CHOICE WEEK: Reproductive choice for all
With reproductive choice, we can control our own futures. This Choice Week, join us to #ChooseChoice.
What is Choice Week?
Choice Week runs from Monday 21 September – Monday 28 September and is all about how choice can change the world.
September 26 is World Contraception Day and September 28 is International Safe Abortion Day. It’s a week to take action. It’s a moment to be bold.
World Contraception Day calls for everyone to have access to their choice of contraception. And International Safe Abortion Day campaigns for global abortion rights, so that no abortion is unsafe and everyone has the right to this essential healthcare.
Together, these days form Choice Week, reminding us of the power of reproductive choice, and we invite pro-choice people everywhere to #ChooseChoice on social media and beyond.
This year, MSI Reproductive Choices has a simple message: Reproductive choice is power. Yet millions of women worldwide can’t make this choice. It’s time to change that.
Read more below, and take our three actions to give every woman reproductive freedom:
1. LEARN more about choice
Scroll on to learn about global reproductive choice.
2. SHARE on social media
Join the conversation on social media and tell the world why you #ChooseChoice. A social media toolkit is coming soon – watch this space.
3. DONATE for choice
Support someone to access life-changing contraception or abortion care with a donation today.
What is reproductive choice?
Reproductive choice means the power to decide if or when to become pregnant. This means having access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including contraception and abortion care.
A world of opportunities opens when women and girls have choice. Girls can finish school, young women can pursue a career, and mothers can have a break between pregnancies for their health and to support their families.
When pregnancy is a choice, a woman can have agency over her life, her health and her future. It doesn’t just change one life, it changes the world.
Fight for choice
It’s been a long fight for the right to choose.
To have a say over our bodies, our families, our futures.
That right is under threat.
Join us to defend our rights and choices.
Why we need to #ChooseChoice for reproductive rights
The last few years have seen rising attacks on our reproductive freedom.
A second Trump administration has been curtailing reproductive healthcare access, with far-reaching consequences for women and girls around the world.
Meanwhile, an anti-choice and anti-rights movement is growing in the UK and globally, threatening to roll back progress.
While we celebrate Choice Week, anti-choice groups are holding 40 days for life – six weeks of round-the-clock protests outside abortion clinics. They’re harassing people seeking and providing abortion care.
The threat to reproductive rights is happening right now around the world. Speaking out in support of choice is an act of resistance. Choice is power, and we won’t rest until everyone has it.
Here’s how to #ChooseChoice with us
Learn more about the power of choice
Gender equality isn’t possible without reproductive choice. Learn why reproductive choice is the gateway to a gender equal world.
Share why you #ChooseChoice
Conversations online can normalise reproductive healthcare, inform and inspire people 💙 Take a minute to post about why you choose choice.
Donate to support access to reproductive healthcare
There’s no better way to #ChooseChoice than to back abortion and contraception access with a donation. You can also give a monthly contribution. Give someone choice today.