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Forthcoming Event

Abortion Rights : Global Safe Abortion Conference - Who's Right? Whose Choice? Who Cares?

• 23 and 24 October
• QEII Conference Centre, London SW1P

The Marie Stopes International Global Conference on Safe Abortion, in association with Ipas and Abortion Rights, will confront both international and national issues associated with abortion, focusing on rights, access, advocacy and funding.

The conference will build consensus and momentum around international efforts to reduce the unacceptable toll on women's health and lives caused by unsafe abortion, through increasing access to safe services, recognising women's right to self determination and encouraging legal reform.

The conference will also mark the 40th anniversary (27 October, 2007) of the United Kingdom's 1967 Abortion Act , review current barriers to access and issues of concern in UK provision and practice, and seek ways to remove any barriers.

Marie Stopes International and its conference associates, Ipas and Abortion Rights, believe that with the active participation of stakeholders from across the sexual and reproductive health community, the Global Conference on Safe Abortion will be a seminal event and a call to action, moving the safe abortion agenda forward.

Conference Themes: International

• Access to Safe Abortion as a Human Right
• The Impact of Unsafe Abortion Worldwide
• The International Response to Unsafe Abortion
• Barriers to Access
• Preventing Unwanted Pregnancy
• Scaling up Safe Abortion Services in Health Systems
• Mobilising the Grassroots
• Advocating for Reform
• Confronting the Opposition

Conference Themes: UK

• Barriers to Access
• Law Reform
• Northern Ireland
• Countering Opposition Tactics
• Increasing Choice and Improving Access
• Abortion in the Media
• Mobilising the Pro-choice Movement
• Reducing the Incidence of Abortion

Full details at http://www.globalsafeabortion.org/ including:

• Agenda Day 1 http://www.globalsafeabortion.org/agenda.html
• Agenda Day 2 http://www.globalsafeabortion.org/agenda_day2.html
• Speakers http://www.globalsafeabortion.org/speakers.html
• Brochure including UK Health stream http://www.globalsafeabortion.org/downloads/MSI%20Brochure%20Domestic%20-%20Aug.pdf
• International Brochure http://www.globalsafeabortion.org/downloads/MSI%20Brochure%20International%20-%20Aug.pdf
• Register http://www.neilstewartassociates.com/sh219/register.html