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Women in Scotland earn less than men, and are more likely than men to be in part-time or precarious work.

Regulation of abortion care in Scotland is in urgent need of modernisation, with the current framework acting as a drag on services and as a barrier to timely access.

Home Early Medical Abortion at Home Consultation Early Medical Abortion at Home Consultation The Scottish Government is currently consulting on whether it should make permanent changes to abortion services that were brought in

order to access safe, legal abortions. Organisations are calling on the Scottish Government to make a number of key changes around abortion services in Scotland to standardise access to abortion and make use of advances in medical abortion drugs

failure to decriminalise abortion completely, demonstrating that access to safe abortion is a fundamental health right, and deserves a rights-based approach in law. Making young people’s voices heard on abortion With 22 being the

dramatic representations of abortion in film and tv, which were described as a key source of knowledge on abortion. There is also the question of whether that term ‘abortion’ should be used at all. If you attend an NHS clinic in

has worked on access to abortion care since 2016 and the devolution of this policy area to the Scottish Parliament. During that time, we have identified issues relating to abortion law, access and care that serve to undermine women’s

Regulation of abortion care in Scotland is in urgent need of modernisation, with the current framework acting as a drag on services and as a barrier to timely access.

15 or under to undergo an abortion (115/36) Doctors should be required by new legislation to verify in person that a patient seeking an abortion is not under pressure from a third party to undergo the abortion (131/22)[2]

Home Engender blog | Abortion internationally – how does Scotland measure up? Engender blog Abortion internationally – how does Scotland measure up? On the International Day of Safe Abortion, Engender have released our