Trump plays it safe on abortion
Former president Donald Trump has finally unveiled his policy on abortion, which promises to be an incendiary issue in the 2024 election campaign. In a...
Czech doctors abort wrong baby
An expectant mother lost her baby after a horrifying mistake in a hospital in the Czech Republic. A foreign woman who was four months pregnant...
In Scotland 4 out of 10 women choose abortion because they can’t afford childcare
Four in 10 women in Scotland who have terminated a pregnancy say that the cost of childcare was the primary motivation for their decision. Research...
The abortion pill controversy mixes science, law and politics in a toxic brew
Medication abortions accounted for 63% of all abortions in the United States in 2023, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute. In 2020, only...
European Parliament deputies call for abortion to be made a ‘fundamental right’
France’s decision to include a right to abortion in its constitution has revived moves to include it in European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. “Deciding about one’s...
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...