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...
Are medication abortion drugs polluting waterways?
The abortion industry is polluting America’s water and the government is ignoring it, according to a citizens’ petition lodged with the US Food and Drug...
US Supreme Court allows abortion pill to remain widely available while appeals proceed
Last week the Supreme Court granted a request from the Biden administration and a drug manufacturer to put on hold a ruling by a federal judge in...
Abortion medication heads for the US Supreme Court after duelling courts produce inconsistent results
The legal status of medication abortion is in turmoil in the United States as two judges in different courts issued completely different rulings, both on...
Seeking an ethical way to support pro-abortion doctors in anti-abortion states
The landscape of conscientious objection has changed. Back in 2006, when abortion was legal across the United States in the decades after Roe v. Wade,...
95% of Irish women who know that their unborn child is Down syndrome have abortions
Abortion was only legalized in Ireland in 2018. One of the consequences is that the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, a leading maternity hospital, reports that...
US FDA makes abortion pill easier to access
The latest battle in America’s abortion war is a policy shift by the Food and Drug Administration which will allow retail pharmacies to sell mifepristone,...