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...
NEJM warns of increased intimate-partner violence after Dobbs and Bruen
The number of reasons to reject the reversal of Roe v. Wade continues to grow. In an opinion piece in the NEJM, perhaps the world’s...
Civil disobedience against Dobbs?
On June 24 the US Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade and declared that there was no right to abortion in the American Constitution. Ever...
Medicos push back against post-Dobbs abortion restrictions
Supporters of legal abortion are fighting back in medical journals as well as at the ballot box and on social media. The consistent theme is...
After Dobbs, abortion needs ethicists, not Twitter heroes
After the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, abortion is the hottest issue in town. One bioethicist writing in the American Journal of...
Will abortion increase maternal mortality?
In a widely-cited study, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that a complete ban on all abortions in the United States will increase...
After 49 years, SCOTUS strikes down Roe v Wade, abolishing a constitutional right to abortion
The US Supreme Court has struck down two of the most famous decisions in American history, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which...
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...