Back in Town - (1996)

Some people seeking to influence public opinion about abortion rights claim the science is clear. It’s not, and that means abortion remains a political question – not a biological one.

A law banning abortion from as early as six weeks into pregnancy has come into effect in the US state of Texas. It bans abortions after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat, something medical authorities say is misleading. The law, one of the most restrictive in the country, took effect after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers.

If we continue to qualify our belief in personal autonomy, it paves the way for the removal of other basic freedoms.

Over the last year of the pandemic, 23 tiny towns in Texas have approved local laws declaring themselves “sanctuary cities for the unborn”, passing ordinances to make the procedure punishable by a $2,000 fine. In April, the tiny village of Hayes Center, Nebraska, became the 24th, and the first outside Texas.

Women in Italy who had an abortion or miscarriage discovered the fetus had been given a religious burial, in a grave marked with the mother's name, without their consent.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s groundbreaking abortion law went into force Sunday under the watchful eyes of women’s groups and government officials, who hope to ensure its full...

A constitutional reform would require a three-quarters majority in congress to overturn Latin America’s most draconian ban

The Senate vote on Wednesday was a major victory for Latin America’s growing feminist movement, and its ripple effects are likely to be widespread.

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning. Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a question for the first time: What is it like to raise a child with Down syndrome?

A strike is under way in Poland by women opposed to a court ruling that introduced a near-total ban on abortion in the mainly Catholic country. Crowds have protested in several cities for the seventh-day running against the decision that outlawed terminations on the grounds of severe health defects. An opinion poll conducted for Gazeta Wyborcza suggested that 59% of those surveyed disagreed with the change.

SALEM, MA — The Satanic Temple (TST) has appealed a member’s reproductive rights case to the US Supreme Court in response to the Eighth Circuit Court’s dismissal of TST’s claim that Missouri abortion laws violate TST’s religious beliefs.

Some Republicans say it’s God’s punishment for a sinful society. Others say it’s an anti-Trump hoax. But here’s a take you’ve probably never heard before: COVID-19 saves lives. That’s the claim made by Kathaleen Wall, a Texas Republican running for Congress in 2020, in a particularly ill-advised Facebook post thanking Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton for declaring abortions non-essential medical care, effectively shutting down abortion clinics across the entire state.

Standing in front of the US Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, Dennis McKirahan was in a hopeful mood. “It’s a great day,” he said, glancing at the blue sky. “The sun is shining in me and outside.” He and around a dozen other activists were with the group Shofar Call International, a Christian group that blows a horn typically used in Jewish ceremonies called the shofar as part of anti-abortion demonstrations and religious events. “In Hebrew the Shofar is also referred to as the Bat Kol or the Voice of Heaven,” the group’s website states.

After the state Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution protected abortion, Republican lawmakers proposed amending it to give them more leeway to regulate the procedure.

According to Americans United for Life and conservative lawmakers, everyone expects the Supreme Court to end legal abortion eventually, so why wait when the Court could do so this summer in June Medical Services?

Ohio introduces one of the most extreme bills to date for a procedure that does not exist in medical science

In 1956, two American physicians, J. A. Presley and W. E. Brown, colleagues at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, decided that four recent admissions to their hospital were significant enough to warrant a published report. “Lysol-Induced Criminal Abortion” appeared in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. It describes four women who were admitted to the hospital in extreme distress...

Pro-choice activists say decision is a death sentence, after illegal abortions resulted in 15.6% of maternal deaths in 2014

Abortion has now been decriminalized in almost all of Australia after the country's most populous state voted to overturn a 119-year-old law. On Thursday, lawmakers in New South Wales -- which is home to Sydney -- voted to pass a bill that decriminalizes abortion and makes terminations available to people who are less than 22 weeks pregnant.