Abortion Rights condemns the deeply misogynistic and extremist comments made by Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon, in which he described abortion as a “cowardly act of murdering a defenceless baby” and suggested women falsely claim rape in order to access abortion care. These remarks are not only false, offensive and stigmatising, they are... Read More

If the first phase of post-Roe America was shock, the second is attrition. This week’s reproductive rights news in the US showed how the anti-abortion movement is evolving. The goal is no longer only to ban abortion outright. It is to make access so fragile, confusing and legally risky that patients, doctors and providers are... Read More

Roe Reckonings: The Courtroom, the Mailbox and the Medical Record From last Friday to today, the US abortion landscape has once again doing what it does best in the post-Roe era: shift under everyone’s feet. Not because abortion opponents have found a new argument. They haven’t. But because the same strategy keeps mutating. Restrict the... Read More

It has been nearly four years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ended the federal constitutional right to abortion in the US, but if the past week has shown anything, it is that the US is still defining what reproductive rights look like after Roe. The fight is increasingly being fought in court filings,... Read More

The Aftershock Era Three years after the fall of Roe v. Wade, the consequences are being felt right across the US.  This past week captures just how unsettled the landscape remains. Courts, legislatures and voters are moving in different directions at once and the system is in constant revision. Federal Courts Tighten and Tangle The... Read More

This week’s Commons votes on abortion marked a significant victory, politically, practically and symbolically. They represent one of the most substantial parliamentary shifts away from criminalisation in England and Wales in years. MPs voted to retain and strengthen Clause 208, to protect telemedical abortion access, reject new criminal offences relating to abortion pills, block attempts... Read More

If last week proved anything, it’s that abortion in the US gets messier all the time. Courts expand access in one place, lawmakers tighten restrictions in another, and the gap between what’s legal and what’s actually possible keeps growing.  A rare win – but don’t get too comfortable Pennsylvania’s court struck down its ban on... Read More

Abortion Rights Statement Let’s be clear: there is no such thing as a “lunch-hour abortion” policy. That phrase is designed to shock people. What’s actually being proposed is simple, removing pointless delays in healthcare. Under the current system, people are often forced to attend multiple appointments not because they need them, but because the funding... Read More

We think this is settled. It isn’t. There’s this assumption in British politics that abortion rights are settled. That whatever is happening in the US couldn’t really happen here. That it’s a different political culture, a different system, a different kind of debate. But that assumption is starting to look shaky. Because people like Lois... Read More

Because apparently the post-Dobbs era said “subtlety is overrated”. 1. The mask-off moment nobody should be surprised by (and yet…) A major anti-abortion group is now openly flirting with the idea of criminal penalties for women who get abortions. Yes, women.  For years the messaging was all “compassion” and “support.” Now it’s inching towards surveillance-and-punishment... Read More