Earlier this week we were in Westminster for the launch of the Women’s Health Strategy. For the 1st time, there is a comprehensive NHS plan to improve abortion & contraception services in England - an important shift after years of being overlooked. Important progress. Now it needs to be delivered.
VOTING DAY IS TODAY
This vote could help end investigations and clear records for those impacted by outdated laws.
👉 We have until 4PM to contact Lords and urge them to attend and vote.
No woman should be punished for healthcare.
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10,000 voices is powerful but we’re not finished yet. With just 24 hours left, every single email matters. Tell the House of Lords to decriminalise abortion for women and girls
Take action now. Every email counts.
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5 top words used by patients to describe BPAS services: Supportive, kind, helpful, understanding, caring.
Supportive. Helpful. Kind. Understanding. Caring.
These aren’t just words, they’re the values our teams bring to their work every day of the year.
Thank you to every single person at BPAS for the care you provide, day in and day out.
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Our decade-long campaign to remove women from abortion criminal law helped deliver historic reform — with NC1 passing 379–137.
A huge win for rights, compassion and collective action - and we are delighted to be shortlisted for Best In-House Campaign by CharityComms
“It’s the kids that paid the price.” We welcome the end of the two child limit and urge ministers to move quickly to support families.
Contragestives offer non hormonal options, flexible use, more time to act, discreet control and a new approach to fertility. BPAS urges the Government to increase investment in contraceptive services. And we need you with us.
CharityComms Inspiring Communicator Awards 2025. Images of BPAS decriminalisation campaign with award details: Best in-house campaign, BPAS for the decriminalisation of abortion for women & girls in England and Wales
We’re thrilled our campaign to decriminalise abortion for women and girls has been shortlisted for ‘Best In-house Campaign’ at @charitycomms.bsky.social awards.
After 10 years of campaigning — and support from millions across the UK — this historic reform removed women from criminal law.
Text reads: Over 1.5 million children are currently living in households affected by the two-child limit. Next week Labour’s budget will reveal whether 350,000 children will be lifted out of poverty, and whether a further 800,000 will see reduced depth of poverty, by removing the two child limit.
Over 1.5 million children are affected by the two child limit, pushing families into poverty and limiting women’s choices. Labour’s budget will show if action will lift 350,000 children out of poverty. BPAS urges the government to remove this harmful policy.
This continued failure means that one woman every four days is forced to travel to England for essential healthcare.
We are calling on the Minister to deliver on her promise as a matter of urgency.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2558797...
We are delighted to join numerous other pro-choice organisations in launching #LetsChangeTheAct - a new campaign to reform Scotland’s outdated abortion law.
To find out more and get involved in this campaign, visit www.letschangetheact.co.uk.
New NHS data shows a sharp decline in contraceptive access. Contacts with SRH services down almost 48% in a decade. Funding cuts and service reductions are leaving women without choice. We need investment and innovation now.
New NHS data shows a sharp decline in contraceptive access. Contacts with SRH services down almost 48% in a decade. Funding cuts and service reductions are leaving women without choice. We need investment and innovation now.
As Baby Loss Awareness Week ends, we reflect on the words of MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social : there is no hierarchy of grief. Every experience of pregnancy loss - miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion - deserves compassion and care.
So-called crisis pregnancy centres masquerade as legitimate sources of medical information in order to mislead and manipulate vulnerable women.
Important piece from @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
We need to bring abortion legislation in to the twenty-first century so that we can provide the best possible care for all women in the UK who need it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
There is a persistent belief that abortion access in Europe is guaranteed - yet millions face barriers to timely, safe care. www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/the-myt...
With your monthly support BPAS can keep winning campaigns to protect abortion rights across the UK. www.bpas.org/our-cause/fu...
The Birth Companions Institute opened this week - a positive step forward in the UK to achieve better care, equity and justice for pregnant women, mothers and babies
Congratulations to @birthcompanions.bsky.social Institute on your launch.
At BPAS, we know how vital it is to have evidence-based advocacy shaping services and policy. We look forward to seeing the impact of your work, and to continuing to stand alongside you in the fight for reproductive justice.
This UK-first trial in Liverpool is a promising step towards breaking down access and wait-time barriers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A visual timeline of key dates in contraception. 1915-1995. 1921 Marie Stopes first birth control clinic 1984 - the first oral emergency contraception pill launched
A timeline of contraception from 2001-2023 2005 - BPAS starts providing contraception services to abortion care patients 2023 - NHS England commissioned pharmacies to provide oral contraception
From the first UK birth control clinic in 1921, to the pill, IUDs, emergency contraception, and now pharmacy provision — access has come a long way. But too many people still struggle to get the contraception that’s right for them.
We need more choice, better access, & innovation
Women's stories have been so essential to the campaign for change. This is the reality of an abortion law written decades before women could even vote. And it's why we are so delighted that change is coming. www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...
On Tuesday, MPs voted 379 - 137 to decriminalise women accused of ending their own pregnancies.
This is a landmark moment for women’s rights and the most significant change to our abortion law since the 1967 Abortion Act was passed.
Thank you to all who worked with us on this essential change.
With three hours of debate time going ahead in parliament next week what we can do is;
⛔Stop police arrests
⛔Stop investigations
⛔Stop women being taken from their hospital beds to interrogations
Ask your MP to support amendment NC1.
We’re already taking part in this reform in Scotland – and are determined to make the same change in England and Wales.
We are working with experts, medical bodies & healthcare providers towards a new Abortion Act – that will bring our law up to date, treating abortion like the healthcare it is which means no more 2 doctors required to approve, no more grounds to meet & ensuring our law reflects what we need in 2025
BPAS started the campaign to decriminalise abortion in 2012, and we are fully committed to delivering this. The urgent, distressing problem of women facing prosecution and jail cannot wait for abortion law to be reformed; and neither should reform be rushed.
Alongside @msichoices.org, NUPAS & BSACP we have written to MPs asking them to support NC1 - to make sure we solve the urgent issue of women being criminalised now, & make sure that any change to the wider law is properly considered & does not risk harming the very thing we’re all trying to protect
A decade of campaigning to change abortion law but we’re being silenced by TfL at our final hurdle.
In a few weeks MP’s will vote on amendment NC1 to the Crime and Policing bill. An amendment that will prevent the traumatic events shown on our ads.
Email your local MP bpas-campaigns.org
We haven't, but if you want to forward his response to policy[at]bpas.org we would be very happy to take it up with him!
