Marie Stopes International is a major promoter and provider of abortion around the world. It is registered as a charity in the UK. In England, MSI provides abortions at a number of private clinics. MSI in the UK also has an active campaigning role and lobbies for, among other things, easier access to the abortifacient morning-after pill. MSI is a member of Voice for Choice, a coalition of pro-abortion groups which campaigns for a liberalisation of the UK’s abortion law so that abortion would be made available on request in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, abortion with only one doctor’s approval up to the 24th week of pregnancy, placing a duty on doctors to declare any conscientious objection to abortion and extending an amended Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
MSI also lobbies on a pro-abortion platform in the institutions of the European Union, and has an office in Brussels. It provides the secretariat for the European parliament’s Working Group on Population, Sustainable Development and Reproductive Health. MSI is active in many countries including China and Vietnam, both of which have coercive population control policies.