Madeleine Anderson
09 Dec 2024
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has called for the decriminalisation of abortion in England, Wales and Scotland. The union urged abortion to be treated as a health matter, rather than a criminal issue, in a statement issued last week.
It is currently a criminal offence for women to obtain an abortion without the approval of two doctors, as outlined in the 1967 Abortion Act, in England, Wales and Scotland.
Dec 9, 2024
Notes from Poland
The presidential candidate of Poland’s main ruling party, Rafał Trzaskowski, has outlined the priorities for his campaign, including ending the near-total abortion ban, increasing defence spending, and tackling inflation.
Speaking at a convention of the centrist Civic Coalition (KO) – at which he was introduced by Prime Minister Donald Tusk – Trzaskowski asked Poles to imagine how the country might look today if he had won the 2020 presidential elections, when he was narrowly defeated by Andrzej Duda, the conservative incumbent.
“There would be no embarrassment on the international stage, huge inflation, destruction of Polish schools, medieval anti-abortion law,” said Trzaskowski. “We will not allow that, women must decide about their lives and health.”
Charles Hymas (The Telegraph)
Sun, December 8, 2024
Ministers have been urged to ban the “pills by post” at-home abortions scheme after a man used the medication to spike the drink of a woman and cause a miscarriage.
Stuart Worby was jailed on Friday for 12 years for assaulting the woman when he administered the abortion pills in a glass of orange juice after obtaining them online.
The pills by post scheme was introduced during the Covid pandemic to prevent the spread of the virus and enable women to obtain the medication online without having an in-person consultation with a medical professional.
Continued: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ban-abortion-pills-post-ministers-171301207.html
Dec 8, 2024
São Paulo, Brazil — In the summer of 2023, Matheus terminated his pregnancy at a friend’s house. 26-year-old Matheus, who identifies as nonbinary and uses he/she pronouns, said he, made the decision because he felt unsafe with the person he had sex with, and the pregnancy triggered his gender dysphoria.
“I thought about how my body would be with the pregnancy, and it shakes me,” he told CNN, sitting at a park in the Brazilian city of São José dos Campos. “My breasts would have milk, and my breasts are a part of my body, that really bothers me”. Despite the toll the pregnancy would have taken on Matheus’ mental health – whose real name has been changed to protect his identity – what he did is illegal.
Continued: https://www.bundle.app/en/breakingNews/'you-feel-like-a-criminal':-how-trans-people-are-pushed-further-to-the-margins-in-anti-abortion-braz-da92d3b1-953c-4e45-bc98-a3ebee9f794f
Femke COLBORNE
Dec 7, 2024
German campaigners are pushing for reform to remove legal hurdles for women seeking an abortion, with emotions running high on the issue as the country heads for early elections.
Under German law, abortion is illegal but tolerated in practice for women who are up to 12 weeks pregnant. However, a woman seeking to terminate a pregnancy must first receive compulsory counselling, followed by a three-day waiting period and many doctors say the process can be complicated as well as traumatic.
Dec 6, 2024
Clare Worden, BBC News
A man has been jailed for 12 years for sexually assaulting a pregnant woman and giving her medication to cause a miscarriage.
Prosecutors said Stuart Worby administered the drugs in a glass of orange juice and when the victim was blindfolded under the guise of what they said was "kinky sex".
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered a miscarriage in hospital within hours of the assault.
Dec 6, 2024
by Laurence Dollimore
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they ‘can never be undone’.
The left-wing PSOE leader made the announcement at an event marking the 46th anniversary of the Spanish Magna Carta – when the country left behind the Franco dictatorship and installed a parliamentary democracy.
“We believe that these are rights that we must protect in the Constitution so that no one can touch them in the future,” Sanchez said in a statement in parliament on Friday.
By Lais Morais
December 5, 2024
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - When Rebeca Mendes became pregnant, she fought for the right to have an abortion in Brazil. The Supreme Court denied her request to allow it in 2017, so she flew to Colombia to terminate her pregnancy.
Now she is an activist for the right to have safe and legal abortions in a country where they are only allowed in the case of rape, fetal deformation or the mother's life is in danger.
Continued: https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazilian-abortion-activist-had-abroad-130349895.html
By Chantelle Lee
December 4, 2024
Kate Dineen was about 33 weeks pregnant with her second child when an ultrasound revealed that her baby had suffered a catastrophic stroke in utero and would likely either die before birth or have a short and painful life.
“This was a deeply wanted pregnancy. Everything had been progressing smoothly,” Dineen, now 41, says. “I was just shocked by the diagnosis first, and heartbroken by the diagnosis, and also certain that I wanted to try and obtain a termination so that I could protect my son from pain and suffering. I knew in that moment that I wanted to make the decision.”
Continued: https://time.com/7199856/abortion-fetal-viability-pregnancy/
The country's abortion law has reduced fertility rates and preventable deaths among girls ages 10 to 14
By Maria Emilia Pianesi
December 4, 2024
Each year, comprehensive abortion care could save the lives of up to nearly 39,000 women and prevent related health complications for 5 million women worldwide. A multicountry survey on the implementation of comprehensive abortion policies in Latin America and the Caribbean found that safe abortions and quality post-abortion care in the region is limited by some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. As a result, the issue remains a major health and policy challenge in the region.
In this context, Argentina has taken a historic step for sexual and reproductive health and rights by legalizing abortion. Law 27.610, Access to Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy and Post-Abortion Care, has been enforced since January 2021. It allows anyone to request an abortion before 14 weeks of pregnancy and entails no time limit in cases of sexual assault or when the life of the applicant is in danger.
Continued: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/argentinas-abortion-law-three-years-later
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