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TRADE unions and pro-choice campaigners in Scotland will mark this year’s International Women’s Day with a rally today to raise awareness of the global issue of abortion rights.
STUC women’s committee secretary Ann Henderson said it was important to use International Women’s Day to call for action to address the “inequality women face across the world in accessing abortion.”
Ms Henderson also drew attention to the draconian laws in Northern Ireland where abortion is still illegal unless women and girls seeking to terminate a pregnancy can prove their lives are at risk.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
