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The activists helping Polish people access safe abortions
With abortion effectively banned in Poland, campaigners are assisting people in crossing borders and ending unwanted pregnancies Read the full article on Huck
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Abortion Dream Team activist faces charges for helping with an abortion
Our friend Justyna is facing three years in prison for helping someone access abortion pills. We have the chance to help her. What happened?At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Justyna was contacted by Ania* who was in a desperate situation. Ania was in an abusive, controlling relationship, and was pregnant. She wanted…
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Multiple changes needed to abortion legislation as we are still forcing people to travel, says Abortion Rights Campaign and Abortion Support Network
The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) today launched their public submission for the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, urging the Government to decriminalise abortion in all circumstances. The submission draws on their report Too Many Barriers: Experiences of Abortion in Ireland after Repeal report and data provided by Abortion Support Network (ASN), which highlight the…
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Malta outsources its abortions to other countries, with hundreds asking charities for help every year
Abortion Support Network formally launched its services in Malta three years ago, on 14 February 2019 Since then, ASN has provided support and information to 269 people and provided £12,780 (€15,122) in grants In three years, British charity Abortion Support Network has supported 269 clients from Malta who were seeking information, logistics and financial support…
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One year on, Abortion Without Borders helps five times as many clients, and we mourn the third woman killed by Poland’s abortion laws
One year ago, a Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling declared the provision of abortion in case of foetal malformation to be ‘unconstitutional’ In this time, Abortion Without Borders saw a five-fold increase in requests for help, contacted by 32,888 people In a single year, there have been three confirmed deaths of pregnant women who were denied…
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Abortion Without Borders helps almost 32,000 Polish people in second year
Abortion Without Borders (Aborcja Bez Granic) has helped almost 32,000 people from Poland to access abortions in its second year of existence, in new figures released today. Abortion Without Borders is a grassroots feminist network that was launched on 11 December 2019 to help anyone in Poland access a safe abortion in Poland or abroad. In the face of fresh attempts by Poland to criminalise…
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Abortion access in Ireland still fails to meet human rights standards, hears UN body
The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC), Abortion Support Network (ASN), and Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR) urge the United Nations to hold Ireland to account at the Universal Periodic Review for violating the human rights of abortion seekers. The three organisations submitted a report to the UN outlining how the Irish State fails to protect human rights, ahead…
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Sonic Youth release 2 vintage concerts and t-shirts to raise funds for Fund Texas Choice and Abortion Support Network
In response to alarming restrictive legislative measures against the women of Texas and elsewhere, seminal NYC leading musical lights Sonic Youth have shared new releases to fundraise for Fund Texas Choice and Abortion Support Network. The band has made two vintage live sets available in full, from the Austin Music Hall, Austin, Texas from 1995…
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ASN joins Abortion Without Borders and activists in Poland to say “not one more”
We are devastated to hear about the death of a woman in Poland in September 2021 after being denied an abortion for an unviable pregnancy. The death was reported by legal counsel Jolanta Budzowska on 30 October and confirmed by her family on 1 November. It is the first reported fatality of the constitutional tribunal…
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Abortion Without Borders helps more than 34,000 people in Poland access abortions
A year ago – on 22 October 2020 – a Polish Constitutional Court decided that the provision of abortion in case of foetal malformation was unconstitutional. While the decision didn’t come into force until 27 January 2021, the change happened immediately. The next day, despite the still-valid provision of abortion under Poland’s abortion act, the…



