Abortion rights

We are campaigning to change abortion laws in Britain and Northern Ireland.

Time for change in Northern Ireland

Time for change is an FPA campaign to change the current abortion law in Northern Ireland.

Women in Northern Ireland are denied the same rights to abortion as women in England, Scotland and Wales. They are not entitled to an abortion even if they've been raped, been a victim of incest or had a diagnosis of fetal abnormality.

More about the Time for Change campaign.

Modernise the current abortion law in Britain

FPA is campaigning to modernise how abortion services are delivered and to change British abortion law.

To access an abortion a woman must go through an old-fashioned, bureaucratic process, put in place by the 1967 Abortion Act. This process was created to protect women from back street abortions and reflects a time when new techniques like medical abortion were not available.

Apart from a change to the time limit in 1990, the law determining how abortions are carried out has not changed since the 1960s.

More about our work to modernise abortion law.

Contact the FPA campaign team

Gerry Halliday, Press and Campaigns Officer
Tel: 020 7608 5264
Email gerryh@fpa.org.uk

Rebecca Findlay, Press and Campaigns Manager
Tel: 020 7608 5265
Email rebeccaf@fpa.org.uk