France incorporates abortion into its constitution
France has become the first country in the world to guarantee a right to abortion in its constitution. Lawmakers in a joint sitting of the...
Telemedicine for abortion pills is healthy and safe, says study
Supporters of telemedicine for medication abortions have been heartened by a study published in the leading journal Nature Medicine this week. The researchers, from the University of...
Key papers which opposed abortion pill retracted
Academia is not all tea and crumpets in the senior common room. Sometimes it's a blood sport, with victors and victims, winners and losers. Raising...
What is the real story of rape pregnancies after Dobbs?
Sometimes it seems that the precision of statistics is inversely proportion to their reliability. A widely reported research letter to the journal JAMA Internal Medicine...
Should doctors and nurses be disciplined for reporting illegal abortions?
Between 1861 and November 2022, only three British women had ever been convicted of having an illegal abortion. But, writes Zoe Williams in The Guardian,...
New York Times tackles the ethics of aborting Down syndrome kids
The New York Times is widely regarded as the most authoritative news source in the United States. How about ethical advice from its in-house ethicist,...
Fight over abortion continues in Texas
Texas has been a battleground over abortion for years and the shooting hasn’t stopped since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in Dobbs...
Do women suffer from depression after their abortions?
“It’s important for folks to know that abortion does not cause mental health problems,” Debra Mollen, of Texas Woman’s University, told the American Psychological Association...
Americans wrestle with definition of abortion
Abortion is just as inflammable and divisive an issue as ever in the United States, but the rhetoric is changing. The best illustration of the...
Mexico decriminalises abortion
Mexico's supreme court has decriminalised abortion for the entire country. Its supreme court has declared that refusing to provide terminations violates the human rights of...
US court ruling on abortion pill sparks concerns about FDA approvals
In a significant ruling on medication abortion in the United States last week, a three-judge panel from the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit...
Is it true that 99% of women believe that their abortion was the right decision?
How do women see their past abortions? The received wisdom is that abortion equals unwanted pregnancy: most women want their abortion and are satisfied with...