According to the May 28 campaign: "The systematic denial of women's right to access safe and legal abortion services, and/or the criminalization of abortion, is one of the most severe examples of institutional violence in regards of sexual and reproductive health and rights".

Coalition members include Amnesty International, ARROW, ASTRA Youth, Center for Reproductive Rights, Ipas, IPPF, Pathfinder, Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) and World YWCA which claim, using standard pro-abortion arguments, that governments need to "be held accountable" when pro-life laws block access to abortion:

"Women's right to comprehensive reproductive health services, including abortion, is rooted in international human rights standards, which guarantee the rights to life, health, privacy and non-discrimination. These rights are seriously violated when governments make abortion services inaccessible to women who need them.According to international legislation, governments can be held accountable for highly restrictive abortion laws and for failure to ensure access to abortion when it is legal. When women are forced to resort to unsafe abortions, governments are responsible for the high death rates and the dangerous health consequences." 

The May 28 campaign makes no mention of the negative consequences of abortion on women's physical, emotional and spiritual health. It makes no mention of holding governments accountable for the harmful effects abortion can have on a woman or for the violence and death imposed upon the vulnerable and marginalized unborn child. There is no mention of the life-saving impact of pro-life laws in countries with low maternal mortality such as Chile and Ireland.  

The campaign does acknowledge that "a significant number of countries in the world" restrict access to abortion; it equates carrying an unplanned pregnancy with "cruel and inhumane and degrading treatment, as stated by various Human Rights Bodies". In reality, no U.N. treaty declares a right to abortion but members of treaty monitoring bodies distort the meaning of universally recognized human rights to advance access to abortion.  

This year, the day takes on addition motivation as negotiations continue at the United Nations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will guide development policies, funding and priorities from January 2016 to January 2031. The campaign prepared a model letter for its supporters - Ensuring Women and Girls' Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rightsin the Post-2015 Agenda-that they hope will be sent to government officials as the final negotiations on the SDGs take place during June and July. It includes:            

Examples of "institutional violence" cited in the letter are: "The denial of the right to access and/or the criminalization of safe abortion services;" and "The denial of access to contraceptives and emergency contraception."

The letter ends with a plea for governments to "support over the remaining Post-2015 processes, as well implement at national level, a comprehensive approach to women's health, accounting for the full spectrum of women and girls' sexual and reproductive health issues, needs, and rights."

The "significant number of countries in the world" that restrict abortion, and whose laws are targeted by the campaign, recognize that abortion is a reproductive wrong. They ought to be commended for their policies that seek to protect women and children from the violence of abortion and supported in their actions at the United Nations to maintain their sovereign right to determine national laws on abortion, especially during debate over the Post 2015 development agenda and the SDGs.

Referring to the total global deaths attributed to 'unsafe abortion'- 47,000 women- Ipas explains that the "vast majority of these deaths are in the global south, where the use of cell phones and other mobile devices is growing rapidly, including in rural communities." (PNCI notes that access to any type of health care in the region remains limited creating an especially dangerous situation for women who are enticed to self-abort with abortion inducing drugs that can lead to severe blood loss.)

Ipas emphasized its work using mobile phone technology, called "mHealth", including promoting abortion pills in three countries that restrict abortion explaining:

"As the use of mobile technology to deliver health information and services grows at a lightening pace, Ipas has implemented mobile health (or "mHealth") projects in four countries-South Africa, Bangladesh, Kenya and Nigeria-and is supporting researchers and community-based organizations with the development of new mHealth projects in several others. Many abortion-related mHealth projects focus on improving young women's access to abortion care." 

Abortion 'outside the formal health system' means illegal abortion and 'assess their own eligibility for medical abortion' means that Ipas is seeking to have a woman self-determine the gestational age of her baby and whether or not she can 'safely' use abortion pills.

In discussing the promotion of illegal abortion in Indonesia by a local NGO which is implementing text messaging and a mobile application for instruction on performing illegal abortion, Ipas acknowledged that "Abortion is highly restricted in Indonesia... is legally permitted only to save the life of the woman and in cases of fetal impairment and rape. Spousal authorization is required, and unmarried women often are restricted from accessing abortion services."

The founder of this NGO in Indonesia currently runs a hotline for illegal abortion and stated, "...medical abortion has had a 'revolutionary impact' on women because it gives them the opportunity to have control over the abortion process while in the privacy of their home or whatever setting they choose."

The drug misoprostol has received approval by the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines for inclusion in the Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) for the additional indication of treating post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) on the community level. It is already listed for preventing PPH and along with mifepristone for induced abortion.  

Misoprostol is a powerful drug that can save the lives of mothers but when misused, it can end the lives of their children. It is the drug that is most often recommended for illegal DIY abortion when RU 486 is not available.

Pro-abortion organizations have long sought inclusion of misoprostol alone, for community level use, on the EML in order to increase its availability in countries with pro-life laws which refuse to register the abortion drug mifepristone. Gynuity is the organization which led the effort to secure inclusion on the EML and filed the application with support from numerous NGOs and groups, including the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health.

Gynuity tracks countries' registration of misoprostol alone and

"Because mifepristone is a registered abortion drug, its sale and use are not permitted in most countries with restrictive abortion laws. In contrast, misoprostol is an anti-ulcer medication that is registered under various trade names in more than 85 countries. Research has found that misoprostol used alone is about 85      percent successful in inducing abortion when used as recommended. Although less effective alone than when combined with mifepristone, misoprostol offers a safe and accessible alternative for women who have no other option."

The website of the 20th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines has additional information and links to all the statements and supporting information.

The Irish parliament defeated a bill to remove the country's constitutional protection for the unborn. The legislation, rejected on a vote of 74 to 23, would have repealed the 8^th amendment to the Irish Constitution, the last legal protection for the unborn Irish child. The Pro Life Campaign ran a national campaign ahead of the vote, urging people to contact their MPs in opposition to the bill. The pro-life group emphasized the positive effects the 8^th Amendment has had on Ireland's mothers and children, affording them adequate prenatal medical care before. The vote, though a clear victory, is part of a continued assault aimed at eliminating Ireland's pro-life laws. 

The Scottish parliament has rejected legislation to legalize assisted suicide by a vote of 82 to 36. The bill had many criticisms-from the general purpose of the bill to its ambiguous language. Scottish Health Secretary Shona Robison said the government opposed the bill and told MSPs to vote "according to their conscience". Conservative MSP Dr Nanette Milne, a formeranaesthetist and cancer researcher expressed her opposition to the bill: "Personally, as a former health professional, the idea of actively and deliberately hastening death by assisting someone to die is deeply disturbing for me. And I share the view of many professional colleagues that to legislate for this would risk undermining patient trust in doctors and medical advice." A petition by the Care Not Killing Alliance presented a petition with 15,300 signatories opposing the bill.

The Peruvian Congress rejected a bill to decriminalize abortion, affirming that the law protects the right to life from the moment of conception. The legislation would have created exceptions for abortion in cases of rape. The Congress chose to shelve the bill, a decision Congressman Julio Rossas said was to "safeguard the health of a mother and the greater interests of the unborn child". This past March, Peru was the scene of what was called the largest pro-life event in Latin American history when over half a million people took to the streets of Lima in a joyful march for life.

Switzerland plans to have a national vote on the legalization of preimplantation genetic testing in IVF next month. The current law allows the creation of three embryos through IVF, the amount of embryos implanted right away. If the vote is passed, up to twelve embryos could be created, genetically tested and then frozen. The vote is split across the country. Marco Romano, a parliamentarian for the centre Christian Democrats expressed his opposition after learning more about the process from the doctors performing it and the slippery slope it would create: "In Switzerland, the parliamentary debate very clearly showed the willingness of some people to go even further. In accepting PGD, we open a door and we don't know exactly where it will take us."

The Parliament of Burma (or the Union of Myanmar) has passed a new "population control" bill that has many concerned will be used discriminatorily against a part of the population that is already being marginalized. The bill introduces "birth spacing", requiring an interval of time between the birth of children. However, it fails to prohibit discriminatory or coercive implementation, and Physicians for Human Rights (PHP) lamented the passage of the bill without it. "If this bill is signed and applied selectively in areas where religious or ethnic minorities are already subjected to persistent and pervasive discrimination, we face a heightened risk of grave human rights violations," said PHP's director of programs Widney Brown.  

A segment of the Burmaese population, the Muslim Rohingya population in Rakhine state, has already been subject to restrictions on marriage, birth registration and other human rights violations. Under the new law, authorities will have the power to impose 'population policies' if it is deemed the current birth rates, population rates, and more are negatively affecting the region's development. President Thein Sein is expected to soon sign the legislation into law.

The latest figures out of New Zealand show a declining rate of abortions in the country, down 24% since 2003. An annual report from the Abortion Supervisory Committee for 2013 reported14, 073 abortions in 2013, down from 18,511 in 2003. ProLife NZ welcomed the trend but warned it could be easily changed. "Recent proposals by the Greens to introduce effectively abortion-on-demand would be a backward step along these lines," said Ms. Mary-Anne Evers with ProLife NZ. She noted that Greens proposal would expand the exceptions for abortion to include 'severe fetal abnormality' up to birth.

A recent article in a pro-abortion news source admits the potential dangers of the push for DIY abortions. Abortion groups have increasingly been promoting abortion drugs like misoprostol alone and RU 486 for self-induced abortion, particularly in countries with pro-life laws. However, without proper medical care and support, there arises many opportunities for complications. The author, a lawyer and proponent of abortion, cautions that women could be forced to go the emergency rooms with heavy bleeding and cramping. She admits she is disappointed that many feminist groups are pushing for these drugs without also instituting support groups. She warns of legal implications recalling the success of past 'self-help menstrual extraction groups' as a more effective way to circumvent laws banning abortion.