When Dream Nails released Vagina Police in 2018, with proceeds going to help people who needed to travel to have a safe, legal abortion, they had probably hoped that the lyrics (‘You have no autonomy, your body is not your own, you are public property’) wouldn’t be relevant in a new decade.

UK charity Abortion Support Network responds to Ireland’s report on abortions carried out in 2019, 30 June 2020 Abortion Support Network (ASN) is pleased to see that Ireland has published the “Notifications in Accordance with Section 20 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy” Act 2018. The numbers show that terminations included 6,542 for…

For Immediate Release  From: Alliance for Choice, the Abortion Rights Campaign & Abortion Support Network 11/06/2020   UK DOH abortion figures show that hundreds still have to leave the island for care “Even one person having to travel for care is too many”   1,389 women gave addresses from Ireland, North and South, when having…

The Abortion Support Network, a charity that helps people travel from Malta, Gibraltar and Poland to access abortions in countries with more liberal laws, saw a dramatic increase in calls to its hotline when borders closed in March. “The contacts we are getting are a lot more frantic,” says the network’s founder, Mara Clarke.

Abortion providers argue the fact new figures from the UK Department of Health show 26 women a week had to needlessly travel abroad to have their pregnancies terminated last year demonstrates measures to decriminalise abortion have failed.

Thousands of women have contacted a hotline in just three months as the coronavirus lockdown complicates access

At the end of May, the Irish Government introduced a 14-day quarantine for anyone entering the State and tracking information for each person entering. These requirements have significant implications for anyone travelling for abortion, and further reveal the failings of a law so restrictive that – two years on from Repeal – people are still…

Pro-choice groups have flagged Facebook pages which have popped up in recent months claiming to sell abortion pills in Malta.

Featuring Mara Clarke from 25.48

Pro-choice group No more Shame says there’s been a dramatic increase in calls from Gibraltar to the Abortion Support Network In the two months since the postponement of the referendum.