<p> Irishtimes.com – <strong>OPINION:</strong> The news of Savita Halappanavar’s death in appalling circumstances is a wake-up call for legislators</p> <p> No more inaction. For 20 years now the lives of Irish women have been put at risk by the failure of successive governments to legislate for the X case.<br /> The news this week of Savita…
<p> The Guardian – The parents of the woman who died after being refused an abortion in a Galway hospital have blamed Ireland's abortion laws for her death.<br /> Their accusation comes as a legal expert in Ireland said it would have been lawful to offer Savita Halappanavar a termination that she and her husband…
<p> IPPF European Network (IPPF EN) is outraged at the news of the death of a pregnant woman in Ireland who was repeatedly denied a potentially life-saving abortion. IPPF EN joins the thousands of people that rallied outside Ireland's parliament on Wednesday and will continue to do so this weekend all over Europe to demand…
<p> The Guardian – Police have warned the media to avoid filming or photographing the faces of anyone entering the first ever private abortion clinic on the island of Ireland. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said any film or pictures identifying clients or staff going into the building in central Belfast would be…
<p> The Guardian – For the past five years, with varying regularity, three or four protesters have turned up at the side of a busy road in Brighton. They hoist placards bearing graphic images of aborted foetuses alongside the redbrick walls of Wistons clinic and accost every woman going through the gates, pushing pamphlets into…
<p> The Guardian – The first ever private abortion clinic on the island of Ireland has hired security guards to protect clients and staff when it opens in Belfast on Thursday, the international director of the sexual health charity Marie Stopes has confirmed. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/14/northern-ireland-abortion-clinic-security" target="_blank">Lire la suite</a></p>
<p> Polish women don’t have access to abortion rights. The existing law allows for termination of pregnancy only in cases of a serious threat to woman’s health, severe damage of the fetus or rape. Its implementation proved to be complete fiction. Officially there are about 500 abortions a year in Poland while for example in…
<p> The Guardian – Liberal thinktank says rightwingers are aggressively targeting the continent with an anti-abortion and anti-gay agenda. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/24/evangelical-christians-homophobia-africa" target="_blank">Lire la suite</a></p>
<p> The Guardian – American feminists want women to 'come out' about abortion. But the political needn't be personal. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/17/abortion-beware-overshare-american-feminists" target="_blank">Lire la suite</a></p>
<p> The Guardian – Erdogan equating abortion with murder has created an outcry, but the opposition has work to do in fighting this off. Words can be explosive in Turkey. They set off chain reactions, which reach far and wide and deepen the existing polarisation of the country. This was the effect of Recep Tayyip…
