Archives: Safe Abortion Day posts
POLAND- My Black Protest
The ongoing battle around fundamental reproductive rights in Poland becomes even more fierce. Since mobilization of pro-choice-minded people on the third of October in both 2016 and 2017 the major decision-makers have repeatedly suggested that they would support an abortion ban in cases of fetal malformation. Therefore, the Great Coalition for Equality and Choice would like to call your attention to our latest publication about the Black Protest and, more broadly, people’s personal stories about the moment when the personal became political for them. It portrays contemporary Poland mostly from the perspective of medium-sized cities and small towns.
USA- Racist anti-choice policies and activists
TWO STORIES: Anti-choice movement’s racist harassment of black women as told by Katie &
Immigrant minor held ‘hostage’ by Texas because she wants an abortion, by Tina Vasquez.
MALAYSIA – Getting the message across
WHEN parents find out that their 17-year-old school-going daughter is pregnant, the reaction would most probably be anger followed by murderous rage, more anger and then a feeling of failure before they finally settle down to decide how to deal with the situation and the stigma that comes with it.
UK – Two stories on abortion in adolescence
Teenage pregnancy: The choice that changed my life by Emily-Jane Clark. & I regret having an abortion, but that doesn’t mean I’m against it by Rachel.
USA- “The stakes are so high”: interviews with progressive journalists reporting on abortion
News frames can influence public and policy agendas, proponents of abortion access should be concerned with how this issue is covered in the news. While previous research has examined the content of news on abortion, this analysis explores the process of news-making on abortion, examining how journalists understand their role in and experience of covering abortion.
CANADA- The Politics of Abortion in Canada after Morgentaler: Women’s Rights as Citizenship Rights
This dissertation explores the regulation of abortion in Canada following the landmark R v Morgentaler decision (1988), which struck down Canada’s existing abortion law, causing the procedure’s subsequent reclassification as a healthcare issue. The resulting fragility of abortion rights is still evident in the varying provincial regulations governing the nature of access to the procedure. While access has been accepted as the new terrain of abortion rights, research into this area to date has taken a largely national focus, surveying provincial barriers and compiling lists of potential motivations for differences in service.
KENYA- Providers, unmarried young women, and post-abortion care in Kenya
Young women and girls in Kenya face challenges in access to abortion care services. Using in-depth and focus group interviews, we explored providers’ constructions of these challenges. In general, providers considered abortion to be commonplace in Kenya; reported being regularly approached to offer abortion-related care and services; and articulated the structural, contextual, and personal challenges they faced in serving young post-abortion care (PAC) patients.