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Brazil’s only openly gay MP Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos leads the fight to legalise abortion
Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos does not pick the easy battles, nor does he pick the vote-winning ones. The first openly gay MP in Brazil, Mr Wyllys has always championed the conservative country’s minorities, whether they are gay, black, abused or exploited. But his latest fight concerns everyone. Women’s reproductive rights, including the right to […]
Read moreBattle over the unborn: “Anti-abortion protester showed me foetus doll”
BY PATRICIA DEVLIN – 14 MARCH 2015 Followed down the street and told my unborn baby had been ‘christened’ James, an anti-abortion protester pulls out a tiny plastic foetus doll from her pocket and tells me: “This is what your baby looks like”. I was told I would become suicidal, that I would regret […]
Read moreTerror attack at “Vessel” screening in Sweden
Three masked men stormed a screening of SXSW-winning abortion documentary Vessel (pictured) in Sweden on Sunday (December 7), setting off a smoke bomb that sent audience members fleeing in panic. The SXSW award-winning documentary, which focuses on activist Rebecca Gomperts and her pro-choice organization Women on Waves, was being screened at the Abortion Rights Festival […]
Read moreConscientious Objection and Abortion: A Global Perspective on the Colombian Experience
SPW recommends Georgetown Law School’s O’Neill Institute study (co-authored by Women’s Link) Conscientious Objection and Abortion: A Global Perspective on the Colombian Experience. Click here to access it in English. And here in Spanish.
Read moreMaking It More Affordable to Raise a Baby Won’t Make Abortion Demand Obsolete
by Amanda Marcotte March 3, 2015 – 9:39 am With their new paper, the Brookings Institution‘s researchers Richard V. Reeves and Joanna Venator set out to explain the dramatic difference in unintended childbearing rates between low-income and middle-class women, and how that discrepancy helps perpetuate inequality. Reeves and Venator certainly succeeded in this regard, showing how single middle-class […]
Read moreAbortion and Reproductive Rights in Latin America: Implications for Democracy
We are pleased to present this report on women’s reproductive rights in Latin America. In recent decades, women throughout the region have made tremendous strides towards securing equal rights in almost every sphere. Yet a number of challenges remain. Lack of access to reproductive health services, comprehensive sexuality education, and contraception prevent women from fully […]
Read moreAbortion in Brazil: a matter of life and death
The day after Jandyra went for an abortion her body was found mutilated beyond recognition. Donna Bowater reports on the plight of millions of women who put their lives in the hands of gangs running dangerous clinics ‘They don’t have consciences – they are monsters. These clinics are not thinking about the wellbeing of the […]
Read moreEl Salvador: Pardon for woman jailed for miscarriage, a triumph of justice
22 January 2015, 00:00 UTC A pardon granted by El Salvador’s Parliamentary Assembly to a young woman imprisoned after suffering a miscarriage is a triumph of justice and gives hope to the other 15 women languishing in jail on similar charges, said Amnesty International. In 2007 “Guadalupe” received a 30 year jail sentence after authorities […]
Read moreAnti-Abortion Stigma Is Not the Only Cultural Force Restricting Reproductive Rights
by Morgan Meneses-Sheets January 5, 2015 – 10:51 am For too many people in this country, the barriers to abortion have gotten so immense that individuals no longer have the ability to seek services. There may be laws that place obstacles like waiting periods in their paths. They may be struggling to make ends […]
Read moreWorking Paper, No.5 – Pope’s visit to Brazil, by Washington Castilhos
In 2007, the Pope’s visit to Brazil mobilized groups in opposition to the Vatican’s moral dogmatism. In support of these groups, SPW, in close collaboration with CLAM, has produced short articles to illuminate the larger social and political context within which the Pope’s visit occurred. This series of articles comprises the SPW 5th Working Paper […]
Read moreStigma Makes People Reluctant to Tell Loved Ones About Their Abortions, Says Study
by Renee Bracey Sherman November 4, 2014 – 2:08 pm This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together project. Several high-profile public figures, such as Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, Texas State Rep. Dawnna Dukes, and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, have recently made headlines by disclosing their abortions to the world. But […]
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