News of abortion

Porn, sex abuse, gender: Pope tackles thorny issues in youth Q&A

05-04-2023 10:11 New film released Wednesday shows Pope Francis gamely confronting intimate accounts of abortion, gender identity, and paedophilia in the Catholic Church.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Inter-American court to hear first abortion rights case

22-03-2023 11:26 Woman, identified as "Beatríz", squaring off against El Salvador for case on the legality of denying access to abortion services

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Mabel Bianco: ‘The mechanisms we have to support women are not working’

08-03-2023 07:00 Physician, campaigner and activist Dr. Mabel Bianco on gender equality in Argentina, abortion reform, barriers to reproductive freedom and tackling violence against women.

by Erica Davis

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Feminists in El Salvador condemn state for denying woman life-saving abortion

08-03-2023 05:46 Feminist groups on Monday called on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to condemn El Salvador for denying a now deceased woman the possibility of aborting a brainless fetus in 2013, due to the criminalisation of termination of pregnancy in the country.

US MIDTERMS

The issues keeping US voters up at night as midterms loom

26-10-2022 14:35 As biennial elections approach, US voters divided on key issues.

Abortion rights

Rape of 10-year-old jolts US abortion debate

13-07-2022 20:41 Reports that a 10-year-old rape victim had to cross state lines to terminate her pregnancy draws broad attention in the United States.

UNITED STATES

US abortion ruling roils midterm election campaign

01-07-2022 13:52 Supreme Court ruling upends race to crucial vote that will decide who controls Congress for rest of Biden’s term in office.

ABORTION RIGHTS

Argentine demonstrators protest anti-abortion ruling outside US Embassy

27-06-2022 21:02 Group of female protesters march to the American Embassy in Buenos Aires to repudiate US Supreme Court ruling that overturns federal right to abortion in United States.

ABORTION RIGHTS

As United States undoes abortion rights, Chile works to enshrine them

27-06-2022 13:22 As the United States loses a five-decade-old right to abortion, Chile is gearing up to enshrine the same right in its constitution.

Abortion rights

'Massive setback' if US abortion rights overturned, says UN human rights chief

19-05-2022 12:30 Overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that guaranteed nationwide abortion access in the US, would be contrary to international human rights standards, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Wednesday.

Abortion Debate

After abortion, gay marriage? Fears US court may target other rights

05-05-2022 13:51 With the US Supreme Court poised to roll back half a century of abortion rights, activists fear conservatives will set their sights on other constitutional freedoms like same sex unions.

Abortion Debate

Biden calls for US voters to push back on 'radical' abortion draft ruling

03-05-2022 15:07 Joe Biden on Tuesday urged US voters to defend access to abortion, describing as “radical” a draft Supreme Court ruling that suggested the conservative-dominated high court was poised to shred nearly 50 years of constitutional protections by striking down the nationwide right.

ABORTION DEBATE

Overturning Roe would set US against global wave on abortion rights

03-05-2022 14:06 United States would stand in contrast to countries like Argentina and Ireland, where abortion access has increased in recent years.

ABORTION RIGHTS

Colombian court decriminalises abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy

22-02-2022 10:31 Colombia is now the fifth Latin American country to decriminalise abortion access, along with Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba and Guyana.

Abortion rights

Horror in Tucumán: 10-year-old girl gives birth following rape

14-01-2022 17:24 Young girl had been sexually abused by her foster mother's partner; Accused has been on the run since last October.

ABORTION RIGHTS

A year on from passage of Argentina’s abortion law, change remains slow

13-01-2022 08:00 The passage of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bill roughly one year ago gave hope to millions of women in Argentina, but changing mentalities, practices and infrastructure has proved more difficult.

LGBT rights

Chile same-sex marriage vote delayed, abortion bill shelved

30-11-2021 16:05 Chile's parliament on Tuesday postponed a vote on a long-awaited bill to legalise same-sex marriage and shelved another to decriminalise abortion.

ABORTION RIGHTS

Thousands march for abortion rights in Latin America

29-09-2021 08:47 Thousands of women took to the streets across Latin America Tuesday to demand abortion rights, a practice largely prohibited in the region where hundreds of women are serving prison time under draconian laws.

Abortion rights

Mexico's Supreme Court rules criminalising abortion is unconstitutional

08-09-2021 11:36 Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously declares that criminalising early-term abortion is unconstitutional, a historic decision that loosens limits on the procedure in a region where few countries offer access without restriction.