Our Chief Executive Clare Murphy is to leave us after 13 years furthering women’s reproductive rights and access to high quality healthcare at BPAS. Clare joined BPAS in 2010 to develop our advocacy and campaigning work, becoming Director of External Affairs and deputy Chief Executive before taking the helm in 2020. She has overseen significant changes for women - including the first progressive changes to our abortion laws since 1967, growing public support and understanding for the services women need and increasing women’s access to care across the UK while being a prominent and principled advocate for the importance of reproductive choice across women’s lifetimes.
Lucy Moore, Executive Chair of BPAS said: “The Board of Trustees is incredibly grateful for all Clare’s work over the years, including leading our organization through the Covid pandemic and navigating the many and varied challenges it brought. During her time at BPAS she has been instrumental in achieving significant, progressive change for women’s access to abortion including through our groundbreaking Pills by Post service, leading award-winning advocacy to drastically reduce the cost of emergency contraception and to create safe access zones around clinics, while at the same time championing women’s right to reproductive autonomy and choice across their lifetimes. Her shoes will be very hard indeed to fill. We wish her all the very best for the future and her next role.”
Clare Murphy said: “BPAS plays such an important role in so many women’s lives, and has played a huge one in mine. It has been an immense privilege to work for this organization with its wonderful staff, supporting women’s needs when they face an unwanted pregnancy and ensuring no woman’s life, health or wellbeing is compromised because she can get pregnant. While I have always been energized by the fight for women’s reproductive rights, my hope one day is that this will be an area of women’s healthcare we no longer have to fight for. I will always be cheering BPAS on as it continues to advocate for the abortion services women need and to deliver the healthcare to match, and I look forward to taking everything this organization has taught me into my next challenge.”
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