The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held Tuesday, April 6 at 4 p.m. at The Quaker Square Inn at The University of Akron, 135 South Broadway, Akron , Ohio . One hour of free continuing legal education credit will be …

A Georgia campaign is accused of drawing parellels between abortion and slavery and using the phrase ‘womb lynchings’ Anti-abortion activists have been accused of exploiting America’s tragic racial history with a growing campaign to persuade black women that the high rate of terminations among African Americans is a racist conspiracy on a par with slavery and lynching. The campaign, launched in Georgia, is targeting the black community with rallies, meetings in churches and colleges, and now billboards around Atlanta that describe black children as an endangered species and accuse abortion providers of targeting African Americans for what are described as “womb lynchings”. The strategy has also focused on the fact that one of the country’s leading abortion providers, Planned Parenthood , was founded by a woman who was a leading proponent of eugenics, a belief that the human gene pool could be improved by selective breeding and sterilisation, and who heavily promoted birth control among blacks.

What Human Rights Watch discovered in its investigations of abortion laws and pro-life groups in Ireland The Human Rights Watch report A State of Isolation: Access to Abortion for Women in Ireland accuses the Irish government of limiting information about how to access abortion services abroad.

Human rights group says women seeking information about terminations are told they will often cause irreparable damage The Irish government came under increasing pressure to overhaul its ban on abortion today, after it was accused of exposing women to “grossly misleading” information about the procedure. According to Human Rights Watch , Irish legislation – under which women who have an abortion in Ireland face a life sentence in prison if prosecuted – is putting women’s health at risk and exposing them to deliberate misinformation from rogue pro-life agencies

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Warren Hern is no ordinary doctor. He has lived under siege for 25 years, and seen eight of his colleagues assassinated

Click on Ohio on this map, and then holding your mouse over Akron (zip code 443xx), and it will show that $493833 was donated by individuals in the last Presidential Campaign. Hmmmm

A religion that is based on a code of moral injunctions should be approached warily ‘Do you think I should have an abortion, Vicar?” The woman huddled in my study armchair was distressed and embarrassed. Her partner had shot himself three days before owing to massive debts. We went through all the arguments for seeking a termination

Gynaecologist at the forefront of abortion reform Peter Diggory, who has died aged 85, was a talented and concerned obstetrician/gynaecologist who served generations of women at the Kingston hospital, Surrey, and the Royal Marsden hospital in London. In his quest for modern family planning and safe abortion he also helped establish policies and practices that helped millions of women around the world who would never know his name, but for whom he had helped open a door on the fundamental right to decide whether, and when, to have a child. Diggory was born in Titley, Herefordshire, the son of a stationmaster and the youngest of five children.

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