Ann Furedi

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Ann Furedi in 1999

Ann Furedi (born 31 October 1960, Birmingham, England) is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmental LM network in that she was previously a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and (mostly) using the pseudonyms Ann Bradley or Ann Burton/Anne Burton wrote for Confrontation and regularly for Living Marxism. Since it was closed in 2000 she has contributed to Spiked and the Institute of Ideas.

Ann Furedi is the Chief Executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which calls itself "the UK's leading independent provider of abortion care". She is married to Frank Furedi.

According to Ann Furedi in an edit to the Wikipedia page on her:

Furedi has worked in reproductive health care for more than 20 years, mainly in policy and communications. She ran the press office of the UK Family Planning Association before leading Birth Control Trust, a charity that advocated the need for research and development in methods of contraception and abortion. Before joining bpas, as its chief executive in June 2003, Furedi was Director of Policy and Communications for the UK regulator of infertility treatment and embryo research, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA. She is regarded as a leading a leading pro-choice advocate and spokesperson often appearing in the media representing this perspective.

Furedi also added a passage confirming her membership of the RCP:

Prior to her career in reproductive health, Furedi was a journalist, specialising in healthcare features for women's magaizines including Cosmopolitan, Company, sometimes writing under her 'maiden name', Bradley. In 1982, she married Frank Furedi, the founder and then leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), Frank Furedi. At that time Ann was also a member of the now defunct RCP, a former contributor to the now defunct Living Marxism magazine, and a contributor to its successor, LM Magazine. She has also contributed to Spiked Online, an online magazine, that identifies itself as libertarian humanist.

Publications

2001

• Ann Furedi, 'Catching chlamydia', Spiked, 13 February 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Defending abortion - in law and in practice', Spiked, 8 March 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Abortion is a fact of life', Spiked, 8 March 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'The case for 'late' abortion', Spiked, 8 March 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Abortion for fetal abnormality', Spiked, 8 March 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Is abortion a health risk?', Spiked, 8 March 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Infectious laws', Spiked, 8 March 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Perverse perceptions', Spiked, 15 March 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Comic Relief: a bad taste lingers', Spiked, 5 April 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Over-age sex', Spiked, 17 April 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Give them enough rope', Spiked, 24 May 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'spiked-proposals: Teenage sex', Spiked, 7 June 2001.
• Ann Furedi, 'Disability cleansing' - or a reasonable choice?', Spiked, 29 August 2001.

2003

• Ann Furedi, 'Whose choice?', Spiked, 1 December 2003.

2004

• Ann Furedi, 'Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health', Spiked, 12 February 2004.
• Ann Furedi, 'Life is not a film', Spiked, 21 April 2004.

2005

• Ann Furedi, 'When Vera Drakes were everywhere', Spiked, 14 January 2005.
• Ann Furedi, 'Faith in the abortion debate', Spiked, 31 March 2005.

2006

• Ann Furedi, 'Why abortion clinics won’t be building barricades', Spiked, 11 May 2006.
• Ann Furedi, 'What’s wrong with ‘do-it-yourself’ abortions?', Spiked, 5 June 2006.
• Ann Furedi, 'Abortion: some messages can’t be massaged', Spiked, 20 November 2006.

2007

• Ann Furedi, 'Let us decriminalise abortion altogether', Spiked, 25 June 2007.
• Ann Furedi, 'The first casualty of the abortion wars: truth', Spiked, 21 September 2007.

2008

• Ann Furedi, 'Why rising abortion rates are not a problem', Spiked, 31 March 2008.
• Ann Furedi, 'Abortion in Britain: the debate ain’t over yet', Spiked, 22 May 2008.
• Ann Furedi, 'A shocking betrayal of women’s rights', Spiked, 23 October 2008.

2009

• Ann Furedi, Let’s stand up to ‘supernanny’, Spiked, 25 September 2009.

2010

• Ann Furedi, 'Providing myths and fables to the Godless', Spiked, 28 May 2010.
• Ann Furedi, 'Gospels for the Godless', Spiked, 4 June 2010.
• Ann Furedi, 'A moral defence of late abortion', Spiked, 20 December 2010.

2011

• Ann Furedi, 'Let’s make it easier to take the abortion pill', Spiked, 13 January 2011.
• Ann Furedi, 'Our 10-year struggle to improve abortion care', Spiked, 17 February 2011.
• Ann Furedi, 'Late abortion: the new clash in the Choice Wars', Spiked, 3 March 2011.
• Ann Furedi, 'A funny thing happened on the way to the forum', Spiked, 1 June 2011.
• Ann Furedi, 'Abortion: how late is ‘too late’?, Spiked, 28 November 2011.

2012

• Ann Furedi, 'Right to protest, or just plain wrong?', Spiked, 20 September 2012.
• Ann Furedi, ‘You can’t be a little bit pro-choice’, Spiked, 18 October 2012.

2013

• Ann Furedi, 'Why shouldn’t human beings play God?', Spiked, 11 April 2013.
• Ann Furedi, 'Remaking the case for a woman’s right to choose', Spiked, 24 April 2003.
• Ann Furedi, 'Putting choice back into the pro-choice movement', Spiked, 17 June 2013.
• Ann Furedi, 'You can’t be pro-choice only when you like the choice', Spiked, 16 September 2013.

2014

• Ann Furedi, 'The myth of sex‑selective abortions', Spiked, 27 January 2014.
• Ann Furedi, 'The pro-choice lobby should celebrate, not censor debate', Spiked, 14 May 2014.
• Ann Furedi, 'A manifesto for the right to abortion', Spiked, 19 December 2014.
• Ann Furedi, 'Why anti-abortion protesters must Back Off', Spiked, 19 December 2014.

2015

• Ann Furedi, 'In the struggle over abortion access, BPAS isn’t backing off', Spiked, 29 January 2015.
• Ann Furedi, 'Trust women: our Charter for Choice', Spiked, 7 July 2015.
• Ann Furedi, 'Rape culture and the crisis of intimacy', Spiked, 28 August 2015.
• Ann Furedi, 'Why the fight for women’s choice must go on', Spiked, 19 October 2015.
• Ann Furedi, 'The best abortion law is no abortion law at all', Spiked, 2 December 2015.

2016

• Ann Furedi, 'Zika: why all women must have abortion rights', Spiked, 8 February 2016.

Affiliations

Birth Control Trust director, circa 1996