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  • 1 week ago | novaramedia.com | Maya Oppenheim

    Paywalls? Never. We think quality reporting should be free for everyone – and our supporters make that possible. Chip in today and help build people-powered media that everyone can access. Labour MPs are attempting to launch the most “draconian” clampdown on sex work devised in Britain in decades, campaigners have warned. Sex workers told Novara Media that the measures proposed by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi could unjustly criminalise their friends and family and put prostitutes’ safety at risk.

  • 1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Maya Oppenheim

    commentAs MPs are set to vote on an amendment to criminal law that would stop people being prosecuted for seeking abortions, Maya Oppenheim argues it’s a vital measure to improve women’s livesWhen I scrambled out of my bathroom on all fours after an abortion in January 2022, I was paralysed by the pain. Fast forward to five months later and again I found myself frozen with pain in the same flat in south London.

  • 3 weeks ago | msn.com | Maya Oppenheim

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Maya Oppenheim

    Read NextRead MoreAs a child, I’d sit cross-legged on a beach in Andalucia, southern Spain, hoping to catch a glimpse of Morocco across the twinkling Mediterranean Sea. But no matter how much I squinted, it never materialised on the horizon. This didn’t stop me daydreaming, though. I wondered what would be waiting for me if I sneaked on board one of the ferries I would watch setting sail from the Spanish city of Almeria to Nador, in northeast Morocco.

  • 1 month ago | cosmopolitan.com | Maya Oppenheim

    Sometimes a change in your life can be so seamless that it takes you a while to fully register that it has happened. Like when the crushing unhappiness you felt from a break-up very slowly lifts and, one day, you notice you’re smiling again. This was how I felt after going back on the contraceptive pill. I began taking desogestrel – the generic name for a progestogen-only pill (the mini pill) in February 2022.

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18 Jun 25

RT @novaramedia: Labour MPs are plotting a crackdown that could unjustly criminalise sex workers’ friends and family and put prostitutes’ s…

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17 Jun 25

RT @joejsmiddleton: Why it’s never been more important to decriminalise abortion (by @MayaOppenheim ) https://t.co/pvhd3fENxj

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