by Charlie Waring | Published 23rd November 2025

The My Body My Rights campaign advocates for bodily autonomy, combatting the rise of far right and anti-human rights movements in the UK. No politician, system, or society should have the power to control our bodies. We are fighting for a future where all people can easily access reproductive healthcare and make informed choices about their own bodies.

The context

Alarmingly, reproductive rights are being rolled back across the globe. For instance, in 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling, which protected the right to abortion across the US. Since this ruling, 19 states have passed laws banning or limiting access to abortions, increasing infant mortality rates, and endangering women and pregnant people’s lives.

This erosion of reproductive rights is also apparent in Europe. For example, 7 European countries have introduced regressive legal or policy barriers to abortion in the last decade, including Italy and Poland. 

Here in the UK, there has been a rapid increase in funding of so-called “crisis pregnancy centres” – a 46% increase from 2019-2023. These unregulated centres claim to give out impartial advice to pregnant people, but actively discourage abortion by spreading “misinformation and stigma”. Women are “misled” and “manipulated” about abortion at these crisis pregnancy centres, according to a BBC Panorama investigation. For example, many crisis pregnancy centres give out false information to discourage women from seeking abortions, such as linking abortion to infertility, breast cancer, or claim that women suffer from PTSD-like “post abortion syndrome” (which is not recognised by the NHS). Healthcare is a human right and pregnant people deserve access to factual, unbiased medical advice to help them make the most informed choice for their life and their body. This is why the My Body My Rights campaign aims to close all crisis pregnancy centres in the UK. 

The culprits

The overturning of Roe vs Wade. Increased funding for crisis pregnancy centres. Lobbying against buffer zones around abortion clinics that protect patients from harassment. Coalitions built with Reform UK. What do all these things have in common? The answer: the Alliance Defending Freedom (or ADF). They are an anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion, Christian group from the US, which has spent £3.9 million in the UK alone between 2019 and 2023. It is one of the 65 active anti-rights groups working in the UK to curtail our freedoms, limit our access to healthcare and erode our human rights. 

Many of these groups fund crisis pregnancy centres in the UK. This shows how crisis pregnancy centres are a physical manifestation of anti-rights ideology, and that they are literally gaining territory by establishing these centres across the country. In the US, crisis pregnancy centres are successfully weaponised by anti-abortion groups to stop women and pregnant people from accessing abortions; in fact, they outnumber abortion providers 3:1. We cannot let them use the same playbook of regression here.

What are the objectives of the My Body My Rights campaign?

The My Body My Rights campaign aims to close all crisis pregnancy centres in the UK. The closure of these centres will halt the spread of misinformation about reproductive healthcare and allow pregnant people to make fully informed choices about their bodies. 

How will we achieve this?

The My Body My Rights campaign will shut down crisis pregnancy centres by:

• Damaging their reputation – through social media campaigns, press releases, stunts and demonstrations, we will expose the misinformation that crisis pregnancy centres perpetuate and discourage people from turning to them for advice. If nobody trusts them, this renders these centres useless.

• Cutting off funding – we have seen that much of the money sustaining the crisis pregnancy centres (and the larger anti-rights movement) originates from ultra-conservative Christian groups in America. If we can stop this funding from entering the UK, crisis pregnancy centres will be forced to close. 

• Changing the law – through policy and advocacy work, we can outlaw crisis pregnancy centres in the UK and enshrine the protection of bodily autonomy in law.  

How can you get involved?

• Follow the Feminist Network on Instagram @amnestyfeminist
• Sign up to our discord server (link in our instagram bio!)
• Join the monthly My Body My Rights Activist Assemblies online
• Join the mailing list
• Spread the word – tell a friend, share our posts, have a conversation with someone about crisis pregnancy centres

Editor: Emma Burgess