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,...
‘I felt like a knife had been put into my heart’: Down syndrome woman
The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge brought by a woman with Down syndrome against a provision of the Abortion Act which...
Democrats have bet heavily on abortion in the midterms. Will their strategy work?
Today Americans vote in their midterm elections. The Democrats’ campaign strategy was to place big bets on abortion rights after Dobbs. They believed that they...
Are mothers really the majority of American women who have abortions?
“59% Of Women Seeking Abortions Are Mothers Facing High Poverty Risk” is a typical headline, especially after Dobbs. The idea that mothers, especially low-income mothers...
Dramatic decrease in abortions since Dobbs
According to a pro-abortion research centre, there has been a dramatic decrease in abortions as state bans shut down abortion clinics in the two months...
Savita’s memory continues to fuel abortion debate in Ireland
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Savita Halappanavar in University Hospital Galway. That tragic event led to protests and eventually to...
Medical students need to hear both sides of the abortion debate, says pro-abortion bioethicist
Something odd seems to be going on in the abortion debate in universities. In many places there isn’t one, complains Ezio Di Nucci, of the...