
Latest Blogs
A selection of blogs from across the Federation

The Battle of Reframing: How anti-choice groups manipulate language to try to control the narrative
Reframing is one of the most powerful tools we have. Anti-choice movements have nefariously hijacked terms like “life” and “choice,” but we must reclaim them with accuracy and power.
01 December 2023
The ‘Red-Carpet model’ is aimed at providing adolescents and young people with a VIP experience as they access quality youth-friendly services at the facility.
10 June 2020
For Ireland, the pandemic is having a significant impact on the delivery of sexual and reproductive healthcare. Abortion has been legally accessible for fewer than two years in the country – has this bore the brunt of the hit?
14 May 2019
When the US administration expanded the Mexico City Policy (aka the Global Gag Rule), the impact on healthcare was felt immediately in hard-to-reach areas in countries like Lesotho. Thanks to emergency funds from SheDecides, Lesotho Planned Parenthood Association is slowly rebuilding.
14 May 2019
When the global gag rule was introduced, the Lesotho Planned Parenthood Association lost more than funding, it lost the years of hard work in building trust and relationships in communities. With the introduction of the Belgian funded, She Decides programme, relationships with impacted communities are slowly being rebuilt.
01 June 2018
The vote has repercussions outside of Ireland, bringing into even sharper focus Europe’s outliers – those remaining countries that still refuse to end forced pregnancy.
05 February 2018
Since 2014, the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) has provided comprehensive medical and psychological care to women and girls in Ireland who have experienced FGM. The FGM Treatment Service is publicly funded which enables the IFPA to provide care to affected women and girls free of charge.
