“Pregnant women who can travel, do. Those who can’t are forced to continue unwanted pregnancies, opt to take safe but illegal early medical abortion pills, or, fearful of criminal prosecution if caught taking pills, do more dangerous things to attempt to self-abort”.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   UK Department of Health abortion statistics show that no matter the law, people still travel for abortion. Abortion Support Network believes even one person is too many.   13 June 2019   2018 Department of Health numbers shows an increase in numbers travelling from Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man…

Pro-choice groups have warned that women in Malta are being targeted with “deception and intimidation” to prevent them from accessing legal abortion care overseas.

The Abortion Support Network (ASN) said it was guiding immigrant women in Ireland towards Dutch abortion facilities because it was taking too long to obtain visas for English clinics.

Three pro-choice groups have warned that anti-abortion groups in Malta are spreading misinformation in a bid to prevent women from accessing safe and legal abortions overseas

Mara Clarke from the London-based Abortion Support Network said that amid the “international hue and cry over Alabama”, people in Britain and across the world should never forget that in one part of the UK there was “an even more draconian anti-abortion regime”.

Activists in the UK have pointed out that women in Northern Ireland face even harsher laws, including life in jail for having a termination. They have accused the Westminster government of being complicit in these ‘human rights abuses,’ which mean women must travel to England for a termination, buy illegal abortion pills online or continue…

Over the past few days, talk of abortion on social media has rightfully increased. The awareness-raising is mainly down to a series of bills recently passed in the U.S.; in particular, Alabama’s highly restrictive abortion law. Plenty of UK citizens have, however, pointed out that a place much closer to home is currently in a…

It’s now been one year since the Republic of Ireland chose to give women autonomy over their lives and bodies. In a landslide referendum on 25 May 2018, the country voted overwhelmingly in favour of legalising abortion by repealing the eighth amendment of the Irish constitution, which stated that a pregnant woman and an unborn…