Abortion Rights AGM & public meeting coming up on Saturday 28th
@ UNITE the Union 33 – 37 Moreland Street London, EC1V 8BB
Pro-Choice Public Meeting 12pm
The Public meeting FREE and open to all – so come along and bring all your pro-choice friends!
This year’s meeting topic is ‘Building An Abortion Act Fit For The 21st Century’
Speakers:
Baroness Tonge
Baroness Tonge Baroness Tonge (Dr Jenny Tonge) worked as a doctor in the National Health Service in the UK for over 30 years, before entering the House of Commons as MP for Richmond Park in Surrey, in 1997. Her speciality in the NHS was Women’s Health. She was the Liberal Democrat spokesman for International Development for 7 years, and has been a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Population, Development and Reproductive Health since 1997. She now chairs the group and is President of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development. In recent years she has been first, a member of the group and then, the chair of the group producing three important papers which were presented to the UK government to help influence its thinking on priorities in International Development. i.e. ‘The Return of the Population Factor’ 2007 ‘Better off Dead’ 2009 ‘A Childhood Lost’, 2012
Dr Pam Lowe
Dr Pam Lowe is a senior lecturer at Aston University. Most of her teaching and research is centred around women’s reproductive health, with a particular interest in pregnancy, contraception and parenting. Recently she has worked on a number of projects including examining the construction of foetal alcohol syndrome in British newspapers and how policies around parenting are being reframed though an biologically-determined understanding of neuroscience
Abortion Rights AGM 2015 3pm
The public meeting will be followed by our AGM in which members will discuss policy and campaign for the coming year. All Abortion Rights members are most welcome and we would be delighted if you were able to join us at the event.
For more information visit the Facebook Page! Tickets for the AGM are available at our Eventbrite page.
So if you aren’t already a member, join up today and get involved in the future of Abortion Rights!
*To help cover the costs of the event, we ask individual members and representatives of our affiliates to contribute a registration fee of £5.00, or £2.00 for those who are unwaged. Please get in touch with the Abortion Rights office if you feel you cannot afford the registration fee*
We hope to see you there!
HERitage stall this Saturday 29th January at St Cuthbert's hall, Amble. Come along, see you there