This just came through on the email, and I'm so excited! Even though it's a year away, lol. Hope I'll still be in the UK to get behind it.
November 2006
Marie Stopes International
Global Conference on Abortion
23-24 October 2007
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Westminster
It's to mark the 40th Anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act in the UK (itself a paternalistc piece of legislation which we need to lobby to change). The conference will not address the clinical issues around abortion, but will instead call on governments, funders, and decision makers from the UK, Europe and in the developing world to do something concrete to reduce the appalling loss of life due to unsafe abortion.
At least 70,000 women die every year due to unsafe abortion.
Despite all the rhetoric, promises and international commitments to reduce maternal mortality and provide women everywhere with access to quality sexual and reproductive health services, this death toll has remained unchanged for decades. This will be a great opportunity to lobby governments, hold them accountable and put abortion at the top of the national and international agenda!
For more information, please contact Tony Kerridge on+44 (0)20 7574 7353 or Diana Thomas on +44 (0)20 7574 7416 or email press@mariestopes.org.uk
If you are interested in attending this event, please contact LauraBrownlee on0207 324 4372 or email laura.brownlee@neilstewartassociates.co.uk
6 comments:
World estimations of the number of terminations carried out each year is somewhere between 20 and 88 million.
3,500 per day / 1.3 million per year in America alone.
50% of that 1.3 million claimed failed birth control was to blame.
A further 48% had failed to use any birth control at all.
And 2% had medical reasons.
That means a stagering 98% may have been avoided had an effective birth control been used.
I'd like to see effective birth control made available to all who can't afford it.
People need to stop using abortion for birth control....
Please refer me to the study from which these figures are taken. I have a research degree in which I did a lot of quantitative research and I would love the opportunity to do a thorough statistical anaylsis of these 'figures'.
I think you may also have the wrong idea about the pro-choice movement and what we are asking for. We do not like abortions and we too would like adequate and free contraception and sexual health services for all.
However, the way to campaign for that is not through restricting women's reproductive choices, which would only increase the number of women who die unnecessarily each year from unsafe illegal abortions. I also find your claim that women use abortion as a form of birth control highly suspect. But even if they did, the right to bodily integrity would override such value judgements.
You seem to spend a lot of time randomly searching for pro-choice blogs and responding with botched ideological stats. May I suggest you find another hobby?
PS. You name wouldn't be Tony Abbott by any chance would it?
This looks fantastic, I hope I can go. Aus blog: get a fucking grip, you are a laughing stock.
If conception is NOT when life begins,and a clump of cells is just that and not a living human being.
Then at least concider this-
Soon after you were conceived you were no more than a clump of cells.
This clump of cells was you at your earliest stage, you had plenty of growing to do but this clump of cells was you none the less. Think about it.
Aren't you glad you were left unhindered to develope further.
Safe inside your mother until you were born.
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