Support Abortion Rights at events throughout the summer and autumn
Abortion Rights is now preparing another series of activities ahead of further abortion votes in the autumn at the Report stage of... Read More
Scottish campaigners step up to the challenge
In Scotland supporters worked with the Scottish TUC and the student movement to brief Scottish MPs ahead of the key votes. Many... Read More
Campaign was decisive!
Abortion Rights thanks everyone’s efforts in our intensive campaign in defending women’s rights to abortion. Our work with pro-choice MPs and a... Read More
Timetable of HFE Bill and abortion debates
House of Lords Nov 07 – Jan 08 Anti-abortion amendment to restrict grounds for abortion and an attempt to establish a special... Read More
Positive amendments tabled to end abortion obstruction and delay
Forty years after the enactment of the 1967 Abortion Act too many women seeking an abortion face distressing obstruction and delay. This... Read More
Anti-abortion offensive continues – new votes in autumn
The well-funded anti-abortion lobby is continuing its ideologically driven campaign against a women’s rights to choose. It has announced its intention to... Read More
Time limit vote — a victory for women and the pro-choice movement
On 20 May 2008, MPs decisively defeated anti-abortion amendments to the government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill to lower the abortion... Read More