Battle for abortion rights in Spain
Paul Mason meets a Spanish generation who thought they’d fought and won the basic battles for women’s rights.
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A pregnant woman delivers an impassioned plea to anti-abortion protesters outside a GP clinic insisting they should stop “judging” women and making others “feel guilty”.
The ugly face of Twitter emerges again as violent threats and insults are levelled at a wannabe celebrity who has chosen to have an abortion to further her career.
Paul Mason meets a Spanish generation who thought they’d fought and won the basic battles for women’s rights.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt asks the attorney general for “urgent clarification” on the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute two doctors who agreed to gender abortions.
A major victory for the anti-abortion movement as the Texas senate approves a sweeping new bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks – but opponents vow to fight back.
The Irish parliament legalises abortion for the first time – but only in cases where the mother’s life is at risk from the pregnancy.
There’s a new front in the battle over abortion rights – Ohio – where sweeping restrictions have just come into force. And Texas takes up the debate again on a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks.
After tense talks, Ireland’s cabinet agrees a bill to allow abortion to save a mother’s life. But pro-choice groups tell Channel 4 News the victory is small and will only help “minority” of women.
A week after the inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar, the Irish cabinet is preparing the terms of the abortion bill, which is expected to permit an abortion if the mother’s life is at risk.
The Irish government says abortion laws will be “clarified” after the parents of a pregnant woman who died after being denied an abortion blame the country’s laws for her death.
The husband of a pregnant woman who died in Ireland after being refused an abortion tells Channel 4 News he “strongly believes” that she would be alive had doctors terminated the pregnancy.
As many as 400 anti-abortion activsts stage a demonstration against the opening of Northern Ireland’s first private abortion clinic.
The debate over lowering the time limit for abortions from 24 weeks could be reopened, after the health secretary became the latest cabinet minister to back a sharp tightening of the law on abortion.
Campaigners across 50 towns in the UK stage ‘pro-life chains’ on the anniversary of the abortion act of 1967. Pro-choice campaigners tell Channel 4 News the demonstrators are in the minority.
Britain’s biggest abortion provider has been subject to 2,500 hacking attempts in the last five weeks, amid concerns about the politicisation of the abortion debate and hostile targeting of women.