Those who needed financial help were given a total of £8,882.74 (€10,700.34) in grants from the charity, £2,263.52 (€2,726.69) towards the cost of travel and accommodation and £6,619.22 (€7,973.66) towards consultations and abortion care services, or an average of £888.74 (€1,070.60) per client.

“While we are unhappy that people from Malta need to contact our charity for help in order to receive factual information about pregnancy options and help with abortion care, we are glad to be of service to anyone in Malta who wants or needs to terminate a pregnancy and lacks the information or funding to…

82 women in Malta have reached out to UK-based charity Abortion Support Network (ASN) over the past year, with 10 of them receiving funding for traveling, consultations and abortion care.

The emphasis on delaying women’s decisions in the training I took is dangerous, Mara Clarke, from the UK charity Abortion Support Network, told me. “As soon as someone decides they want an abortion, they are up against the clock”, she explained. Delaying decisions could force women to endure more invasive procedures.

A system designed by thinking about those least able to access care would certainly result in a system that decriminalised abortion and centred on the autonomy of pregnant people, rather than one that instituted requirements for multiple visits and points of medical control over decision making.

“The most marginalised people don’t have a pathway, and they are still being failed by the law.”

Malta is the only country in the EU where abortion remains illegal, but at the same time, hundreds of women leave Malta each year to have abortions overseas, typically in the UK or Italy. Abortion is surrounded by a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ mentality, a no-go area for the Maltese and a politically untouchable subject:…

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The project, which is the result of collaboration between six Polish and international organisations, offers a website (aborcjabezgranic.pl) and a dedicated phone helpline to provide women seeking abortions with organisational, financial and psychological support, reports Tok FM.