Year: 2011
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Privatisation: changing the ethos of health care delivery
RHM is about promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights globally, but sometimes it’s important to focus on what’s happening at home. First, though, I need to acknowledge the heartbreaking devastation in Japan and say that this shouldn’t be seen as an isolated natural disaster. It (and the floods in Australia and the tsunami in…
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International Women’s Day
Today is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day! Congratulations to all the women of the world – for their activism, their strength, their persistence, and for surviving to live another day. We women have a lot to celebrate. If we look at the condition of women 100 years ago, we could say we’ve never…
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Medical abortion in Britain and Ireland: let’s join the 21st century!
Medical abortion – popularly known as the abortion pill – has been in the news almost non-stop for several months now in both Britain and Ireland, though for very different reasons. That’s good news because more women are getting to hear about it. Although the method has been around since the late 1980s, most women…
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Can we ever say a woman can’t choose?: a response to Frances Kissling
Can we ever say a woman can’t choose? It’s hard for pro-choicers to admit sometimes a woman shouldn’t be allowed to choose abortion – but we have to by Frances Kissling Salon, 21 June 2009. This article, which I’ve only recently discovered, was posted on the Salon website last year. Salon long ago closed the…