Standard Issue: International Safe Abortion Day 2020

“If they’re weighing their options, trying to decide if they should keep the baby or give it up for adoption, they more likely to reach out to a family doctor, a parent or family member, or other groups already in Malta. When they contact us, it’s usually because they need financial support, or they want…

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“It was the most incredible, amazing experience of my life,” the veteran women’s rights activist Mara Clarke told me. “It was totally insane. But also really wonderful. And proof that sisters and siblings can get shit done when they want to.”

What would you do if you were pregnant? If you couldn’t get the abortion you need in the country you were living in?   Do you go to your GP or look for information online? Confide in friends or keep it a secret? Abortion Support Network (ASN) invites people to find out in their new…

    A pregnancy test… A lie… A missed connection… What will you do? On September 28th, we will be publishing Saoirse’s Story – an interactive story about an unplanned pregnancy, where you make all the choices.   If you’d like us to send you the story on the 28th of September, sign up for…

Maltese women asking for help to get abortions surged during COVID-19, UK-based charity Abortion Support Network told Lovin Malta. According to their figures, they helped a total of 87 women terminate their pregnancies this year, already exceeding last year’s total of 83.

Overseas charities have reported large increases in requests for abortion pills from women in Malta during the pandemic. Women On Web, an online community based in the Netherlands, received 45 pill requests in March and 47 in April, up from 18 in February, with three women who requested abortion pills saying they had been raped…

“In september 2019 vond het eerste grote pro-choiceprotest plaats in Malta. We waren met meer dan 200 mensen”, zegt Sam Vassallo. “Dit was een historisch moment, aangezien maar weinig Maltezen openlijk pro-choice zijn. Zes maanden eerder was er ook al een protest aan de overheidsgebouwen. Toen waren we met amper zeven deelnemers. We hebben een…

In some European countries, hospitals have stopped performing abortions. In others, where abortion is severely restricted, women have been unable to travel to get treatment elsewhere.