Breaking the Silence: Abortion Rights in Kenya – BBC Africa Eye documentary

BBC News Africa
Nov 26, 2023
Film: 45 minutes

Across the world, debates are raging about access to safe abortion. Complications from unsafe, backstreet procedures are a leading cause of maternal death in developing countries. In Kenya, where almost two-thirds of pregnancies are unintended, unregulated terminations are estimated to claim the lives of over 2,000 women every year.

BBC Africa Eye reporter Linda Ngari investigates a hidden crisis that has led to an estimated seven Kenyan women dying from unsafe abortions every day, with many more facing life-altering complications.

Continued: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI3AKMFgVKQ

‘We are fighting for the girls who come after us’: abortion rights at risk in Argentina election

Argentina’s presidential frontrunner, Javier Milei, is threatening to outlaw the abortion rights only won three years ago

Harriet Barber in Buenos Aires
Mon 2 Oct 2023

“We are fighting against the presidential candidates who threaten the rights of women,” says Marilyna, 28, standing hand in hand with her friend outside Argentina’s National Congress last Thursday evening.

Argentina is three weeks away from a national election in which the rights of women and abortion have been put on the ballot, just three years after elective terminations were legalised. Marilyna is one of thousands of women, men and children protesting on the streets of Buenos Aires.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/oct/02/abortion-rights-at-risk-in-argentina-election

Polish activist says she won’t stop swearing after guilty ruling

PAUL WALDIEEUROPE
Sept 23, 2023

Julia Landowska never thought of herself as a crusader for free speech until she got a $15 fine for swearing in public during a protest against Poland’s strict abortion laws.

Ms. Landowska is a 23-year-old medical student in Gdansk and rarely paid much attention to politics until October, 2020, when Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal issued a ruling that banned access to abortion in all circumstances except cases of sexual assault or incest or if the woman’s life or health were at risk. The decision prompted widespread demonstrations against the populist Law and Justice party, or PiS, which has been accused of politicizing the tribunal.

Continued: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-polish-anti-abortion-activist-says-she-wont-stop-swearing-after-guilty/

USA – One year later, the Supreme Court’s abortion decision is both scorned and praised

By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Jun 25, 2023

Activists and politicians are marking the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned a nationwide right to abortion with praise from some and protests from others.

Advocates on both sides marched at rallies Saturday in Washington and across the country to call attention to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling on June 24, 2022, which upended the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Continued: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-dobbs-roe-anniversary-rally-ff6196c80112b7c9d5e6822b1807bf3e

A year after Roe’s fall, Women’s March returns to press for abortion access

Demonstrators gathered in D.C., some marching with signs that read ‘Bans off our Bodies’

By Corinne Dorsey, Heidi Pérez-Moreno and Justin Wm. Moyer
June 24, 2023

Janisann Hay, 65, beamed with pride as she and her granddaughter, 16-year-old Sophia Paxton, made their way Saturday to the gathering spot for the 2023 Women’s March outside Union Station.

“I’m so proud of you,” Hay said to her granddaughter.

Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/24/womens-march-dc-abortion-rights/

24.06.2023

Naral Pro-Choice America

National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda

US activists rally one year after Supreme Court allowed abortion bans

By Julia Harte
June 24, 2023

(Reuters) - Abortion rights supporters and opponents held dueling rallies around the U.S. on Saturday, the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized the procedure nationwide.

In Washington, speakers from national abortion rights groups, including Women's March and NARAL Pro-Choice America, assembled in Columbus Circle to celebrate the defeat of some abortion opponents in the 2022 midterm races and to rally voters ahead of next year's congressional and presidential elections.

Continued: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-activists-rally-one-year-after-supreme-court-allowed-abortion-bans-2023-06-24/

24.06.2023

Naral Pro-Choice America

Planned Parenthood Action Fund

pro-choice rallies

Women's March

USA – Across the country, abortion rights advocates rally in support of abortion pill access

April 15, 2023
By Kaitlyn Radde

Abortion rights supporters around the country and in the nation's capital are holding rallies Saturday and Sunday against the decision by a Texas judge to reverse the FDA's approval of a key abortion drug.

Portions of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's nationwide injunction blocking mifepristone's approval would have gone into effect on Saturday had the Supreme Court not stayed the decision Friday afternoon.

Continued: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1170268300/planned-parenthood-rally-abortion-pill-mifepristone-supreme-court

15.04.2023

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington

Abortion rights protesters rally in cities across the United States

Hundreds gathered in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and Washington D.C. days after a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion was leaked to the public suggesting the court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.

By The Associated Press
Sat., May 7, 2022

CHICAGO (AP) — Abortion rights protesters rallied in cities around the United States on Saturday, vowing to fight to ensure that abortion remains a legal option for women nationwide.

Hundreds gathered in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and other cities days after a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion was leaked to the public suggesting the court is poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. The draft opinion, which comes amid nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections, could change before the ruling is finalized in coming weeks.

Continued: https://www.thespec.com/ts/news/world/us/2022/05/07/abortion-rights-protesters-rally-in-cities-around-us.html

07.05.2022

Courts Matter Illinois

Death of pregnant Polish woman sparks new wave of abortion protests in Czechia

On the Day of Polish Independence, protestors marched against hardline abortion laws at the Polish consulate in Ostrava.

Written by Expats.cz Staff

Published on 12.11.2021

Poland’s crackdown on abortion is forcing more and more Polish women to seek
help in the Czech Republic. The “Auntie Czech” collective helping Polish women
get abortions across the border earlier this month marked its first anniversary
with a fundraiser in Prague.

Yesterday, on the occasion of the Day of Polish Independence, around 100 people
met outside the Polish general consulate seat in Ostrava to protest against
tough abortion legislation in Poland. The protest was organized to support
larger-scale efforts taking place in Poland following the death of a pregnant
woman after doctors refused to carry out an abortion to save her.

Continued: https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/polish-abortion-restrictions-spark-protests-in-the-czech-republic

Thousands protest Trump’s Supreme Court pick at Women’s Marches

Women’s rights groups have raised concerns that Amy Coney Barrett will restrict abortion access in the United States.

17 Oct 2020

Thousands of protesters have rallied in the US capital – Washington, DC – and other cities across the country to protest against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and to call for his defeat in the November 3 election.

Saturday’s rallies, which organisers said were taking place in all 50 states, were inspired by the first Women’s March in Washington, DC, a huge anti-Trump rally held a day after his 2017 inauguration.

Continued: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/17/womens-march-holds-rally-against-trumps-supreme-court-pick