Harmonie Perrone health and life was devastated by a Catholic hospital in Illinois that refused to treat her for an ectopic pregnancy, resulting in infertility and a real risk of death. Illinois is a pro-choice state but Catholic facilities can enforce shadow bans.
Using a mystery client method, a new study shows that many pharmacists and drug sellers in Addis Ababa Ethiopia have the knowledge and skills to provide quality medication abortion care. Abortion is legal for a broad range of indications in Ethiopia, so this could help improve access.
Amid the angst in NSW Australia about the anti-choice bill to ban sex-selection abortion, we learn here that sex-selection abortions are already banned under NSW health policy and were formally opposed by parliament in 2019. How unfortunate. It paved the way for anti-choice laws.
The monarch of Nigeria's Ogun State has asked the state Assembly to quickly pass a bill into law that would provide for safe abortion. They said: "strict laws mean that many women are forced to seek the service of unqualified practitioners with resultant high morbidity and mortality."
Finland's ruling National Coalition Party has just backed a proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the Finnish Constitution, following a vote at its party congress. The decision comes two weeks after the opposition Social Democratic Party adopted a similar position.
Harmonie Perrone, 28, is suing Advocate Good Shepherd in Illinois, where reproductive rights are enshrined in law
An important analysis that shows that the Supreme Court's analysis in the Dobbs case against abortion rights, is distorting other areas of law. Some courts are relying on Dobbs to reject sex-discrimination claims in contraception, marriage, student privacy, and gender-affirming care.
The US gov't shut down USAID in 2025, abruptly cutting health care supply chains and global health programs, causing immense harm. The new US health aid packages for 7 African countries are conditioned on abortion surveillance, extractive rights to pathogen samples, and access to Zambia’s minerals.
In China, Japan, and South Korea - societies shaped by thousands of years of Confucian philosophy - the reaction to the story of Jesse and Ashley Ridgway would be almost the opposite. In these cultures, the dominant question is not “Is the fetus a person?” It is “What is best for the family?”
Ms. Magazine has launched a Feminist Lessons series, exploring what each decade of modern feminist history in the U.S. can teach us about power, democracy, backlash and social change. This essay is mostly about abortion rights.
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Universal coverage works! Two years after BC implemented its free contraception program, patient spending was 83% lower than expected, with an average savings of $43 per contraceptive user per year.
Global Abortion Rights News
Global Abortion Rights News
The 2000s opened with a contradiction: Feminist ideas had never been more popular—polls found that overwhelming majorities of women and substantial majorities of men agreed with the basic definition o...
Dobbs’ retrograde constitutional analysis has made its way into cases on trans rights, student privacy, and contraception, threatening to further limit equality and liberty rights.
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The United States government is conditioning lifesaving health assistance on broad access to surveillance data and extractive rights to pathogen samples and data for pharmaceutical development.
Jesse Ridgway and his wife's decision to abort their pregnancy after prenatal testing confirmed the foetus had Trisomy 21 triggered massive outrage in the US. But in East Asia, bringing a severely dis...
Researchers at UBC found that B.C.'s decision to provide universal, no-cost prescription contraception sharply reduced what patients pay, with the largest financial gains for people in their 20s.
