Arizona Abortions Laws: Looking To A Dangerous Past
The restarting of a nearly 100-year-old abortion law across the State of Arizona has sent shockwaves across the nation, as Republicans in the judicial and political spheres appear to double down on the dated piece of legislation. Fourteen states across the USA, in all pregnancy stages, have abortion bans in force. The curtailment of reproductive rights…
Greenland: A Systemic Violation of Bodily Autonomy
For years Greenland’s women voiced the grievous harm that they had endured at the hands of the Danish state, with them now demanding, and no longer asking, for justice. Sadly, It is no surprise that women’s bodily autonomy and their right to form their own life decisions are being violated by states’ actions. Such situations are…
Sharing Solidarity with Our Pregnant Sisters in Palestine
Content warning: includes disturbing details of the suffering of women and children in Gaza. In early November 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) article, Women and newborns bearing the brunt of the conflict in Gaza, reported that [according to various humanitarian agencies] “women, children, and newborns in Gaza are disproportionately bearing the burden of…
Poland’s Abortion Rights – A Tale of Repression & Suffering
Political and legal maneuverings, far removed from the reality of the everyday populace’s concerns and desires, have seen the nation’s already draconian abortion rights measures be rolled back further to the detriment of those who wish to exercise their bodily autonomy and those who wish to assist them in such an endeavor. A Healthcare System…
Handmaid’s Tale: Dystopian Future Or Existing Reality?
Based on the 1985 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the Handmaid’s Tale is an American TV series created by Bruce Miller. The Handmaid’s Tale depicts a dystopian future taking place in Gilead, a totalitarian state where patriarchal norms and misogyny are enforced to the highest degree possible. In Gilead’s society, handmaids are women who are…
Fake Abortion Care – an Issue That Extends Across the Pond and Calls for Global Action
In virtually every part of the world, accessing abortion care is already complicated enough. When one of the biggest tech companies in the world sanctions misinformation on its platform, the task can go from complicated to dangerous. The Problem in the U.S. When one searches for “abortion clinics” on Google, some studies have found fake clinics…
UK Abortion Rights: A Win for Sanity and Humanity
House of Commons hands a major victory to pro-choice parties, passing an amendment establishing buffer zones outside abortion clinics in England and Wales. While access to abortion services, free of harassment, abuse, and political and judicial nefarious interference, appears to be becoming a more difficult endeavor in nations across the globe, there are…
US Abortion Rights: Republicans Reject Reason & Embrace Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy appears to be a characteristic that many politicians, the world over, have enthusiastically adopted, whether due to the knowledge that such a lack of integrity would not harm them politically or by sheer ignorance or greed. For the purposes of this piece, however, let’s narrow our focus to The US Republican Party’s Senator from…
UK Abortion rights: The First Shots Fired
At a time when abortion rights are acutely under fire, it seems that the cowardly Conservative Party feels emboldened enough to reveal its true nature. That of an administration whose compassion towards those wishing to exercise their bodily autonomy, appears non-existent, as evidenced on the world stage recently. The international ministerial conference on freedom of religion…
Abortion Rights in the UK- A Looming Shadow
With the recent horrific news coming out of the US, constituting the overturning of Roe v. Wade; a judicial ruling which had previously enabled women to exercise their fundamental right to bodily autonomy; a collective shiver ran down the spines of people across the globe. Anxious persons glanced nervously around contemplating whether their own…
