The ruling Law and Justice party preserve a seemingly outdated socially conservative agenda; repeatedly expressing its distaste for liberal western values and ideologies. Systemically ingrained with Catholicism, the party has placed anti-abortion rhetoric at the forefront of its agenda. Recent polling indicates that less than 15% of the population are in favor of the anti-abortion…

Miesiąc po wydrukowaniu wyroku Trybunału Konstytucyjnego organizacje pomagające Polkom wyjeżdżać za granicę w celu terminacji ciąży przeżywają oblężenie.

“In January this year, abortion assistance was provided 522 times to Polish women (in terms of procedures in clinics or pharmacological abortions) as part of the assistance offered by the Abortion Without Borders organisation, compared to 228 cases provided in the same period of the previous year,” the paper wrote.

In this episode we spoke with Mara Clarke, the founder of the Abortion Support Network in the UK and Kasia Roszak-ten Hove from Abortion Network Amsterdam about the very pragmatic side of abortion. We discussed current situation in Poland (just weeks after the cruel decision of the Constitutional Tribunal was published) and what has changed…

They support abortion. Some have had an abortion, some may have one in the future. They do not leave anyone in the lurch, they are on duty by the communicators of the Abortion Dream Team: – We don’t need politicians, we have each other

“We helped 75 people in 2019 and 126 people in 2020. The increase was likely due to an increased awareness of ASN and the help we provide and the added pressure Covid-19 placed on people in Malta with unintended or non-viable pregnancies,” Clarke said.

Zdrowie psychiczne nie stanie się furtką dla kobiet chcących terminacji ciąży.

“We were pleased to see October’s study by statistician Vincent Marmara showing that 18.1% of people would be in favour of the introduction of abortion in Malta. This is a 10% increase over the previous year, with even higher numbers among younger people in favour of abortion law liberalisation. Change is happening,” Lara Dimitrijevic of…

“Although opposition to abortion in the general population is high, the significant numbers of persons calling the advisory ser­vice for help clearly shows that there is a thirst for unbiased reproductive health education on the island.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 February 2021   Two years of helping people in Malta access abortions Voice for Choice, FPAS, Doctors for Choice, Women’s Rights Foundation and Abortion Support Network see some progress, push for change.   For two years, prochoice groups have been working to ensure that anyone who is pregnant is able to…