# data[].attributes.headline
'Contraception, abortion and the Catholic Church' Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna)

# data[].attributes.subject
'Contraception, abortion and the Catholic Church' Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna)

# data[].attributes.body
“When the motives (for choosing the time) are ... indecision because of the sacrifices required in order to raise children, or the tendency towards freedom and the opportunities of pleasure which a childless marriage offers, or the desire to keep the economy of the family as high as possible, then such married couples sin because of their wrong basic concept and because of the disregard of the sense of marriage. In order to justify the time method there must be very serious reasons” (in: “The Fertile and Infertile Days of the Woman and their Proper Calculation”; Hermann Knaus, Maudrich, 1953)

When in 1999 the UNO sent 60 000 ‘post-rape-parcels’ including ‘the pill after’ to refugee camps in Albania and Macedonia, the Vatican stated: “Usage of ‘the pill after’ is a murderous crime. It is not permissible for women in Kosovo, who have been raped, to use ‘the pill after’.” Austrian Bishop Kurt Krenn adds vigorously: “The absolute right of life for the child is of primary importance, no matter how this life has been produced.“ (quoted from the Austrian daily ‘Der Standard’, April 23, 1999)

# data[].attributes.body
Discarded Electrical Wires Lace Dress
'Romanian camouflage'

# data[].attributes.headline
'Abortion in illegality' Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna)

# data[].attributes.subject
'Abortion in illegality' Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna)

# data[].attributes.body
'Still women have to take drastic and dangerous measures to stop unwanted pregnancies in countries where abortion is prohibited. In most European countries abortion was illegal up to the last few decades; in some, e.g. Poland, abortion is still illegal.

The most frightening object we have collected so far is a splint of wood, 3,5 inches long and 0,1 inch wide. Using this tool a 20 years old woman in Uganda tried to initiate a miscarriage. She was admitted to a hospital having a progressed purulent inflammation of her uterus – but fortunately still alive. Many others do not reach a hospital in time. Abortion is legally prohibited in Uganda and many other countries and a lot of women do not have access to safe contraception methods.

Have a look at our own past:

Doris Lessing ”In pursuit of the English”, London, 1960:

„Next day Mr Skeffington went on a business trip and we never saw him again. One morning I heard a crash outside my door. Mrs Skeffington had thrown herself down one flight of stairs, was on the point of flinging herself down a second. ‘Leave me alone,’ she muttered, and before I could stop her, she launched herself into space again. On the landing below she picked herself up, slowly, slowly, gasping and pale. ‘That ought to shift it,’ she said, with an attempt at a smile, and dragged herself, breathing heavily, up the stairs to Rosemary.“
'

# data[].attributes.headline
'European countries have abortion bans too' Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna)

# data[].attributes.subject
'European countries have abortion bans too' Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna)

# data[].attributes.body
'Even in 2012, Ireland, Poland, Malta and Monaco are not prepared to let women decide for themselves about their fertility: despite being members of the European Union, these countries force abortion underground, with the result that it is either very expensive or is performed under medically primitive – and therefore dangerous – conditions.

“Abortion tourism“ to safe countries is correspondingly high. The phenomenon is familiar from Austrian history: until abortion was legalised in 1975, Austrian women used to travel to Hungary, the former Czechoslovakia or England.

Abortion was legalised in Portugal in 2007, following a referendum.

Worldwide, approximately 25% of people live in countries with strict abortion laws, primarily in Latin America, Africa and Asia. In some countries, such as Chile, women are even sent to prison for having an illegal abortion.'

# data[].attributes.body
christophe gilbert

# data[].attributes.body
fake necessity of reproduction

# data[].attributes.body
forced motherhood,

# data[].attributes.body
A dress:
wire (out of hangers) - to emphasise the symbolic meaning of illegal, underground abortion

thin long fabric (joined with the wires) - absorbing the red liquid, which can symbolise the blood symbolising the drastic methods, pain and suffering of woman who have no access to legal, safe abortion

Space - filled out with coloured red water