Malta’s parliament has voted in favour of Bill 28 that will decriminalise termination of pregnancy in case of risk to life or grave risk to health. Yes 42 - No 34.
🚨 🎉 We are just ONE WEEK away from the sixth International Conference on Family Planning!
Whether in person or virtually, we cannot wait to see you to innovate, collaborate, and accelerate toward achieving #FamilyPlanning for all.
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Empezando el día con una sesión de desayuno en colaboración con la Iniciativa Internacional del Parto y con la cofundadora de @gmdd_colombia Dra Laura Gil, enfocada en la atención respetuosa en el parto y el aborto. #FIGO2022
✨En el Congreso Regional de @figo_hq compartiendo con el Dr. @CristiaoRosas, fundador del Grupo Médico Brasil @docsforchoiceBR y con la Dra. @helenabmsparo
Ambas organizaciones conformamos la red global de médicos y médicas de @DocsforChoice @Arpistina1
#Abortion is health care. No matter whether:
🔸it’s needed to save the mother or not.
🔸the pregnant person experienced violence or not.
🔸the pregnancy was intended or not.
For every person, no matter their experience. Abortion is health care.
GOOD NEWS! 🎉Legislation was passed in England and Wales yesterday to establish #safeaccesszone outside abortion clinics, preventing demonstrations, protests & intimidating behaviour around the facilities. @BPAS1968
Congratulations to SisterSong co-founder and one of the mothers of the Reproductive Justice movement, @LorettaJRoss on being named as a member of the 2022 class of MacArthur Fellows. This is a much deserved honor! https://t.co/XjKOYqxjqN
Good Mental health is vital for people we serve and for ourselves! Today on #WorldsMentalHealthDay2022 we emphasize on selfcare for today’s and future healthcare providers.
Its okay to not be okay. You are being heard and YOU MATTER.
@MDFC_Rwanda@riseupforgirls@MSFC
People who have miscarriages need safe options, support, and care in the way that works best for them. They should be able to get the medications they need without facing unnecessary barriers. @US_FDA the mifepristone label should reflect the science.
Authors of this article examined the need for #telehealth services in #India as a means of increasing access to medical #abortion services and the structural barriers that prevent it from being an effective and equitable solution for all.
Read more: https://t.co/Nnvnt6XcUk
Pregnancies are too complicated to legislate.
“Any sort of legal or policy line is inherently going to be inadequate to capture all of the different, and honestly quite heartbreaking ways that pregnancy can go wrong,” Katrina Kimport explained.
Unsafe abortions were once the leading cause of hundreds of Ethiopian 🇪🇹 women’s deaths each year, but not anymore, here is how Ethiopia’s liberalization of abortion laws has significantly reduced their maternal mortality rate. #Abortionishealthcare
https://t.co/NYBjx0z0Sq
Today is #Sept28 International Safe Abortion Day 📣
Today and every day, we stand with advocates everywhere in the call to uphold and protect the human right to access safe abortion and to ensure #SafeAbortionRegardless of crises and injustices!
Join us: https://t.co/Omy8GPUpDg
Today was #Malta’s second rally for choice, and the for the first time a pro-choice march went through the main streets of #Valletta. A historic moment in the fight for repro rights.
In 2018, the Irish people voted overwhelmingly to end a national, near-total abortion ban. What can post-Roe America learn from Ireland's grassroots-led victory? I spoke to Irish activists to find out @Slate
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