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planning, sexual health, and abortion healthcare is available on an equal basis as for all women” Sally Witcher, CEO of Inclusion Scotland said: “The failings of services when it comes to meeting disabled women’s

the procedure is legal - abortion and other aspects of reproductive healthcare are made so difficult to access. During the lunch break, these conversations continue at an informal level, women seeking out women whose perspective has resonated

Last night Engender's late Executive Director, Emma Ritch, was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Scottish Public Services Award 2021.

Engender responds to Scottish Labour's "Powers for a Purpose" report.

agreement. The 1967 Abortion Law. Younger women may not realise what a step forward this was. Before then, the only recourse was do-it-yourself or a back street abortionist, often ending up in a hospital ward where the nurses struggled

right for them, as well as abortion services, ensuring young women are aware of the options available to them in the result of an unintended pregnancy and are then supported through the route they decide to take. To begin the work, a meeting

be stopped. Responses to abortion rights also show how our bodies aren't ours to control, that they belong to others who should have no say in the matter. Photoshopped images of women mean that we literally aren't ourselves in much of

to Northern Ireland’s abortion laws in 2018. How does incorporation achieve accountability? We know that there is a huge difference between a state promising to give effect to human rights and being able to demonstrate how they

Engender and the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) have published a new report spotlighting women’s experiences of pregnancy and maternity services during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

such as: disability and abortion ; all-women shortlists [3] ; the beauty myth and sexuality ; pregnancy and motherhood ; female disabled political candidates[4] ; sexual harassment ; and the lack of representation of women with disabilities