Mara Clarke

Abortion Activist | Co-Founder, S.A.F.E.

Mara Clarke (she/her) is an abortion activist with more than 20 years experience. She is on a mission to help people failed by governments and healthcare systems to have abortions.

Mara has been an abortion activist since 2002. She founded the first abortion fund in Europe, Abortion Support Network, growing it from a grassroots group to a staffed charity. She is also one of the co-founders of the Abortion Without Borders initiative, which has helped more than 200,000 people in Poland have abortions since Dec 2019.

She is currently co-leading Supporting Abortions for Everyone – SAFE, a Dutch organization providing the funding, infrastructure and knowledge needed to support the sustainable building and scaling of the emergent European abortion funds movement.

Mara is based between London and Amsterdam.

Key Info

  • Experience

    • Co-Founder - Supporting Abortions for Everyone - SAFE

    • Co-Founder - Abortion Without Borders / Aborcja Bez Granic

    • Founder / Director - Abortion Support Network

    Committees 

    • Abortion Talk UK Trustee

    • Diversity Trust UK Trustee

    Fellowships

    • Women Leaders of the World 2022-2023 Fellow

    • IG Advisors Fix The Flow 2023 fundraising fellow

    Training

    • VQR Level 5 Certificate in the Management of Volunteers 

    • VQR Level 3 Certificate in Moving up in Management

    • Abortion funding

    • Creative problem solving

    • Volunteer management,

    • First, second and third trimester abortions

    • Burnout prevention

    • Community care

    • Movement building

    • France24 | Rise in UK abortion prosecutions: Why the uptick in England and Wales?

    • France24 | Abortion pills at heart of reproductive rights challenges in Poland, US

    • LBC | I've helped people get abortions for 20 years: Safe access zones are not enough and miss the point

    • Big Issue | Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist

    • Open Democracy | Abortion Without Borders: a bold, feminist reply to Poland’s draconian laws

Contact Mara