Polyphonies: Global Abortion Voices Resource Guide

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The Intercept. Trump’s Vision for America: I Am God. The Intercept, March 7, 2025. Talia Lavin, journalist and author of “Wild Faith,” on the right-wing Christian ideology and characters guiding Trump.

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/07/briefing-podcast-trump-christian-right-talia-lavin/.

Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion, 2023.

Description: Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled to federally decriminalize abortion, finding that the current ban on the procedure is unconstitutional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDz8e_IVmrk

Colombia decriminalises abortion following regional ‘green wave’. 2022.

Description: “Ya es ley.” Now it’s law. That was the chant that echoed outside Colombia’s Constitutional Court building Monday in a sea of green handkerchiefs. In a landmark decision, the court decriminalised abortion procedures up to 24 weeks of gestation, paving the way for greater abortion access in the largely Catholic country.

For 15 years, Colombian law allowed for abortions only under three circumstances: if the mother’s life was endangered, if the pregnancy was a product of rape or if the fetus was fatally deformed. After 24 weeks, those same three exceptions apply. The case came as a feminist “green wave,” referring to the bright green bandanas pro-choice advocates sport, sweeps across Latin America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCnb1ZtL1N4

Green Tide Rising. We all have different ways to contribute | Ximena Casas. 2024.

https://www.instagram.com/ashadahya/reel/DCSGaxvSUGH/

Colombia Legalizes Abortion Up To Six Months Sparking Controversy. 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdX5paq-Ug8

4) NORWAY

Interview with Dr. Kari Løvendahl Mogstad, by Viktoria Dauer. April, 2025

5) ITALY

Giletti Intervista Giorgia Meloni Sull’aborto: “Non Intendo Abolire o Modificare La Legge 194,” 2022.

Description: Giorgia Meloni once and for all clarifies her thoughts on law 194 on abortion: "In what language should I tell you? Tomorrow some pseudo-feminist will attack me anyway saying that it's not what I really want"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpNEh_4mZk.

6) POLAND

Aborcja: Fakty vs Mity z Cyklu Strajk Kobiet W MOIM STYLU | Magda Mołek, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K7oGo6PkXw.

Appio Digital. True Story, Episode 41: 5 Pills Away | DOKweb.

Description: Ivona Remundová discusses with director Karolina Domagalska and producer Anna Stylinska their documentary 5 Pills Away about four women friends from Abortion Dream Team who step in and lead a revolution when Polish government introduces a near-total abortion ban.“ https://dokweb.net/articles/detail/1360.

7) SOUTH AFRICA

Access to Safe Pregnancy Termination, 2018.

Description: The likes of Amnesty International, Sonke Gender Justice and Medecins Sans Frontieres are embarking on a #MyBody, MyChoice campaign' to challenge the stigma associated with pregnancy termination. Abortion has been legal in the country for over 20 years since the adoption of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996. But, these organisations say due to limited services, discrimination and the ineffectiveness of this law, women and girls are forced to use illegal services which sometimes lead to deaths. But...others are completely opposed to the whole idea of abortion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UA6ZkdTK_4.

8) MOZAMBIQUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4vJg3Lf1c

Description: How are we helping end the stigma of abortion in Mozambique? Katia Amado, Pathfinder International Project Director in Mozambique, shares her work. “To change the environment around us we need to change ourselves first from within - by discussing and accepting that safe abortion saves lives and is a second chance for a person to contribute actively in society.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLXE2ynR7H8

Description: Doctors Without Borders (MSF), together with the Ministry of Health in Mozambique, has assisted women in carrying out safe abortion procedures. Unsafe abortion has led to complications such as the deaths of the baby, the mother, and sometimes both. Doctors Without Borders provides life-saving medical care to people based only on need – irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. On the frontlines, MSF Staff are courageous and committed doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. They focus on adapting care to the needs of people facing crises.

9) INDIA

Supreme Court Allows Unmarried Woman To End Pregnancy At 24 Weeks. 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ8aqErbCOI

10) CHINA

The F Word. 66.生育特别系列第一期 | 我们在奔向一个堕胎越来越难的未来？2024.

https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/655a20f28fb8b597a29f8a65

Description: We will use three episodes to try to figure out why we feel unfamiliar and afraid of childbirth, an act that has a long history and is directly related to us. This episode wants to answer three questions: Why is abortion becoming more and more difficult? Why does achieving abortion freedom not mean childbirth freedom? What is the picture of our ideal childbirth freedom?