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If you think abortion rights in the UK are safe, then you haven’t been paying attention.

In the UK, 1 in 3 women will have an abortion in their lifetime. Yet we still do not have the right to choose.

Did you know that:

  • Under a law passed in 1861, any woman who ends their own pregnancy at any gestation without the approval of two doctors is committing a crime – which carries a sentence of up to life imprisonment;
  • In 2022, two women were charged with the offence of trying to end their own pregnancies, while others have faced lengthy criminal investigations;
  • Every week, women in Great Britain face anti-choice harassment outside clinics;
  • The current Minister for Women in the UK Government has repeatedly voted to restrict access to abortion care, and tried to block moves to legalise abortion in Northern Ireland?

At the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, BPAS, alongside providing compassionate, NHS-funded abortion care to over 100,000 women a year, we lead the fight for abortion rights in the UK.

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BPAS Campaigns

Join us as we fight for a future where everyone can exercise reproductive autonomy and women are empowered to make decisions about pregnancy. Find out more.

 

Back off

 

Anti-abortion protests are on the rise. Help us protect clinics and those that need them. #BackOff

 

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Friends of BPAS

If you believe reproductive choice is a woman’s right, there has never been a more important time to join us. 

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Roe v Wade

In the United States, the Supreme Court has removed women's access to abortion care. We stand against this body blow to reproductive rights and women's bodily autonomy.

 

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Emergency contraception

Emergency contraception is an essential part of women's healthcare. Help us make it available, affordable, and accessible for everyone who needs it.

 

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Care Not Criminalisation

 

We're working to take abortion out of the criminal law.


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Fair IVF

 

Campaigning for fair, equitable access to fertility treatment. #FairIVF

 

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