More pushback after SCOTUS leak
A number of journalists and politicians have issued dire forecasts of what will happen if the US Supreme Court does strike down Roe v. Wade...
Did legalizing abortion in Ethiopia lead to fewer deaths?
In 2005 Ethiopia legalized abortion in the hope of reducing maternal mortality. Its law was quite liberal – more or less like abortion legislation in...
The mists lift over a post-Roe landscape
This week the online magazine Politico published a leaked draft opinion from the US Supreme Court which would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision...
Abortion after mix-up at New York IVF clinic
A Massachusetts couple has aborted a baby at 6 months and is suing their IVF clinic after discovering that the baby was not related to...
Conscientious objection is ‘indefensible’, says WHO
The latest abortion care guidelines from the World Health Organization severely criticise conscientious objection (CO) as a major obstacle to making abortion freely available. “Conscientious...
West Virginia bans Down syndrome abortions
The US state of West Virginia has banned abortion of foetuses with Down syndrome and other disabilities. . The “Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection...
Abortion: no clear road ahead globally
The right to abortion is taken for granted in many countries but is bitterly contested in others. In fact, not just in the United States,...
Biden backs abortion rights and transgender treatment for minors in his State of the Union address
President Joe Biden dug in his heels over two controversial bioethical issues in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. He began by giving...
Colombia decriminalises abortion
Colombia’s constitutional court voted this week to decriminalize abortion in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Colombia is the third large country in Latin America...
European Parliament opposes conscientious objection to abortion
The election of Roberta Metsola as president of the European Parliament has revived a debate on its position on abortion. She is the youngest-ever President...
‘March for Life’ in Washington DC rally draws tens of thousands
The annual “March for Life” rally in Washington DC on Friday attracted tens of thousands of pro-life activists – most of them young. Energizing the...
Folx, abortion is OK but transphobic pronouns are not OK
Dispatch from the Reproductive Revolution. Quinn Jackson, MD, (they/he) is a family medicine physician in Kansas City, Missouri, and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive...