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…
A Leap Backwards in Time
The Foreseen Horror I remember once hearing a common urban myth. If you put a frog in boiling water, it would immediately leap out. However, if you placed that frog in cold water, which you slowly heated up, it would remain there until it boiled. Although an urban myth, it appears painfully relevant now. With over…
Safe and Legal Abortions are Under Attack in Italy’s Region of Molise
As of January 2022, the Italian region of Molise employs only one doctor who does not identify as a “conscientious objector.” In this context, the term refers to someone who refuses to perform abortions on the grounds of moral, personal or religious beliefs, and simply put, this means that women in Molise are currently being forced…
Menstruation Equity: We Can Do Better
The term ‘Menstrual Equity’ is used to describe menstruation as a driver of social and economic inequality resulting from staggering menstruation poverty, taboos, and stigma associated with menstruation. Period Poverty and Stigma: Hundreds of millions of girls and women across the world do not have access to hygienic sanitary products, clean and private toilets or clean…
The United Kingdom’s Decision to Cut Foreign Aid is having Catastrophic Effects on Women’s Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health.
The continued cut to foreign aid from the UK government has proved to be catastrophic for many countries in crisis and the NGOs providing support to them. Yemen, often considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, has had international aid from the UK violently cut by more than 60%. This has pushed more than 100 UK Charities…
