In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, ASN brings the gift of confidential, non-judgemental information and funding for abortion costs to new countries  Roses are Red, Violets are Blue Ireland has safe legal abortion So we’re expanding to help Malta and Gibraltar too! Abortion Support Network (ASN), a small UK-based charity providing financial assistance, practical information and…

“Any person who can get an abortion in Ireland without having to get on a plane or a boat is a victory, but this law is going to leave a lot of people behind,” Clarke told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Although terminations, including the mandatory two doctor’s appointments, are free for women from the Republic, the Health Service Executive (HSE) said northern women will have to pay.

A hold up to the Abortion Reform Bill is being blamed on the increased workload currently on the UK’s civil service because of the country’s planned departure from the European Union.

Despite the majority of voters saying “yes” to legal abortion in a historic referendum in May, women in Ireland are still having to travel across borders to terminate their unwanted pregnancies. “We get called saying, ‘I thought it was settled’,” says Mara Clarke, the founder of England-based charity Abortion Support Network. “But it’s not settled.”

ASN is an abortion fund and not a campaigning organisation. While we work with campaigning organisations (hi, y’all, we LOVE YOU!) our role is to help the people who need abortions RIGHT NOW while other groups campaign for law reform that will help people get abortions in the future. Of course, as evidenced by the…

“We shouldn’t have to do admin. We shouldn’t have to travel or book flights or look for hotels. We had a month having to figure out what the hell to do in terms of just the logistics of it all, knowing what we knew, but not being able to process that because you have to…

“You didn’t want to become the face of a movement; you wanted a procedure that would have saved your life,” Watson wrote.

We give £5 from every t-shirt or sweater sold from the Resistance Mama range to them, and will continue to do until they no longer need to exist.” Stacey’s feminist philosophy also extends to how her products are made. “We use all organic cotton and ethically supplied garments for this reason too,” she reveals. “It…

“This is a mother who has been treated like a common criminal for helping her daughter source medication that is prescribed free on the NHS in every other part of the UK.”