself to imagine actually parenting a child.

Then the bad news came. Belle, who lives part time in the United Kingdom and part time in Dubai, recalls that at her 12-week scan, “the sonographer’s face changed. She said, ‘I can’t not tell you what I can see.’ ” A genetic test later found a 99 percent chance the baby had Edwards syndrome, also known as Trisomy 18. Doctors told Belle that the baby would likely either die in utero before 28 weeks or live only a few hours or days.

Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/04/26/tfmr-pregnancy-termination-for-medical-reasons/

27.04.2022

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Return to Zero: H.O.P.E.

Termination for Medical Reasons

Change is inevitable: people demand the human right to access safe abortion across Europe

Amnesty International
September 28, 2021

Europe has been at the forefront of the global trend towards the liberalization of abortion laws for more than 60 years. But there is still work to do to give all women and people who can become pregnant access to safe and legal abortion.

Almost all EU member states have now legalized abortion on request or on broad socio-economic grounds and, in the last few years, several European countries have enacted important progressive reforms or taken steps to remove harmful procedural and regulatory barriers that can impede access to abortion.

Continued: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/09/change-is-inevitable-people-demand-the-human-right-to-access-safe-abortion-across-europe/

Ireland – Anti-abortion TDs’ push to make foetus burials ‘offensive’

Anti-abortion TDs’ push to make foetus burials ‘offensive’

Jennifer Bray, Ireland Deputy Political Editor
November 5 2018

Simon Harris has criticised attempts by a small number of TDs to make burials or cremations compulsory after a woman has an abortion.

Nine TDs want to amend the abortion bill to make it a criminal offence for a woman not to have a burial or a cremation after a termination, including in cases in which they had taken abortion pills prescribed by a GP at home.

Continued: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anti-abortion-tds-push-to-make-foetus-burials-offensive-says-simon-harris-rn35kh50f

Ireland – Harris decision over abortion services welcomed

Harris decision over abortion services welcomed

Monday, 13 Aug 2018

The chairperson of the Termination for Medical Reasons group has welcomed a decision by the Minister for Health to allow doctors to refer women who have pregnancies, where there is a diagnosis of a life-limiting condition, for an abortion abroad before the end of this year.

In a statement to RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Simon Harris said he wants to allow certain parts of the legislation to come into effect in advance of services beginning in January.

Continued: https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2018/0813/984726-abortion-ireland/

13.08.2018

fatal fetal abnormality

referrals for abortion

Simon Harris

Termination for Medical Reasons

Canada responds to claims that aborted babies are left to die alone

Canada responds to claims that aborted babies are left to die alone
Ellen Coyne, Senior Ireland Reporter
October 24 2017, The Times

The Canadian authorities addressed claims from anti-abortion politicians in Ireland that the country’s laws resulted in babies being left to die alone.

Statistics Canada, a state agency, and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) made the comments after a group wrote to Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, expressing concern that claims about the country’s treatment of women were being made in the Oireachtas.

Continued at source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/canada-responds-to-claims-that-aborted-babies-are-left-to-die-alone-ttpjxxvqh