Women’s right to control their own bodies - an ongoing struggle

Forty years on women (and men) in France commemorated the winning of the first law legalising abortion; the famous Roe v. Wade decision in the US dates from the same period. Articles on these two countries 40 years on: the struggle for abortion rights and The state of reproductive rights in 2015 chart that long and difficult struggle and why it is not over yet, and an article from Ireland Irish state reduces women to vessels highlights how far we still have to go to win that right for women throughout the world.