Abortion wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights - Softcover

Orr, Judith

 
9781447339113: Abortion wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights

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2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Britain's 1967 Abortion Act, but the struggle for abortion rights continues. Combining analysis of media coverage, statistics and social attitudes with accounts of women's experiences, Judith Orr argues that women should be able to control their fertility without practical, legal and ideological barriers.

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Judith Orr has decades of experience campaigning and writing on women's rights and abortion. She grew up in Northern Ireland where abortion is effectively illegal. She is an elected member of the executive committee of the national Abortion Rights campaign. As a journalist, she reported from Cairo's Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution, in particular highlighting the role of women in the struggle. She has written two previous books, Marxism and Women's Liberation and Sexism and the System, and has spoken on her work internationally including in Canada, Germany, Austria, South Korea, Ireland and Turkey.

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