Abortion news
- 2025-Sep-28 WHO: International Safe Abortion Day 2025 (September 28)
- 2025-Sep-27 BBC: Anti-abortion campaigner arrested for second time (Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland)
- 2025-Sep-27 Muddy River News: Letter to the Editor: I respect Senator Durbin's statement that he is personally opposed to abortion; That statement does not make him a hypocrite
- 2025-Sep-27 NPR: Latest language for Missouri ballot measure fails to mention amendment would ban abortion (Missouri, USA)
- 2025-Sep-26 Center for Reproductive Rights: Five Wins to Celebrate this International Safe Abortion Day
- 2025-Sep-26 EFF: The Abortion Hotline Meta Wants to Go Dark
- 2025-Sep-26 Politico: California doctors can now prescribe abortion anonymously (USA)
- 2025-Sep-26 CISION: On International Safe Abortion Day, SOGC Urges Protection of Reproductive Rights in Canada
- 2025-Sep-26 Human Rights Watch: Reproductive Rights, Abortion Access Under Threat in Argentina: Rollback of Abortion and Reproductive Health Programs Undermines Womens' and Girls' Rights (Argentina)
- 2025-Sep-26 The Austin Chronicle: Providers Are Still Mailing Abortion Pills to Texans: Tensions between Texas and states with laws protecting abortion providers ramps up
- 2025-Sep-25 EFF: Meta (Facebook) is Removing Abortion Advocates' Accounts Without Warning
- 2025-Sep-25 Reproductive Freedom for All: Over 70 Reproductive Health and Justice Organizations Urge Congressional Leaders to Reject Extremist Abortion Restrictions in ACA Negotiations (USA)
- 2025-Sep-25 The Post and Courier: Reject [anti-]abortion bill, First Amendment protections | Letters (USA)
- 2025-Sep-25 News Channel Nebraska: Medication abortion pill is safer than penicillin, Viagra and procedural abortion, CNN analysis shows (USA)
- 2025-Sep-25 Devdiscourse: Artificial Wombs: The Next Frontier in Reproductive Technology
- 2025-Sep-25 Deadline: Argentina Submits Abortion Drama "Belén" For Best International Feature Film Race (Argentina)
- 2025-Sep-25 Monitor: Why more married women are getting abortions
- 2025-Sep-25 Civic Media: Abortion Ban Mockery (Hour 1 audio); Mornings with Pat Kreitlow (USA)
- 2025-Sep-25 Battleground Wisconsin: [Tom] Tiffany declines to say if he still backs 6-week abortion ban (Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA)
- 2025-Sep-25 Axios: RFK Jr. says FDA will "study" new safety limits on abortion pill (USA)
- 2025-Sep-25 Cleveland.com: Ohio GOP pushes 24-hour abortion waiting period despite reproductive rights amendment (Columbus, Ohio)
- 2025-Sep-25 Michigan Advance: Anti-abortion groups to spend $4.5 million to secure Michigan's U.S. Senate seat for Republicans (USA)
- 2025-Sep-25 The College Fix: "Dystopian society": Academics develop tool to help IVF parents decide which embryos to destroy
- 2025-Sep-25 The Catholic Observer: Decision to Honor Durbin Ignites Fierce Opposition Over His Support for Abortion Rights (Chicago, USA)
- 2025-Sep-25 Exaudi News: WHO includes abortifacients in its list of essential medicines: WHO includes mifepristone and misoprostol in its 2025 list of essential medicines, generating debate on health and bioethics
- 2025-Sep-24 The Blast: Pedro Pascal Attacked For "Powerful" Abortion Rights Post: "WTF" (Chile)
- 2025-Sep-24 Yahoo! News: "South Park" Eviscerates FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Making Him Poop Himself, Take Plan B and Lose His Freedom of Speech (USA)
- 2025-Sep-24 Reproductive Freedom for All: Reproductive Freedom For All Responds to Susan B. Anthony Anti-Abortion Group's Plan to Buy Senate Seats in Michigan (USA)
- 2025-Sep-24 Reproductive Freedom for All: Reproductive Freedom For All Responds to Susan B. Anthony Anti-Abortion Group's Plan to Buy Senate Seats in Georgia (USA)
- 2025-Sep-24 Yahoo! News: Entertainment/Gossip: JT Reacts to Cardi B Alleging Lil Uzi Vert Forced Abortions, Threatens to "Tell Roc Nation" on Her (USA)
- 2025-Sep-24 Länderfokus: The fight for safe and legal abortions in the EU remains (Europe)
- 2025-Sep-23 ReformAustin: Texas Abortion Support Groups Vow To Keep Helping (USA)
- 2025-Sep-23 Truthout: The Anti-Migrant Crackdown Is Also a Reproductive Justice Crisis: Working on abortion access in Texas, we see every day how immigration justice and reproductive justice are inseparable (Texas, USA)
- 2025-Sep-23 USA Today: Kennedy memoir sheds light on former center of Supreme Court gay rights, abortion rulings: Former Justice Anthony Kennedy was surprised by the vehemence of the opposition to gay marriage. He considered stepping down from the court due to his personal feelings about abortion (USA)
- 2025-Sep-23 Substack Jessica: The Tylenol-Pregnancy Panic Could Be an Early Warning Sign (USA)
- 2025-Sep-23 WHO: New digital tools expand access and enhance quality in comprehensive abortion care
- 2025-Sep-23 The Indian Express: Punjab and Haryana High Court denies abortion to 14-year-old rape survivor, cites health risks (India)
- 2025-Sep-23 National Catholic Register: Cardinal Cupich Defends Decision to Honor Pro-Abortion Senator at Immigration Fundraiser (USA)
- 2025-Sep-23 State Court Report: The Power of State Reproductive Freedom Amendments: A new report analyzes the language and effects of recently adopted amendments protecting reproductive rights and highlights their potential for abortion access and beyond (USA)
- 2025-Sep-23 Reproductive Freedom for All: Reproductive Freedom for All Celebrates Adelita Grijalva's AZ-07 Special Election Win (Arizona, USA)
- 2025-Sep-23 Squamish Chief: Chicago archbishop's decision to honor US senator stirs Catholic abortion debate (Springfield, Illinois, USA)
- 2025-Sep-23 Truthout: FDA's Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook: Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can't make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead (USA)
- 2025-Sep-22 ABC News: The public hospital patients who ended up paying abortion clinics for miscarriage care (Brisbane, Australia)
- 2025-Sep-22 Pew Research: Public Opinion on Abortion: Views on abortion, 1995-2024 (USA)
- 2025-Sep-22 WHO: Transforming abortion care starts with education: Global partners unite to strengthen collaboration and build a skilled, respectful, rights-based health workforce
- 2025-Sep-22 Kentucky Lantern: Planned Parenthood "resolved" to keep serving Kentuckians even without Medicaid dollars (Kentucky, USA)
- 2025-Sep-22 OpenPR: Global Spotlight: Legal Challenges and Accessibility Issues Surrounding Abortion Pills in the United States - BirthControlPills247 Advocates for Safe Access
- 2025-Sep-22 Live Action: Washington state will fund Planned Parenthood following Medicaid cuts (USA)
- 2025-Sep-22 Page Six: Priscilla Presley tells all on abortion, Elvis "forcing" himself on her and why she never trusted Michael Jackson (USA)
- 2025-Sep-22 San Francisco Examiner: State bill removing names from abortion-pill bottles is "much-needed step" (California, USA)
- 2025-Sep-22 Nevada Independent: Nevada Democrats want to run on abortion in 2026. Will voters care? Economic concerns took precedence in 2024, but Democratic candidates such as Aaron Ford say abortion access will be key in 2026 (USA)
- 2025-Sep-21 SubStack Jessica: This Week in Abortion (USA)
- 2025-Sep-21 SWI: Thousands of anti-abortion activists march through Zurich suburb (Switzerland)
- 2025-Sep-21 Reproductive Freedom for All: Reproductive Freedom for All Congratulates Mikie Sherrill on Winning the First Debate in the New Jersey Gubernatorial Race (Washington, DC, USA)
- 2025-Sep-20 Malta Today: Protest on abortion rights set to take place on September 27 [2025]: The Voice for Choice coalition says abortion is a matter of healthcare and bodily autonomy, urging people to join a march in Valletta this month (Malta)
- 2025-Sep-20 Luxembourg Times: If you oppose abortion, just don't get one: Enshrining access to abortion in Luxembourg's constitution would safeguard a human right, says editor-in-chief Cordula Schnuer (Luxembourg)
- 2025-Sep-20 RTL Today: Abortion debate: Did France walk so Luxembourg could run? (France)
- 2025-Sep-20 MSN: Arrest warrant issued for New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pill (New York, USA)
- 2025-Sep-20 Times of Malta: Activists call for abortion law reform ahead of Valletta rally: Activists gathered outside Mater Dei with a banner which read "I came for care and ended up in court" (Malta)
- 2025-Sep-20 Workers' Liberty: No complacency on access to abortion (England and Wales, United Kingdom)
- 2025-Sep-20 Lovin Malta: "Abortion Is Not A Crime": Protest To Be Held In Valletta After Woman Prosecuted (Malta)
- 2025-Sep-20 The Pillar: Paprocki "shocked" by Durbin's Chicago award: "This decision risks causing grave scandal," Bishop Thomas Paprocki said (Washington, DC, USA)
- 2025-Sep-20 MSN: DCA suspends 165 licenses over illegal sale of abortion kits across Telangana (Hyderabad, India)
- 2025-Sep-20 DW: Germany updates: Protesters rally over climate, abortion (multiple cities, Germany)
- 2025-Sep-20 Maryville Forum: Judge orders revisions to ballot language for Missouri abortion ban proposal (USA)
- 2025-Sep-20 State Affairs: Kansas Abortion Laws Face High-Stakes Trial This Fall (Kansas, USA)
- 2025-Sep-19 Harvard: The Petre-Flom Center: When Evidence Burns: Abortifacient Ideology and the FDA (USA)
- 2025-Sep-19 Caribbean Life: [New York Attorney General Letitia] James intervenes to bar Texas abortion bans (USA)
- 2025-Sep-19 Spectrum News 13: Wisconsin senator wants VA to maintain Biden-era abortion policy (Washington, DC, USA)
- 2025-Sep-19 IPAS: Ipas research shows hidden barriers to abortion access for adolescents in Africa
- 2025-Sep-19 SubStack Jessica: Are Republicans Hiding Infant and Maternal Mortality Data? Women are twice as likely to die during pregnancy in states with abortion bans (USA)
- 2025-Sep-19 Spectrum News NY1: Missouri Judge strikes down ballot summary for anti-abortion measure backed by Republican lawmakers (USA)
- 2025-Sep-18 The Squamish Chief: Texas has a new abortion pill law, but at least one provider plans to keep shipping them there: Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a first-of-its-kind law that lets anyone sue prescribers and others responsible for getting abortion pills into the state (Texas, USA)
- 2025-Sep-18 EFF: EFF, ACLU to SFPD: Stop Illegally Sharing Data With ICE and Anti-Abortion States (USA)
- 2025-Sep-17 Fox40 News: Bold Call to Action: "Abortion and The Senseless Assault on Reproductive Rights"
- 2025-Sep-17 Medium: Outlawed Podcast: Abortion Doctors Release Second Season (USA)
- 2025-Sep-17 The Miami Hurricane: Abortion through a philosophical lens: moral
- 2025-Sep-17 Time Magazine: State Abortion Bans Are Creating a Doctor Shortage (USA)
- 2025-Sep-17 Luxembourg Times: Cardinal's "totalitarian" claims spark backlash over abortion rights: Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said enshrining right to abortion in Luxembourg's constitution risked turning democracy into totalitarianism (Luxembourg)
- 2025-Sep-17 Florida Politics: Kelly Skidmore files bill to end state funding for anti-abortion pregnancy centers (Florida, USA)
- 2025-Sep-17 Oregon Captial Chronicle: Oregon Democratic lawmakers form work group to brainstorm abortion access policy: Work group will focus on how state can reimburse Planned Parenthood for services (USA)
- 2025-Sep-17 Louisiana Illuminator: Abortion bans push families deeper into poverty and drive up crime, economists say: Researchers found a "strikingly large" relationship between restrictions on abortion and property crime, underscoring the connection between abortion bans and poverty (USA)
- 2025-Sep-17 Ms. Magazine: The Long Shadow of Dr. George Tiller: Abortion Providers Under Attack (USA)
- 2025-Sep-17 Hindustan Times: Man gets 20 years jail for raping 12-year-girl, forcing abortion in 2021 (India)
- 2025-Sep-17 Bloomberg: South Carolina Fails to Stave Off Abortion Ban Exception Lawsuit (USA)
- 2025-Sep-16 Ms. Magazine: Murder, Pardons, and Impunity: How Antiabortion Violence Escalated Under [Donald] Trump (USA)
- 2025-Sep-16 Fortune: Facebook, TikTok and even LinkedIn are censoring abortion content even when it's just medical information, rights groups say (USA)
- 2025-Sep-16 Zenit: [South] Korean [Catholic] bishops discuss abortion law with lawmakers (South Korea)
- 2025-Sep-16 Yahoo! News: Ohio's abortion ban is unconstitutional. Why is the state still fighting for it? (USA)
- 2025-Sep-16 NPR: The U.S. said it would burn $9.7 million of birth control; its fate is still unclear
- 2025-Sep-15 EFF: Our "Stop Censoring Abortion" Campaign Uncovers a Social Media Censorship Crisis
- 2025-Sep-15 Christian Concern: Abortion activist judge reported over concerns of impartiality in pro-life case (Ireland)
- 2025-Sep-14 Arkansas Times: 70 years of wisdom from an abortion rights icon (USA)
- 2025-Sep-14 National Review: This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—September 14 (Ohio, USA)
- 2025-Sep-14 Ms. Magazine: Why Attempts to Stop the Flow of Abortion Pills Into Texas Will Fail (USA)
- 2025-Sep-14 Drug Topics: Inadequate Contraceptive Information Hinders Equity in Reproductive Care (USA)
- 2025-Sep-13 El Pais: Menstruation apps: What happens to your data and how it can be used to criminalize abortion: Two investigations warn about how data collected through menstrual tracking apps can be used by governments to monitor people's reproductive lives, and by companies to make a profit
- 2025-Sep-13 The Dallas Morning News: Public Editor: Grading the "Standard of Fear" series on abortion (USA)
- 2025-Sep-12 ABC: Supreme Court gives Queensland hospital permission to terminate 12-year-old girl's pregnancy (Australia)
- 2025-Sep-12 Bloomberg Law: [Amy Coney] Barrett Says Security Tightened After Abortion Opinion Leak (USA)
- 2025-Sep-12 News18: "Baby Would Be Delivered": Charlie Kirk's Anti-Abortion Views Resurface Hours After His Killing
- 2025-Sep-11 14850: Reproductive Rights Film Festival brings free screenings and virtual programs to Ithaca (New York, USA)
- 2025-Sep-11 MSN: Once staunchly anti-abortion, Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate [Stacy] Garrity pivots on the issue (USA)
- 2025-Sep-11 WHO: Webinar for 2025-Sep-23: New language editions of the Clinical practice handbook for quality abortion care
- 2025-Sep-11 Politico: Establishment GOP pick in Pennsylvania governor race looks to pivot from her anti-abortion past: State treasurer Stacy Garrity abortion-proofs her campaign, even if it poses risks in a potential primary (Pennsylvania, USA)
- 2025-Sep-10 KPFA: Anti-Abortion: Gateway to the Far Right (Democracy Now!; USA)
- 2025-Sep-10 Internation Confederation of Midwives: Global Trends in Opposition to Women's Reproductive Autonomy
- 2025-Sep-10 WHO: International Safe Abortion Day 2025 (September 28)
- 2025-Sep-10 NPR: California considers allowing doctors to prescribe abortion drugs anonymously (USA)
- 2025-Sep-10 Yahoo! News: [Donald] Trump paid El Salvador $5M to jail deportees -- with conditions on abortion and DEI but not preventing torture (USA)
- 2025-Sep-09 CBC: Advocates call for more space for Yukon's only dedicated abortion clinic: Opal Clinic's new location in Whitehorse hospital puts patient privacy at risk, women's group says (Yukon, Canada)
- 2025-Sep-09 Washington Standard: Washington plans to destroy 30K expiring abortion pills: The state paid nearly $1.3 million for the mifepristone doses in 2023 out of fear access could be restricted (USA)
- 2025-Sep-09 WHO: Webinar for 2025-Sep-24: Human rights in comprehensive abortion care: Launching WHO Academy's new online course on rights-based abortion care
- 2025-Sep-08 The Texas Tribune: NY attorney general will intervene in Texas abortion pill access lawsuit: Letitia James, New York's attorney general, said Texas has no authority to "impose its cruel abortion ban here" (USA)
- 2025-Sep-08 New York Times: States Heading Toward Constitutional Showdown Over Abortion Shield Laws: Texas and New York are at the leading edge of an escalating States' rights battle over the mailing of abortion pills to patients in states with bans (USA)
- 2025-Sep-08 The 19th: Telehealth abortion could end up in front of the Supreme Court with this latest move: In a suit brought by Texas, New York Attorney General Letitia James will defend her state's abortion shield laws, which protect health providers offering telehealth abortions to people living under bans (USA)
- 2025-Sep-08 Yahoo! News: "Mean guy": [Donald] Trump rips into [Joe] Biden at Bible Museum for going after anti-abortion activists and January 6 [2021] rioters (USA)
- 2025-Sep-07 Slate: Want an IUD, but You're Afraid of the Pain? Try an Abortion Provider: The catch? Access to these doctors might be disappearing because of Republican attacks on women's reproductive rights (USA)
- 2025-Sep-06 The Georgia Straight: Dayglo Abortions released from jail in Ohio, with police promptly loading up on band T-shirts (Canadian band; USA)
- 2025-Sep-05 Intelligencer: The Explosive Lawsuit Challenging a Right-Wing Abortion-Pill Story
- 2025-Sep-05 The Conversation: Infant mortality rises in states with restrictive abortion laws -- new research (USA)
- 2025-Sep-04 KFF: State and Federal Reproductive Rights and Abortion Litigation Tracker (USA)
- 2025-Sep-04 MSNBC: Texas GOP approves ban on mail-order abortion pills and makes it easier to sue providers (USA)
- 2025-Sep-04 National Women's Law Center: The Anti-Abortion Movement Has Been Pushing a "Fetal Personhood" Strategy -- It's Not What You Think
- 2025-Sep-04 The Guardian: RFK Jr. hints access to key abortion drug could be cut back: Health secretary claims Biden officials "twisted the data" despite research showing mifepristone is safe and effective (USA)
- 2025-Sep-03 C-SPAN: House & Senate Democrats on Veterans Affairs Abortion Ban (USA)
- 2025-Sep-03 The Guardian: Trump's aid cuts in east Africa led to unwanted abortion and babies being born with HIV - report: Doctors, nurses, patients and other experts describe the loss of decades of progress in beating the virus in 100 days after Pepfar was disrupted (East Africa)
- 2025-Sep-03 Yahoo! News: Active-duty troops and veterans flood Trump administration website over cuts to abortion care: "Was my service to my country for naught?" (USA)
- 2025-Sep-02 Courier Journal: Is abortion legal in Kentucky? More on commonwealth's laws, nearby states (USA)
- 2025-Sep-02 Ms. Magazine: HealthHow Texas (USA) Abortion Restrictions Are Driving Doctors Away: "By Following the Law, I Was Doing the Wrong Thing Medically"
- 2025-Sep-02 BMC: Late request for safe abortion and its determinants among reproductive age women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis (Etheopia)
- 2025-Sep-01 The New Yorker: Do State Referendums on Abortion Work? Missouri voters approved a measure to protect abortion rights, but opponents have repeatedly blocked it from taking effect (USA)
- 2025-Sep-01 Euractiv: Commission to weigh abortion fund after pro-choice initiative: "This is the first time that the Commission has to consider abortion rights based on citizens' will," said Nika Kovač, organiser of the initiative (Europe)
- 2025-Aug-30 Hindustan Times: Is abortion illegal in India? Sonologist busts 6 myths about unplanned pregnancy: Know if your partner's consent matters (India)
- 2025-Aug-30 Vatican News: Korean bishops relaunch Pro-Life Movement amid abortion, euthanasia debates
- 2025-Aug-29 MSNBC: Texas moves a step closer to clearing way for civil lawsuits against abortion pill providers (USA)
- 2025-Aug-28 National Review: D.C. Pro-Lifers File Complaint Against Late-Term Abortion Doctor (Washington, DC, USA)
- 2025-Aug-28 Amnesty International: Poland: End investigation into conduct of doctor who provided a lawful late-term abortion
- 2025-Aug-28 RadioIQ WVTF: Why abortion is on the ballot in November (Virgina, USA)
- 2025-Aug-28 California State: Attorney General Bonta Issues Statement Ahead of Tomorrow’s Hearing in Defense of Emergency Abortion Care in Humboldt County (California, USA)
- 2025-Aug-25 Economic Confidential: How Conflict Zones in Nigeria Deny Women, Girls Their Reproductive Rights (Nigeria, West Africa)
- 2025-Aug-25 Politics Web: Dedicated surgical list for women's reproductive health welcomed: The DA in Western Cape welcomes the Groote Schuur Hospital's launch of dedicated surgical list for women's reproductive health (Western Cape, South Africa)
- 2025-Aug-25 Vanguard: Inclusive Health: Addressing the Overlooked Sexual and Reproductive Needs of Adolescents with Disabilities (Nigeria, West Africa)
- 2025-Aug-25 The New York Times: We Cannot Let America Abandon Female Veterans (USA)
- 2025-Aug-25 Prince William Times: Abortion is on the ballot signs; again, since November 2023 (USA)
- 2025-Aug-25 Ms. Magazine: Women's Equality Day Has Never Been More Urgent (USA)
- 2025-Aug-25 CT News Junkie: Connecticut Joins States Seeking To Ease Federal Restrictions On Abortion Pill (USA)
- 2025-Aug-25 KOIN: Washington, Oregon join states urging FDA to lift restrictions on abortion pill (USA)
- 2025-Aug-25 8 News Now: Patients traveling to Planned Parenthood in North Las Vegas for abortion medication (USA)
- 2025-Aug-25 The Salem News: Letter: A woman's right to control her own body (Ipswich, Suffolk, England)
- 2025-Aug-25 BRNO Daily: Large Majority of Czechs Support Abortion and Euthanasia Rights, Says Survey (Czechia)
- 2025-Aug-25 Counting Stars: This is how nazism used the promotion of abortion to perpetrate genocide (documents and testimonies collected in the minutes of the Nuremberg Trials)
- 2025-Aug-25 Ms. Magazine: Keeping Score: Democrats Fight Republican Redistricting; Periods Make College Students Miss Class; Costco Refuses to Sell (Safe, Legal) Abortion Pills to Appease Antiabortion Politics (USA)
- 2025-Aug-24 Evangelical Times: Date to be set for trial of pastor arrested for preaching John 3:16 [from the Holy Bible] (Ireland)
- 2025-Aug-24 The Daily: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Punches Back to Protect Women: Public colleges in Illinois will now provide contraception and medication abortion, thanks to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's ongoing fight to protect women's rights (Illinois, USA)
- 2025-Aug-24 Democrat Gazette: US judge in Hawaii hears mifepristone case (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
- 2025-Aug-24 The Center Square: Illinois expands campus abortion access, shields doctors from legal risk (USA)
- 2025-Aug-24 McGill Internation Review: Welcome to Unplanned America: What's at Stake in the Fight Over Planned Parenthood (USA)
- 2025-Aug-24 St. Louis American: Rising pregnancy prosecutions threaten rights and health care access (USA)
- 2025-Aug-23 The Observer: Farage's £13,000 speech to anti-abortion extremists: Reform leader's praise for the "grassroots army" raises questions about his stance on their extreme views (United Kingdom)
- 2025-Aug-23 WJBD: New laws aim to shield providers of abortion meds, ban ticketing in schools (Springfield, Illinois, USA)
- 2025-Aug-23 NDTV: Kerala Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil's Alleged "Abortion" Tape Leaked (Kerala, India)
- 2025-Aug-22 AOL: Planned Parenthood files legal challenge to protect Medicaid funding in South Carolina (USA)
- 2025-Aug-22 Independent: DA dropped charges against woman arrested for having an abortion after public outcry (Texas, USA)
- 2025-Aug-22 Slate: You Might Be Shocked Which State Is Prosecuting a Stillbirth as a Murder (Maryland, USA)
- 2025-Aug-22 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Gov. Shapiro joins push for FDA to remove restrictions on abortion medication (Pennsylvania, USA)
- 2025-Aug-22 AZ Mirror: Arizona (USA) leads push to remove federal restrictions on most common abortion pill
- 2025-Aug-21 Business In Vancouver: Mario Canseco: Support for abortion rights reaches highest level since 2013, survey finds: Only eight per cent of Canadians want abortion banned entirely, while 62 per cent see no point in reopening the debate, according to a new Research Co. poll (Canada)
- 2025-Aug-21 Research Co.: Support for Continuation of Legal Abortion Access Rises in Canada
- 2025-Aug-21 Ripples Nigeria: Police detains health worker over illegal abortion in Akwa Ibom (Nigeria)
- 2025-Aug-21 Wisconsin Examiner: Women in states with abortion bans are the biggest users of abortion telemedicine (USA)
- 2025-Aug-20 MSN: Ulster lawmakers OK defense funds for county clerk in abortion fight with Texas (USA)
- 2025-Aug-20 UW Medicine: Dr. Keemi Ereme, a UW Medicine OB-GYN, warns of crises in abortion access and maternal care (USA)
- 2025-Aug-20 Yahoo! News: [Donald] Trump's new co-FBI deputy director once tried to subpoena abortion patients' records (USA)
- 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 ABC News: Queensland Supreme Court judge rules 11-year-old girl should be allowed to have abortion (Australia)
- 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 Herald Malaysia: Korean bishops slam abortion amendment: South Korea's Catholic bishops have strongly opposed a proposed amendment to the country's abortion law, warning it undermines the right to life and could normalise abortion as a "routine medical procedure" (Seoul, South Korea)
- 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-Aug-09 AOL: Eleven domestic workers arrested over illegal abortions in Hong Kong
- 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 MSN: Senator Angus King Admits His Vote For Anti-Abortion Judge Was "A Mistake" (Maine, USA)
- 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-26 Doctors Without Borders (MSF): Five reasons why abortion is health care: Access to safe abortion care has a real impact on people's lives and health, from preventing unsafe abortions and complications to upholding bodily autonomy
- 2024-Sep-17 National Women's Law Centre: Project 2025: What It Means for Women, Families, and Gender Justice (USA)
- 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
- 2024-Jan-24 NBC News: 64K women and girls became pregnant due to rape in states with abortion bans, study estimates: The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states (USA)
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
News archive 2013
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- 2025-Sep-10 KPFA: Anti-Abortion: Gateway to the Far Right (Democracy Now!; USA)
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- 2025-Aug-20 UW Medicine: Dr. Keemi Ereme, a UW Medicine OB-GYN, warns of crises in abortion access and maternal care (USA)
- 2022-Jun-26 CBC: The National: Dr. Henry Morgentaler's son says the fight for abortion care must continue (Canada)
- 2013-May-29 CBC: The National: 2008 Interview with Dr. Henry Morgentaler (Canada)