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abortion rights

Between “birth strike” and “race treason”: The history of Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code

Posted on 29th October 2018 by Camilla

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 →

Online only abortion rights, Germany, women's liberation

Ireland’s abortion victory: women’s lives, the liberal agenda and the radical left

Posted on 11th October 2018 by Camilla

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 The referendum on 25 May that repealed the Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution which made abortion… Continue Reading →

Analysis abortion rights, Ireland, women's liberation

A “choice” moment

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

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 →

Book reviews abortion rights, Ireland

The fight for abortion rights today

Posted on 16th December 2016 by Camilla

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 →

Article abortion rights, Ireland, Poland, women's liberation

Marie Equi, Wobbly

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

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 →

Book reviews abortion rights, IWW, United States
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