Abortion news
- 2025-Aug-19 MSN: JD Vance has "learned lesson" on speaking for former President [Donald] Trump (USA)
- 2025-Aug-19 Rewire News Group: These 3 OB-GYNs Won't Leave Texas (USA) -- Even as Abortion Bans Threaten Their Work: Our "communities still deserve strong OB-GYNs," one doctor said
- 2025-Aug-19 PRB: State Lawmakers (USA) Turn to Research Community in Efforts to Protect Abortion Access: "The challenges we face require all of us at the table working together to chart a more informed and inclusive path forward."
- 2025-Aug-19 Arkansas Times: Arkansas Abortion Support Network (USA) featured in Mother Jones
- 2025-Aug-19 The Hill: Hillary Clinton: Supreme Court "will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion" (USA)
- 2025-Aug-19 NYC Health+Hospitals: NYC Health + Hospitals Receives $10.7 Million to Support Abortion Access Over Three Years: Funds support hiring abortion care providers, updated equipment, access to abortion doulas, and financial support for patients
- 2025-Aug-19 Ms. Magazine: In the Fall Issue of Ms. Magazine: The Dangerous Work of Advocating for Abortion Rights
- 2025-Aug-19 Feminist Majority Foundation: New Study Shows Abortion Bans Are Driving Doctors Out (USA)
- 2025-Aug-19 OSV News: 6 pro-life activists face state charges for abortion clinic "rescue" in Pennsylvania (USA)
- 2025-Aug-19 UIC Today: UIC study shows how abortion provider laws hinder access to women's health care
- 2025-Aug-19 SILive: Hillary Clinton warns that Supreme Court will overturn this hard-won American right next
- 2025-Aug-19 The Dallas Morning News: Texas' (USA) abortion ban has created a standard of fear, jeopardizing care for pregnant Texans
- 2025-Aug-19 IndyStar: Indiana Fever players to headline Carmel abortion rights fundraiser; what to know (USA)
- 2025-Aug-19 Virginia Mercury: Abortion pill campaign targets rural West Virginia, Kentucky (USA) gas stations
- 2025-Aug-19 Axios: Abortion pill fight reaches pharmacy board rooms (USA)
- 2025-Aug-19 Aleteia: Dominican Republic defends unborn in new penal code
- 2025-Aug-19 Bloomberg Law: Abortion Rule's Demise Spells Trouble for HHS Privacy Role (USA)
- 2025-Aug-19 KQED: California (USA) at the Center of New Legal Battles Over Abortion
- 2025-Aug-19 Maktoob Media: Study reveals inconsistencies in Indian court rulings on abortion between 2019 and 2024
- 2025-Aug-19 South China Morning Post: Chinese husband discovers during wife's abortion that unborn child is his neighbour's: Drunken husband of cheating wife flies into a rage about "secret affair," [and] attacks man who had sex with his partner with knife
- 2025-Aug-18 Feminist Majority Foundation: Massachusetts (USA) Expands Protections for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Care
- 2025-Aug-18 Time Magazine: Here's What Real Pro-Family Policy Looks Like
- 2025-Aug-18 Virginia Mercury: Virginia (USA) abortion funds see sharp uptick in patients both in and out of state
- 2025-Aug-18 Nature Briefing: Factors influencing referral among women attending post abortion care at tertiary hospitals in Northern Uganda
- 2025-Aug-18 ABC: Appeals court overturns order that stripped some protections from pregnant Texas (USA) state workers: A federal appeals court has upheld a law strengthening the rights of pregnant workers, vacating a judge's earlier order that had stripped those protections from Texas state employees
- 2025-Aug-16 Hyderabad News: South sees disturbing spike: Telangana (India) records over 900% rise in abortions in 5 years; highest among all states
- 2025-Aug-16 The Hill: Senate Democrat rips Costco for "refusing to sell" abortion pills (USA)
- 2025-Aug-15 Feminist Majority Foundation: Four Years After the Fall, Afghan Women Are Still Fighting for Their Future (Afghanistan)
- 2025-Aug-15 Yahoo!: Abortion Pills That Give You Superpowers? Women's Healthcare Is Now the Stuff of Fantasy Films
- 2025-Aug-15 Nova Scotia Health: Remembering Dr. Jacques Desrosiers: The steady force behind reproductive rights in Nova Scotia, Canada
- 2025-Aug-15 Scimex: Anti-abortion stigma could be holding breast cancer research back
- 2025-Aug-15 The Guardian: Abortion drug could help reduce risk of breast cancer, group of medics says
- 2025-Aug-15 BBC: Woman arrested at anti-abortion protest faces no further action
- 2025-Aug-14 Western Standard: Poll shows Poilievre's abortion stance at odds with Battle River–Crowfoot voters (Alberta, Canada)
- 2025-Aug-14 Delta Optimist: Maine (USA) clinics fight to restore Medicaid funds after Trump's cuts to abortion providers
- 2025-Aug-14 Advocate: Texas [USA] woman charged with murder for abortion accuses police of "maliciously abusing their power": Texas officials are trying to get a lawsuit dismissed under qualified immunity after wrongly charging a woman with murder for having an abortion
- 2025-Aug-14 SCALAWAG: South Carolina [USA] providers push back against faith-based assaults on abortion care
- 2025-Aug-14 Tuscon Sentinel: Tucson congressional [Democrat] candidate [JoAnna] Mendoza knocks proposed VA abortion ban
- 2025-Aug-14 KUOW: Religious groups pressure retail pharmacies, including Costco, not to carry abortion drug
- 2025-Aug-14 CounterPunch: Reproductive Freedom and Bodily Autonomy for All
- 2025-Aug-14 World News Group: Ruling: Nuns' group must have abortion coverage
- 2025-Aug-14 The Argonaut: OPINION: Idaho is one state of many experiencing the negative impacts of overturning Roe v. Wade: A reflection on the harm done since the criminalization of abortion in many states
- 2025-Aug-13 Ms. Magazine: A [Donald] Trump Cabinet Member Endorsed a Pastor Who Wants the 19th Amendment Repealed, and the Danger Is Growing (USA)
- 2025-Aug-13 Feminist Majority Foundation: Abortion Rights for Veterans Under Fire
- 2025-Aug-13 Popular Information: Your favorite brands are funding anti-abortion legal campaigns: Big-name companies are donating to a powerful political group using the legal system to expand abortion restrictions nationwide
- 2025-Aug-13 The Intercept: Veterans Are "Guinea Pigs" in Trump's First National Abortion Ban Experiment: They're testing what they want to do with the rest of the country on us,” one veteran told The Intercept
- 2025-Aug-12 Missouri Independent: Missouri (USA) AG erred in asking Supreme Court to overturn order legalizing abortion
- 2025-Aug-12 ACLU: New Filing Reveals Gross Abuse of Power by Texas (USA) Officials who Engaged in Wrongful Prosecution of Abortion
- 2025-Aug-12 Mother Jones: Report: Half of [Donald] Trump's Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records (Trump is quietly packing the federal courts with abortion opponents)
- 2025-Aug-11 Bloomberg: Telehealth Abortions Centered in Poor States With Few Options
- 2025-Aug-11 The Guardian: Medication abortions drove up number of US procedures after Roe's repeal, study shows
- 2025-Aug-11 Stat: As use of telehealth for medication abortion grows, new data offer window into patient population: Prescriptions by a major provider suggest telehealth has "changed the abortion care landscape"
- 2025-Aug-10 Global News: How [Donald] Trump's judicial picks could reshape abortion rights for decades
- 2025-Jul-30 McGill University: Pearl Eliadis on the Legal Justification for Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones | CBC
- 2025-Jul-28 SCALAWAG: Georgia [USA] tried to ban abortions; Telehealth offers a new alternative
- 2025-Jul-24 PBS: Most U.S. adults think abortion should be legal 3 years after Roe was overturned, poll shows
- 2025-Jul-17 The Moscow Times: "Give Me a Choice": Activists Urge Russian Doctors to Defend Women's Right to Abortion
- 2025-Jul-13 AOL: Journalist Ana Kasparian on her viral pro-choice video and why faith and politics should remain separate
- 2025-Jul-08 Catholic Register: U.S. abortion cuts give hope to Canadian pro-lifers
- 2025-Jul-07 The New York Times: Tracking Abortion Laws Across the Country (USA): Where abortion bans are in effect
- 2025-Jul-02 NBC: Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down state's 1849 near-total abortion ban; Abortion providers in the state resumed the procedure in 2023 after a judge ruled that a more recent law superseded the 176-year-old ban
- 2025-Jun-27 University of Victoria: Grant for culturally safe abortion support hotline
- 2025-Jun-16 BBC: MPs to vote on decriminalising abortion - how the law could change (United Kingdom)
- 2025-Jun-16 Globe and Mail: Border bill powers would allow warrantless police requests to doctors, abortion clinics, hotels
- 2025-Jun-12 Pew Research: Public Opinion on Abortion (1995-2024 Fact Sheet)
- 2025-Jun-04 Politico: Abortion: Europe's not as liberal as you think: While the global focus is on America's reversal of long-standing abortion rights, a surprising number of European women still have to travel to terminate pregnancies
- 2025-May-08 SOGC: Protecting the Right to Choose: SOGC Statement for Women's Health Week
- 2025-Apr-24 Catholic Register: [Prime Minister Mark] Carney puts faith in Canada's abortion extremism
- 2025-Apr-17 Greenpeace: Abortion: Pierre Poilievre and the [Canadian] Conservative Party Don't Have a Good Track Record
- 2025-Apr-14 UBC: Why abortion rates are rising abroad—but not in Canada: Dr. Laura Schummers' latest research shows Canada's abortion rate remaining relatively stable, in contrast to other countries where it has risen dramatically
- 2025-Apr-10 newsGP: Health groups call on candidates to reveal abortion support: The RACGP has joined forces with 39 high-profile health groups, calling on political parties to support improving abortion access for all (Australia)
- 2025-Apr-09 Amnesty International: Australia must learn from the United States rollback on abortion rights
- 2025-Mar-29 CBC: Vancouver abortion clinic to close after 35 years, raising concerns over access: Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic cites funding uncertainty, lease issues and system changes as reasons for decision
- 2025-Mar-13 The Jamestown Foundation: Abortion Tourism on the Rise in Russia as Regions Adopt Different Policies (publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor, volume 22 issue 34)
- 2025-Mar-07 THe Guardian: "There's no other solution": Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws (Poland)
- 2025-Mar-03 CBC: Yukon woman shines light on the cracks in abortion access in the territory: Prohibitive costs, limited services, and stigma make obtaining abortion care challenging, say some physicians
- 2025-Feb-23 The Lancet: Abortion care in Alberta, Canada, from 2012 to 2023: a population-based, cross-sectional analysis of use and geographical access
- 2025-Feb-18 OkayAfrica: Sierra Leone's Abortion Access Bill Could Make History, but it Faces Pushback: From religious groups to a lack of adequate sensitization, the Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Healthcare bill faces a range of challenges that could further endanger the people who need it the most
- 2025-Jan-23 Christian Network Europe: Banning abortion seems easy, but it is difficult for Russia
- 2025-Jan-21 SWI: Abortion in Europe: a right for some, a fight for millions of others
- 2025-Jan-14 ARCC: New Westminster Passes Bylaw to Control Harmful Graphic Flyers
- 2025-Jan-13 CCLA: Canadian Civil LIberties Association Announces Victory and Discontinues Abortion Access Challenge in New Brunswick
News archive 2024
- 2024-Dec-04 Think Global Health: Argentina's Abortion Law Three Years Later: The country's abortion law has reduced fertility rates and preventable deaths among girls ages 10 to 14
- 2024-Nov-30 RNZ: Remembering the lives lost to illegal abortion in NZ (New Zealand)
- 2024-Oct-29 Canadian Department of Finance: Government of Canada protecting reproductive freedom and covering essential health care costs
- 2024-Oct-17 The Moscow Times: Russian Orthodox Church to Promote "Miracle of Birth" in Anti-Abortion Letters to Pregnant Women
- 2024-Sep-28 Canadian Government: Statement by the Prime Minister on International Safe Abortion Day ("Abortion is health care. Family planning is health care. It's that simple." -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau)
- 2024-Sep-09 New Lines Magazine: India's Abortion Laws Offer Pregnant Women an Illusion of Choice: Complicated, overlapping and contradictory legislation places decisions in the hands of the medical and judicial establishments
- 2024-Jul-27 le News: Swiss court decides fathers have no say in abortion (Switzerland)
- 2024-Mar-19 Guttmacher: Medication Abortion Accounted for 63% of All US Abortions in 2023—An Increase from 53% in 2020
News archive 2023
- 2023-Dec-06 ACSHR: Decriminalizing Abortion: A Journey Towards Access and Equity
- 2023-Sep-09 AWAC Uganda: AWAC Sex Worker Stories on Abortion
- 2023-May-09 Health Canada: Government of Canada Strengthens Access to Abortion Services
News archive 2022
- 2022-Nov-10 Brookings: It wasn't just "the economy stupid" -- it was abortion (USA)
- 2022-May-18 PBS: What Ireland's history with abortion might teach us about a post-Roe America
News archive 2020
- 2020-Jul-23 Guttmacher: New Estimates Show Worldwide Decrease in Unintended Pregnancies: Abortion Rates Fall in Regions Where It Is Broadly Legal
- 2020-Mar-18 BBC: New Zealand passes law decriminalising abortion
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