Global Day of Action for Safe and Legal Abortion
September 28 Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion has its origin in Latin America and the Caribbean where women’s groups have been mobilizing around September 28 the last two decades to demand their governments to decriminalize abortion, to provide access to safe and affordable abortion services and to end stigma and [...]
Read More28 September STATEMENT: Central American Women’s Network, London The criminalisation of abortion is killing women Imprisoned for 30 years for having a stillbirth. Denied life-saving cancer treatment when 6 weeks pregnant. Forced to carry a rapist’s baby at the age of 12. This is reality for women and girls who live under Central America’s abortion [...]
Read MoreIn spite of increased attention to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and particularly to maternal mortality, in spite of the development of effective technologies to make abortion very safe, and in spite of the growing involvement in women’s health issues on the part of UN agencies, many governments, and a large number of NGOs – as well as women’s health advocates – pregnancy-related deaths and unsafe abortion remain a major public health problem in large parts of the world. Most countries that allow women to die in childbirth also allow them to die and suffer from unsafe abortions. Why?
Read MoreCALL TO ACTION – 28 SEPTEMBER 2012 SAFE AND LEGAL ABORTION – A QUESTION OF RIGHTS, A QUESTION OF DEMOCRACY Each year, about 4 million women in Latin America and the Caribbean decide to abort in full consciousness. The laws governing the practice of abortion range from limited authorization to complete prohibition, however, in any [...]
Read MoreCall for Action – Mobilise for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion on September 28 In commemoration of September 28 – The Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion and in solidarity with the September 28 Campaign for Decriminalisation of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Women’s Global Network [...]
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