Claire Pierson

Claire is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Feminist Politics at the University of Liverpool, her research focuses on reproductive rights and activism. She has extensive experience of researching abortion rights and access in Northern Ireland and is currently working on abortion care and information access in Malta. She is the co-author of Reimagining Global Abortion Politics published by Policy Press.

Latest Posts, OpinionJune 28, 2022<June 28, 2022

Roe V Wade Overturned: What Abortion Access & Reproductive Rights Look Like Around The World

As we are seeing in the US, anti-abortion movements continue to push back against any gains that are made. Regression on reproductive rights often correlates with wider backlashes on gender rights & the rise of far right and populist political regimes.