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29th November 2020

Keira Bell v Tavistock: Women’s Rights, Healthcare, and the Law

Poster from US 1970s women's campaign against forced sterilization

Categories: Children, Feminism, GIDS, Health, health care, History, Law, medicine, reproductive rights •
Tags: abortion, Conrathe, GIDS, Gillick, Helen Webberley, Keira Bell, NHS, NICE, obstetric violence vaginal mesh, RCOG, symphysiotomy •
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Keira Bell and the history of women’s rights, healthcare and the law In 1976 Loretta Ross sued and won a case against A. H. Robbins, the manufacturer of the contraceptive… Read More →

2nd July 2020

2020 WPUK submission Labour Party Policy Forum: health & social care

Categories: Demands, Discrimination, Health, health care, Labour, medicine, Politics, reproductive rights, sex •
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This is the submission we made to the 2020 Labour Party Policy Forum on health and social care. We welcome the opportunity to contribute to Labour’s national policy forum consultation.… Read More →

18th June 2020

There’s more than one way to ‘erase’ women – Women’s rights under attack in Victor Orban’s Hungary: Jayne Egerton

Categories: Discrimination, Health, History, Hungary, International, Law, medicine, Politics, reproductive rights, sex, Uncategorized •
Tags: CEDAW, Christian Right, far right, gender, gender ideology, Heritage Foundation, homosexuality, Hungary, Istanbul Convention •
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Jayne Egerton is a socialist feminist & radio producer. On 28th May Hungary’s Parliament signed a bill into law which ends legal recognition for transgender people. The votes of rightwing… Read More →

18th June 2020

House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee Transgender Inquiry: A critique

Categories: Children, GRA, Health, Policy, prisons, Violence •
Tags: WAPOW, Women analysing policy on women •
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This article has been republished here by permission of the authors. It was originally published on the Women Analysing Policy on Women website on 6th June 2017. A critique The… Read More →

14th June 2020

Health care is a human right: Judith Green

Categories: Health, Law, medicine, reproductive rights, USA •
Tags: abortion, discrimination, Judith Green, reproductive rights, Trump •
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Judith Green is a co-founder of Woman’s Place UK, works in women’s health and is a former user of single-sex services for female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Health care… Read More →