Paragraph 219a criminalises doctors who wish to provide information about abortion. Its history goes back a long way and points to the scandal that even today there is no right to abortion in Germany.1 The Kristina Hänel “case” has pushed… Continue Reading
Few in Ireland would have imagined, even a couple of years ago, that a vote to liberalise abortion would be so decisively won. The referendum on 25 May that repealed the Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution which made abortion… Continue Reading
A review of Judith Orr, Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Policy Press, 2017), £12.99 Abortion is as old as womanhood. Throughout history, abortion has been a necessary and accepted part of women’s lives. However, rights to abortion have… Continue Reading
Abortion has rarely been out of the headlines in 2016. Women have been leading an unprecedented surge of resistance to attacks on already limited rights to access to abortion. Mass protests at both ends of Europe, on its western shores… Continue Reading
A review of Michael Helquist, Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions (Oregon State University Press, 2015), £19 On May Day 1950 the dockers’ union in Portland, Oregon, presented a bouquet of 13 red roses and a poem to 78-year-old… Continue Reading