Abortion on demand

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The Global Women's Health and Reproductive Rights organisation believes that "Reproductive rights are a series of rights that enable all women to decide whether or not to have children."

In 1920, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union pioneered abortion on demand.
Abortion was regarded as a means of enabling women to participate in the workplace.
In the West, legislators strove to balance traditional ethical restraints with the realities of the Sexual Revolution.
The Abortion Supervisory Committee has admitted that in New Zealand, a situation of "abortion on demand exists" up to 12 weeks.
Abortionists tend to insist that abortion is ethical as the foetus lacks 'personhood.'

The popular understanding of "abortion on demand," is abortion available on request. A woman's desire, or "choice" to be "un-pregnant", is considered her legal right by abortion proponents, with no justification required.

The government, and the medical establishment, regard abortion as a "core health service", and collaborate in ensuring that women have easily available access to abortion facilities.

The Rationale

In 1920, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union pioneered abortion on demand. The only proviso was that abortions be performed in public hospitals. Abortion was regarded as a means of liberating women from domestic slavery, enabling full and equal participation as workers.

The Communists were aided in introducing immediate abortion on demand by their militant atheism. There were no moral or ethical restraints to what they regarded as social progress.

When the abortion rights movement gathered pace in the West during the late 1960s, legislators strove to balance traditional ethical restraints with the realities of the Sexual Revolution. Abortions up to and beyond 24 weeks on mental health grounds were permitted by law, with a tacit understanding that they were freely available on demand.

Scandanavian countries generally permitted abortion on demand in the first trimester (up to 13 weeks), and on mental and physical health grounds beyond.

"Reproductive Rights"
The first Global Women's Health and Reproductive Rights Meeting in Amsterdam in 1986, heralded the international reproductive rights movement with a comprehensive definition:

The Abortion Supervisory Committee has admitted, 98% of the abortions are permitted on the "spurious" grounds of mental health.

Because spiritual and philosophical definitions are non-provable theories and beliefs, defining whether the foetus is, or is not a 'person,' can only be a matter of personal opinion. In consideration of this, opponents to abortion say that laws should be based on the medical and scientific definition as to when human life begins.

Read more about When Life Begins and the issue of Personhood