The Calthorpe Clinic , (now Marie Stopes International Birmingham), was an abortion clinic in Edgbaston , Birmingham , England that first opened in 1969. It was the first clinic in the United Kingdom opened exclusively for abortions. It was erected at Arthur Road, in a building that was previously an old people's home and started out with 18 beds. The clinic provided surgical and medical terminations for thousands of women each year. By the 2000s, it also provided sterilisation , and vasectomy services.
23-567: In 1971, the cost of an abortion at the Calthorpe Clinic was £65, including the initial consultations, tests, counselling and overnight accommodation. By 2007, the establishment was the single largest abortion clinic in the UK with an annual caseload of around 10,000 clients. Approximately 85% of the caseload was on contract to the NHS . Due to the relative proximity of Birmingham to Ireland, and
46-778: A buffer zone is enforced to prevent protesters from standing within a certain distance of the clinic entrance. In the United States these buffer zones have been the subject of many lawsuits and legislative actions on both statewide and national levels. In 2014 the Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Massachusetts bill that had legalized a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics in the state in 2007. Abortion clinics have frequently been subject to anti-abortion violence. The New York Times cites over 100 clinic bombings and incidents of arson, over 300 invasions, and over 400 incidents of vandalism between 1978 and 1993, and
69-458: A UK medical organisation, hospital, or association is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This abortion -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Abortion clinic An abortion clinic or abortion provider is a medical facility that provides abortions . Such clinics may be public medical centers, private medical practices or nonprofit organizations such as Planned Parenthood . Abortion
92-410: A clinic with the purpose of procuring an abortion, but sees a fellow student protesting outside the clinic who tells her that the fetus " has fingernails ". This causes Juno to change her mind about having an abortion, and she leaves the clinic, with her friend calling out to her, "God appreciates your miracle." Another tactic in which protestors film or photograph patients entering the clinic utilizes
115-564: Is a research and policy NGO that aims to improve sexual health and expand reproductive rights worldwide. The organization was started in 1968 and functions as both a research and educational organization. It operates mainly in the United States but also focuses on developing countries. Founded as part of Planned Parenthood , the Guttmacher Institute became independent from Planned Parenthood in 2007. The institute
138-555: Is known as " sidewalk counseling ", in which they warn people entering the clinic about risks of abortion , attempt to offer alternatives to abortion or show pictures of fetuses . In 1985, 85% of abortion providers were experiencing either picketing, clinic blockades or invasion of the facility, with 19% of providers receiving bomb threats and 16% were picketed at their homes. In 2000 82% of facilities received protests with 61% receiving 20 or more pickets. The 2007 film Juno contains an example of such protest. The protagonist enters
161-518: Is named after obstetrician-gynecologist and former president of Planned Parenthood Alan F. Guttmacher . The Guttmacher Institute has many sources of funding nationally and internationally. One of its projects is keeping a running list of the reproductive health laws and policies throughout the United States. The former CEO Dr. Herminia Palacio left the Institute in late 2023. The Institute adopted an interim co-leadership model in early 2024, while
184-750: The National Abortion Federation , an organization of abortion providers, cites over 300 attempted or completed instances of bombing or arson, thousands of invasions and vandalism incidents, as well as other attacks, between 1977 and 2009. According to the NAF, the first instance of arson at an abortion clinic took place in March 1976 in Oregon, and the first bombing was in Ohio in February 1978. In
207-765: The World Health Organization and the World Bank . The Guttmacher Institute was awarded $ 3.9 million between 1986 and 2015 by the MacArthur Foundation , including 13 grants in population and reproductive health. The Guttmacher Institute is not affiliated with a political party, and so it is nonpartisan in the strict sense of the word. The group work to "ensure that all women are able to exercise their reproductive rights and responsibilities", which puts them among advocates of abortion rights. According to FactCheck , Guttmacher "provides
230-550: The Board of Directors searches for permanent leadership. Jonathan Wittenberg and Destiny Lopez are currently interim Co-CEOs. Founded in 1968, the Guttmacher Institute was originally called the Center for Family Planning Program Development and was a branch of Planned Parenthood . After Alan Guttmacher's death, the Center for Family Planning Program Development was renamed and became an independent non-profit organization. In 2007,
253-584: The Guttmacher Institute uses statistical models to give an approximation of the number of abortions in places where they are illegal and/or the abortions happen outside of formal health care settings. In 2013, the Guttmacher Institute was awarded a Population Center grant by the US National Institutes of Health in support its Center for Population Research Innovation and Dissemination. The Guttmacher Institute has received Charity Navigator 's highest (4-Star) rating annually since 2010. When
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#1732780277904276-471: The United States, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act was passed in 1994 in response to acts of violence at clinics, which prohibits the use of force or obstruction to interfere with a person's attempt to obtain or provide reproductive health services, and the intentional damage of a reproductive health care facility such as an abortion clinic. Guttmacher Institute The Guttmacher Institute
299-496: The country. The government tolerated these illegal clinics until 1976, when Minister of Justice Dries van Agt tried to close the Bloemenhove Clinic, which was promptly occupied by hundreds of pro-choice activists from numerous women's rights organisations. After a two-week standoff, a judge ruled in favour of the clinic, and Van Agt had to back down from taking the clinic by force. It would take until 1984 when abortion
322-739: The fact that abortion was illegal in Ireland, the clinic also had many Irish clients. It was approved by the Secretary of State for Health under the Abortion Act 1967 and regulated by the Healthcare Commission and had to meet the national minimum standards set by the Care Standards Act 2000 . In February 2012, allegations were made by The Daily Telegraph newspaper that the clinic would provide terminations when
345-482: The guise of increasing the safety of the procedure. Access to abortions is extremely limited, particularly in rural and conservative areas. According to the Guttmacher Institute , 31% of women in rural areas traveled over 100 miles in order to receive an abortion while another 43% traveled between 50–100 miles. These numbers are only increasing as more clinics are forced to close. Between 2011 and 2016
368-403: The institute was founded in 1968 its parent organization, Planned Parenthood, was its sole source of its funding. Three years after becoming independent in 2007, the organization received less than 1% of its funding from Planned Parenthood in 2010. Now, most of the funding is gained through private foundations based in the United States. Other funding comes from international organizations such as
391-727: The late 1960s, the taboo on abortion was gradually broken in public discourse. More and more experts came to the point of view that abortions would happen anyway, whether or not the act was criminalised, and it was to conduct them safely for those women determined to end their pregnancy. In the early 1970s, the first specialised abortion clinics emerged such as in Arnhem (Mildredhuis, 1971) and Heemstede (Bloemenhove Clinic, 1973). By 1975, abortion clinic network Stimezo (an abbreviation of Sti chting Me disch Verantwoorde Z wangerschaps o nderbreking , "Medically Responsible Pregnancy Termination Foundation", set up in 1969) ran nine clinics throughout
414-679: The number of abortion clinics in Texas dropped from 40 to 19 as a result of the state's House Bill 2, which was struck down by the Supreme Court in June 2016. In 2023, The Satanic Temple launched a clinic named after Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Samuel Alito ’s mother. Abortion clinics have frequently been the site of protests by anti-abortion activists . Protesters often engage in what
437-422: The organization officially split from Planned Parenthood. The Guttmacher Institute continually monitors state and national laws and policies about contraception and abortion. The institute records the restrictions on reproductive health that different states have put in place. The organization also keeps data about how teens are affected by pregnancy and the number of teens who use contraception. Internationally,
460-522: The reason given was a desire not to have a child of a particular gender. In January and February 2012, the Care Quality Commission had made unannounced inspections of the clinic, as a result of which the clinic was warned, and a doctor suspended. The West Midlands Police were also asked to investigate. By May 2012, the name and management of the service had changed to Marie Stopes International Birmingham. This article about
483-445: The societal stigma surrounding abortion and attempts to expose or shame women who are seeking the procedure. Anti-abortion activists have also attempted to access abortion clinic medical records by breaking into dumpsters, proposing state legislation that would require clinics to provide information regarding their patients to the government and hacking online databases containing confidential patient information. In some countries,
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#1732780277904506-624: Was criminalised in the Netherlands in 1911; nonetheless, a demand for terminating pregnancies remained, and an illegal abortion market grew. In 1962, about 25,000 abortions were performed in the entire country, all of them illegal and unsafe. 70 amateur abortionists were sentenced that year. Illegal abortions were mostly performed with very risky and dangerous methods, which led to serious infections and internal bleeding. About 20 to 30 women died of complications each year, while many others were disabled for life and resigned to wheelchairs . In
529-571: Was finally legalised after long-winded heated parliamentary debates, with high pressure from the supporters and opponents of reproductive rights. Between 2011 and 2016, 162 abortion clinics in the United States closed or stopped offering abortions due largely to legislative regulations enacted by Republican state lawmakers. These bills, referred to as TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider) implement medically unnecessary restrictions for clinics that will be difficult or impossible for providers to meet, therefore forcing clinics to close under
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