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Abortion Rights : Are you pro-choice?

Abortion Rights has launched new 'speak out' campaign website to break the silencing taboo about being pro-choice or having an abortion and to lobby for liberalisation of the abortion law. Already, hundreds of people have taken five minutes to add their message of support.

Isn't it time your voice was heard, not just the Cardinals and anti-choice MPs?

Why not add your message now! http://www.prochoicemajority.org.uk

Get involved in the Pro-Choice Week of Action 20 - 27 October 2007

Abortion Rights is co-ordinating efforts to ensure the 40th anniversary of the Abortion Act is met with celebrations and support across Britain.

The 1967 Abortion Act has brought immeasurable benefits to women, which must not be driven back. All pro-choice supporters are encouraged to find ways of marking the week - from imaginative and attention-grabbing stunts, to articles in journals and newspapers, or just by wearing a sticker declaring your support for a woman's right to choose.

Here are some ideas to help you get planning!

• Wear a pro-choice sticker, badge or t-shirt - help break the taboo!
• Send a lobbying postcard or write a short letter to your MP.
• Take part in Abortion Rights national MP surgery lobby. All MPs have regular open surgeries where you can go and speak face to face. Abortion Rights is encouraging as many people as possible to visit their MP during the week of action.
• Raise awareness in your college or workplace with pro-choice balloons and posters.
• Organise an awareness-raising stall in your town centre, student union or workplace with a giant postcard to your local MP for people to sign.
• Organise a film screening of Vera Drake, The Last Abortion Clinic In Mississippi or Speak Out - I Had An Abortion.
• Write a letter to your local paper.
• Encourage friends, colleagues and family to join Abortion Rights. The more members we have the stronger our voice!

In this 40th anniversary year of the 1967 Abortion Act, Abortion Rights is calling on the government for a modern abortion law and improved services - it is time women, not two doctors make the abortion decision, and that intolerable weeks of NHS delays were a thing of the past.

Abortion Rights' opinion poll, published on International Women's Day, shows that a massive three quarters of people in Britain still support a woman's right to choose an abortion. Yet the tiny minority who want to see abortion criminalised, still dominate the debate and silence the pro-choice majority.

This new site is a taboo-busting, silence-breaking opportunity for all those who are proud to support women's fundamental rights!

'Speak out' websites in the US and elsewhere have been influential in shaping the abortion debate - shifting media attention back on to women. You can help by forwarding this call on to friends and colleagues to make the numbers of contributors overwhelming and the message unmissable!

If you too are impatient for change, please join Abortion Rights today and help build a pro-choice movement to take women's rights forward and put a stop to cruel attacks on women's hard fought for rights.