Abortion Rights (organisation)

The "Abortion Law Reform Association" was founded in the United Kingdom in 1936 by Janet Chance, Alice Jenkins, Joan Malleson[2] and Stella Browne.

Janet Chance created the funding and the marketing whilst Alice Brook Jenkins was the honorary secretary.

These women wanted the privileges that “moneyed classes had enjoyed for years.”[3] The ALRA was very active between 1936 and 1939 sending speakers around the country to talk about Labour and Equal Citizenship and attempted to have letters and articles published in newspapers.

[7] The ALRA's turning point was to gain the support of the Liberal Party MP David Steel, who placed a private members bill through the House of Commons to reform the laws of abortion, choosing this issue over calls to instead amend the law on plumbers or the rights of homosexuals.

[5] Steele put forward a private members bill that was backed by the government and it resulted in the 1967 Abortion Act.

and included equal pay, an end to the glass ceiling, free contraception and access to abortion.