Mourners in Rome pay last respects to Italian activist Emma Bonino

By The Associated Press
September 13, 2026

ROME — Hundreds of people queued outside Rome’s city hall on Sunday to pay their last respects to Emma Bonino, the prominent Italian politician and human rights campaigner who died on Friday, aged 78.

A Carabinieri honor guard escorted the casket into the building, where Riccardo Magi, secretary of +Europa — the party Bonino founded in 2017 — placed a European flag on it next to a photo of an elegant Bonino wearing a black head scarf.

A woman carrying a sunflower was the first to enter. She carefully placed the flower next to the coffin before standing to the side as others filed past. Behind her was Caterina Borelli, an artist from Rome. “I think she was indomitable,” she said. “She has been so important for all women and for the evolution of the feminist movement in Italy.”

Continued: https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/italy-bonino-rome-lie-state-politics-u17896

13.09.2026

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Emma Bonino, Italian politician who fought for abortion access, dies aged 78

Sep 11, 2026
By Crispian Balmer

ROME (Reuters) – Emma Bonino’s life in politics began with a crime. In 1974, at a time when abortion was illegal in Italy, she travelled to a clandestine clinic in Florence to terminate an unplanned pregnancy.

“Coming back by train at night, I decided that never, never, never again should anyone have to suffer this humiliation,” she later recalled. A year later, determined to drag abortion out of the shadows, she handed herself in to the police, turning her private “offence” into a public ‌act of defiance.

The arrest made headlines, fueling a campaign that eventually led to the legalisation of abortion in 1978. It also launched Bonino into parliament with the Radical Party, a small but relentless force for civil rights.

Continued: https://whtc.com/2026/09/11/emma-bonino-italian-politician-who-fought-for-abortion-access-dies-aged-78/

11.09.2026

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UK – They Say They Want to Protect Women. We’re Calling BULLSHIT.

Sep 10, 2026
Alisa Berry Ryan, Abortion Rights Campaign

If you were with us in Parliament Square on Saturday, you saw exactly what we are up against.

Every year, anti abortion campaigners tell us their movement is about compassion. They talk about “protecting women”, supporting families and defending life.

But the reality we saw on Saturday looked very different.

Continued: https://abortionrights.org.uk/weekly-spotlight-they-say-they-want-to-protect-women-were-calling-bullshit/

10.09.2026

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Why is Scotland the only part of the UK not to decriminalise abortion?

As women’s reproductive rights come under increasing attack from populists, our Writer at Large meets the campaigners demanding that the SNP modernise the law in Scotland

By Neil Mackay
Sep 6, 2026

Lucy Grieve has become one of the leading campaigners for women’s rights in Scotland – and she hasn’t hit 30 yet. She was a student when she set up Back Off Scotland, the campaign that led to the establishment of buffer zones outside abortion clinics to protect women and healthcare staff from religious protesters.

…Today, Grieve is at the heart of the Let’s Change The Act campaign, which aims to modernise and reform Scotland’s abortion laws. Campaigners says the law is outdated and discriminatory.

Continued: https://archive.is/jdJxc
(https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26525203.scotland-part-uk-not-decriminalise-abortion/)

UK – Abortion rights protest takes on bigots’ ‘March for Life’

Here’s a video of the protest.
Protesters kept up chants of ‘pro-life, that’s a lie, you don’t care if women die’

By Camilla Royle, Socialist Worker
Saturday 05 September 2026

Hundreds of people of all genders and generations protested in London’s parliament square on Saturday against the anti-abortion bigots’ annual “March for Life”.

The Stand Up For Choice protest, called by Abortion Rights UK, was backed by numerous campaign groups and trade unions.

Continued: https://socialistworker.co.uk/womens-liberation/abortion-rights-protest-takes-on-bigots-march-for-life/

Inspectors allow only Dutch online abortion service to continue

September 3, 2026

The Dutch’ healthcare inspectorate has found that the country’s only online abortion service fell short on its duties for care, but will let it keep operating after the site agreed to change its practices.

Thuisabortus.nl, which launched in March, was the first service in the Netherlands to let women get the abortion pill prescribed without an in-person visit to a GP or clinic.

The inspectorate, the IGJ, said the main problem was that women who ordered the pill through the website usually had no personal contact with a doctor before it was prescribed but it also found no serious risk to patients and so no reason to shut it down.

Continued; https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/inspectors-allow-only-dutch-online-abortion-service-to-continue/

03.09.2026

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Liechtenstein’s parliament backs abortion initiative

AFP
Wed, 2 September 2026

Liechtenstein's parliament voted by the narrowest possible margin Wednesday to accept a citizens' initiative to legalise abortion in the Alpine microstate.

However, the country's regent Hereditary Prince Alois, who has the power to veto, has made clear his opposition to the initiative.

Abortion is currently illegal in Liechtenstein except for specific circumstances, such as when the mother's life is at risk or if the pregnancy resulted from rape.

Continued: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/liechtensteins-parliament-backs-abortion-initiative-204655971.html

02.09.2026

Belfast City Hall to be lit up for International Safe Abortion Day as DUP slams decision

DUP’s Tracy Kelly said building should not be turned into ‘billboard for abortion’

Niall McGreevy
2 Sep 2026

Belfast City Council have voted in favour of lighting up city hall to mark International Safe Abortion Day, however a DUP councillor said his party will “do everything they can to stop it”.

The council vote passed after the proposal received 36 votes saying yes and 18 against.

The request was made for the first time by the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC), who wanted to illuminate the building in green.

Continued: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/belfast/belfast-city-hall-to-be-lit-up-for-international-safe-abortion-day-as-dup-slams-decision/a/160876911.html

02.09.2026

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Danish PM supports Greenland’s reconciliation commission plan

Decades of forced contraception for Inuit women

Sep 1, 2026

Greenland said it would establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Denmark’s forced contraception of thousands of Indigenous people, after experts failed to agree on whether the scheme constituted “genocide.”

The forced Inuit contraception campaign is one of the darkest chapters in Greenland’s history with its former colonial power Denmark.

Continued: https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-london-free-press/20260901/281767046088537

02.09.2026

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UK – Reform ramps up abortion culture war as pro-choice campaigners prepare to take to Parliament Square

01 Sep 2026
Alisa Berry Ryan, Abortion Rights Campaign

Abortion Rights warns that anti-abortion politics is being pushed further into the British mainstream as Reform UK hosts anti-abortion campaigners at its party conference this week.

This weekend, on Saturday 5 September, pro-choice campaigners, trade unions, MPs and healthcare organisations will gather in Parliament Square for Stand Up for Choice, Abortion Rights’ annual counter-protest to March for Life UK.

Continued: https://abortionrights.org.uk/reform-ramps-up-abortion-culture-war-as-pro-choice-campaigners-prepare-to-take-to-parliament-square/

01.09.2026