How online helplines are providing support for people seeking abortion in Kenya. This is so important due to the risks posed by unsafe neighbourhood abortions and an often judgemental healthcare system:

Margate #queer library is hosting an event and a residency on #censorship in British media and literature in October:

While US cuts to #aid are making headlines, UK cuts may also potentially be devastating to the world's poorest people:

From hallucinated books to slop, how AI is impacting library work: www.404media.co/librarians-a...

RTÉ exposé shows how location #data is tracking people in Ireland, including into IVF and women's health clinics. This data is then being packaged and sold by international data brokers: www.rte.ie/news/primeti... #privacy

Social media companies are suppressing #abortion content on frivolous grounds: www.eff.org/pages/our-st...

Opposition to enshrining abortion rights in the constitution of Luxembourg:

Report finds hundreds of Inuit women and girls were forcibly given contraception in Greenland: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e... #reproductivejustice

How criminalisation, conscientious objection, mandatory counselling and mandatory delay periods create #abortion access issues in Germany:

Indiana (USA) defends law barring doctors from giving minors abortion info:

Addressing the legal vacuum for abortion access in Korea:

How conflict is impacting sexual and reproductive healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

Afghan women continue to resist, despite incredible risks and dangers. "[Our] Silence is not an option" for them:

Solidarity with all resisting the proposed library cuts in Brighton and Hove. Consultation is open until 10 October.

"Poland: End investigation into conduct of doctor who provided a lawful late-term abortion" Amnesty International:

“But history is not meant to comfort — it is meant to confront. And only in confrontation do we find the lessons that lead us forward,” Toni Draper:

Libraries are more than just storage spaces for books. Librarians are, and should be, part of key staff members:

Plans to close Cardross, Tarbert, Tiree and Rosneath libraries (Scotland) are withdrawn, for now anyway! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

By using a listed building, the artist will draw more attention to the oppressive nature of law for protesters in the UK: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/08/n...

Central African Republic ratifies the Maputo Protocol on women's rights:

Hyperemesis gravidarum is an absolutely miserable condition. It's heart-breaking that potentially effective medicine is not available to all those who need it:

"RFK Jr [USA] demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal [Annals of Internal Medicine] said no"

New resource introduced to address lack of available information about ectopic pregnancies in Ireland:

Access to many important works of literature is at risk for some children in Edmonton, Canada, due to a ministerial order claiming to protect them from 'indecent' materials:

Reproductive medicine among one of the areas badly hit by the health emergency in Botswana due to the price of drugs and supply shortages: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It is so difficult sometimes to draw a line between becoming informed and being exposed to content that increases anxiety. Perhaps facilitated birth plans, where a trusted person talks you through what can happen, options and records wishes, can help #pregnancy www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The UK is “seeing a much more professionalised crisis pregnancy centre operation”, possibly due to US funding, according to BPAS:

How medical obstruction forces abortion seekers to use the private sector in India. TW: foetal outline on a statistical graph

How criminalisation of abortion risks the lives of pregnant people in the Dominican Republic:

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings Paul Delaroche, "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey" www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pa... #art

Campaigners in Caerphilly (Wales) are fighting to stop local libraries from closing:

What is being carried out in Gaza is a feminist issue: doi: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

"Digital tools cannot substitute for doctors or hospitals, but they can offer discreet, practical, and sometimes life-saving support."

Due to the huge influence US culture has on the English-speaking world, censorship there is a concern to so many of us: artreview.com/over-150-us-...

'natural' wellness methods and the anti-IVF movement: www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Florida, USA abortion pill boat spreading the message: "MIFEPRISTONE AND MISOPRISTOL" floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/21/a...

How libraries can protect abortion access and fight against abrotion misinformation:

Caution in Suffolk as libraries are to be returned to council management.

I spotted one of these in the wild yesterday. It's an important message to have out there. Protecting police image should not be the most important thing here, letting people know abortion is still criminalised and that that they can take action is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Gestational limits for abortion impact the most vulnerable pregnant people: those who can't get timely help, who didn't know they were pregnant, who get sick or when there are serious foetal medical issues. Later abortions are vital, needed medical interventions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Vital abortion-related content is apparently being blocked by Meta – potentially putting women at risk" www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/heal...

"Doctors’ leaders condemn police advice to search for abortion drugs after pregnancy loss" www.bmj.com/content/389/...

‘I gave birth three months early – then police investigated me over an illegal abortion’ www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

I do get asked why the US gets so much attention. The answer is because anti-abortion anti-lgbt campaigners from the US influence and support policies around the world:

A key reason why medication abortion is the target for anti-abortion campaigners in the US; it helps people bypass abortion bans.

What Nicola Packer had to endure is so wrong. We need decriminalisation of abortion, yesterday.

The emerging battle strategy for anti-abortion campaigners in the US: targeting mifepristone licencening

UNFPA calls on the US not to stop funding under anti-abortion and anti-sterilisation pretences: news.un.org/en/story/202...

"...restrictive abortion laws do not regulate the occurrence of induced abortions; they only make abortions less safe." How unsafe abortion remains an issue in Kenya: aphrc.org/wp-content/u...

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