Press releases

Commenting on the announcement from the Department of Health and Social Care that the ‘morning-after pill’ will be made available "free of charge at pharmacies on the NHS for the first time ever, ending the postcode lottery women face in accessing the medicine and reducing inequalities".

“BPAS is proud to have led the campaign to introduce these zones, proud to have spent nearly 60 years fighting for women’s health and rights, proud to provide abortion services in an overwhelmingly pro-choice country, and will always remain proud to stand against misogynistic and anti-democratic interference with British women’s reproductive rights by nefarious foreign extremists, whether they are the Vice President of the US or not.”

A new study has found that found “a shift in contraception use from more reliable hormonal methods of contraception to less reliable fertility awareness-based methods of contraception among abortion patients in England and Wales in 2018 and 2023.”

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Amnesty International UK have come together to host a screening of Zurawski v Texas, a film about a group of women denied abortions in Texas who band together with a fearless attorney to sue the state government. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion as we come together for an evening of resistance on the day of the Presidential inauguration.

Heidi Stewart, CEO of BPAS, said:
“To every woman feeling fear, anger, and uncertainty today: we hear you, we stand with you, and we will fight for you. Abortion access is not a privilege to be granted or revoked by political leaders; it is a fundamental human right owed to every woman.

After a decade of BPAS’s campaigning, and 18 months since the law was passed overwhelmingly by Parliament – safe access zones will today come into force in England and Wales.