“I was pregnant in the middle of a pandemic. And I did not want to be,” she recalls. “For me, this was the worst news. It also came at the most emotionally challenging time of my life.”

Number travelling for abortions halved in first six months compared with 2019

Dr Sydney Calkin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Human Geography, has written an opinion piece for The Conversation in response to a new law relating to access to abortion in Poland.

Growing up on the island of Ireland, reproductive justice has always been a massive personal motivator. So when I was invited to join Abortion Support Network’s (ASN) Board as Treasurer in 2018, I was not only thrilled but it brought terrific alignment with my own core values, particularly solidarity and compassion.

Poland’s abortion protests have drawn worldwide attention – and support. Here is how people around the world are responding.

Despite mass protests, global criticism, and already strict abortion laws, the country’s government has rolled back women’s rights even further

Polskie aktywistki zbudowały prawdziwy system – legalną, prężnie działającą sieć wsparcia i informacji

Helplines across Europe have reported higher demand for their services as the coronavirus pandemic adds to the hurdles many women face to access abortion.

According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, 95 per cent of women in Europe of reproductive age live in countries that allow abortion on request or on broad social grounds. Three European countries – Poland, Liechtenstein, Monaco – have highly restrictive abortion laws, and three others – Andorra, Malta, San Marino – have an outright…

Sitting on a hard plastic seat in the corridor of the Bielanski Hospital in north Warsaw last week, waiting for her abortion pill to take effect, Malgorzata quietly recounted her struggle to get a termination for a foetal abnomality in a country bitterly divided over the sanctity of unborn life.