Abortion Rights is the UK national campaign working to defend and extend women’s rights to abortion.
Abortion law in the Britain is largely based on 1967 legislation which is outdated and unnecessarily restrictive, creating unfair barriers to women wishing to end an intolerable pregnancy. The 1967 rights were never extended to Northern Ireland forcing hundreds of women to travel to Britain and pay for services every year.
Since 1967 a well funded tiny minority opposed to all abortion have sought to chip away at the rights through pseudo-scientific, emotive and sometimes intimidating lobbying. Recent anti-choice campaigns have attempted to win support for reducing the abortion time limit.
Abortion Rights is leading the campaign to bring abortion law into line with public opinion so that women can make their own reproductive decisions without unfair obstruction.

We aim to:

Liberalise the current UK abortion law, to make abortion available on request at least in the first three months, and with only one doctor’s signature thereafter.

Improve women’s access to, and experience of , abortion – ensure all women in the UK have equal access to safe, legal, and free abortion.

Oppose any restrictions in women’s current rights and access to abortion.

Abortion Rights was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two long standing and influential campaigns - the National Abortion Campaign (NAC) and the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA).
Abortion Rights has the support of many women’s organisations, students groups including NUS and civil society organisations as well as national trade unions including T&G, UNISON, AMICUS, CWU, BECTU, RMT, UCL, ASLEF, TSSA, NAPO FBU, trade union regions, branches, sections and individual trade unionists.