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Autonomous for Abortion Care

Jex Blackmore — 2025-03-08T15:04:10Z

In the face of escalating restrictions and criminalization of abortion, Naomi Braine's Abortion Beyond the Law highlights the transformative power of mutual aid and solidarity in ensuring access to abortion, despite oppressive laws.

- Reviews section / Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Betrayed by the System in Brazil

L.M. Bonato — 2025-02-28T22:27:08Z

While various human rights reports show that annually between one and four million Brazilian women have abortions, the right to women's bodily autonomy remains a major battle. Currently the law allows abortion only in the case of rape or to save the woman's life. This means millons of women are forced to seek underground abortions.

- IVP601- February 2025 / Brazil, Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

France: 50 years of the Veil law: abortion, a right never won

Manon Boltansky , Ju Chiro — 2025-01-24T07:28:00Z

On 17 January 1975, the Veil law was promulgated in France: voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) could now be carried out legally and in a safe environment. The right to contraception and abortion was a victory won by the struggles of the feminist movement in the 1970s, in France as in many other countries.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / France, Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

The global gag rule and women's abortion rights

Liz Lawrence — 2024-08-27T08:14:10Z

Liz Lawrence looks at the importance of birth control for women's liberation, the history of the global gag rule on healthcare funding for NGOs (non-governmental organizations) which provide abortion services, and the health impact of the global gag rule.

- IV595 - August 2024 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

After Roe, the Anti-Abortion Deluge

Dianne Feeley — 2024-06-08T15:53:00Z

“The fight for abortion isn't disconnected from a whole range of issues that connect human beings to one another. There is no need to create hundreds of laws governing abortion — just access to good medical care. ”

- IV593 - June 2024 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Abortion Rights After Dobbs: The State of the Struggle

Johanna Brenner — 2024-04-27T11:41:00Z

“Changes in public opinion have not yet brought changes to Republican-dominated state legislatures, not surprising when we consider their lop-sided gerrymandered character. Yet Republicans are now on notice, even in very, very red states.”

- Feminism / United States (USA), Abortion and reproductive rights

Republican Attacks on Abortion Help Biden Campaign, But Will that be Enough Given Reaction to His Position on Israel?

Dan La Botz — 2024-04-14T21:00:00Z

“The Republican politicians attack on women's reproductive rights, driven by the party's white Evangelical Christian base, has led to a strong political reaction by Democrats, independent voters, and even some Republicans. ”

- IV591 - April 2024 / United States (USA), Abortion and reproductive rights

The U.S. Right also Wants to Get Rid of Birth Control

Dan La Botz — 2024-03-24T22:05:41Z

“The pill, widely used by both single and married women, made it possible for women to plan their careers and their families and, yes, to have sex for pleasure when they wanted to. Working class, and poor women no longer had to have children that they couldn't afford and support or so many children that they would be overwhelmed with domestic labor and emotionally exhausted.“

- IV590 - March 2024 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Alabama Supreme Court Rules that Embryos are Children; The Right's Latest Attack on Women

Dan La Botz — 2024-02-26T07:02:33Z

“Throw this whole woman-hating party and their propaganda network in the trash. They've earned themselves a spot in the dustbin of US political history.”

- IV589 - February 2024 / United States (USA), Women, Abortion and reproductive rights

Abortion: a pillar of a broad pro-democracy and human rights coalition

Camila Valle, Mabel Bellucci — 2022-11-03T08:30:57Z

“The assemblies also had as a starting point that abortion was a demand that needed to be raised, without fail, just as they demanded an end to repression, discrimination, and the external debt. ”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Women, Argentina, Abortion and reproductive rights