In Spain, the Madrid government is unwilling to provide a list of objectors - doctors who deny care based on their personal beliefs - so the federal gov't filed a lawsuit and the Supreme Court has ordered the registry. Shockingly, these lists are not made available to patients, who need it the most.

Although "therapeutic abortion" has been legally permitted in Peru since 1924 in cases of serious risk to life or health, thousands victims of sexual violence cannot access this basic right. Peru has had setbacks to reproductive rights with the rise of Conservative politicians.

A bright spot in India's endless court cases on abortion? "Nine in ten women who knock on the Bombay High Court’s doors in search of reproductive justice are heard, and heard quickly. Yet for one in ten, the outcome may turn out to be inconsistent with constitutional promises they’re entitled to."

Zimbabwe - Traditional leaders in Hwedza district recently convened a meeting to address the growing number of women and girls dying from unsafe abortions. Participants emphasised improving awareness of the legal provisions governing pregnancy termination.

The Hyde Amendment was an opening salvo in two contemporary wars: on women and on the poor. The right to abortion became a right only for those who could afford it. In the years since its passage, about 1 in 4 women who would have obtained an abortion paid for by Medicaid instead gave birth.

"The Price of Safety: Stories of Abortions Denied, Careers Disrupted, and States Left Behind" details the human and economic toll of abortion bans. The anthology uses stories from patients, doctors, business leaders, and others to show the real-world consequences of abortion bans.

A study has found that state abortion bans had an “economically meaningful and statistically significant” effect on rental markets. Housing markets with abortion bans experienced a 2.2% decline in rental prices and a 1.1% increase in vacancies, compared to similar markets in states without bans.

A dominant anti-choice claim is that medication abortion must be restricted in the US because of its supposed use in coercive attempts to end a person’s pregnancy without their knowledge or consent. In reality, this narrative is an effort to justify new restrictions on abortion and bodily autonomy.

The chronic shortage of family planning commodities in Kenyan public hospitals is a direct violation of bodily autonomy. Kenya’s Constitution guarantees reproductive health but over 60% of facilities face frequent contraceptive stock‑outs.

While the new abortion funding pathway set by the European Union offers a legislative solution, it lacks long-term financial security . The fund relies on voluntary budgetary reallocation by member states, leaving women dependent on political goodwill of national governments.

Bahrain is moving to ease its total abortion ban. Abortion would be allowed when the pregnancy poses a serious risk to the woman’s life or when the foetus suffers from severe deformities incompatible with life after birth. Islamic "religious guidance" was sought for the proposal.

Here's results of a global survey that included a question about whether abortion is "morally unacceptable." Some percentages of those who believe that include: - Canada - 19% - USA - 47% - Sweden - 5% (the least) - Indonesia - 93% (the most)

A new study in Uganda has found that respectful, supportive interactions between providers and clients are an essential step toward delivering high-quality, equitable, and respectful abortion care.

Abortion is almost completely illegal in Brazil, yet that doesn't stop heartless right-wing politicians from trying to restrict it more, including for minors who were victims of rape and incest. From 2017 to 2024, 103 bills to restrict abortion were introduced across the country.

Nearly $1.3 billion in local, state or federal government grants were awarded to 1,259 crisis pregnancy centers in total between 2019 and 2024 (in the US). These centers are doing real harm to pregnant people, as this report documents.

A systematic review of 19 studies examining abortion stigma in high-income countries found that it is present at moderate levels. Abortion stigma was stronger in males, people with lower income, political conservatives, and religious individuals.

This is SO frustrating. Politicians in South Korea assume a law is necessary before "allowing" abortion, but NO. Doctors and clinics just need best practice guidelines. Politicians need to stay out of healthcare, except to ensure it is accessible to all and fully funded.

"We must confront a pressing thematic concern that sits at the heart of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Kenya: the growing confusion, stigma, and systemic barriers surrounding access to safe abortion, despite constitutional guarantees." - Kelvin Mokaya

In launching the My Voice, My Choice campaign in Europe, Nika Kovač and her team gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures. But reaching 1 million would not be possible without the help of people she met in her Obama Europe Leaders cohort. Kovač says their support pushed the movement forward.

Guillermina Edith Juárez Leyva of Mexico: "As indigenous women, we have knowledge in our memories; our grandmothers performed abortions. By recovering this wisdom, we confront narratives that promote guilt or criminalization. We promote life by accompanying and supporting other women."

In honour of International Women’s Day, the Center for Reproductive Rights is celebrating their biggest wins on securing access to reproductive justice for women and girls around the world.

Anti-abortion protests have been a fixture at North Carolina's "A Preferred Women’s Health Center" for decades. But it got much worse since the Covid pandemic and the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. Up to 20,000 protesters now target the Charlotte clinic each year.

"Anti-abortion advocates aim to confuse women by promoting ‘abortion reversal,’ [which]...lacks credible scientific support. Quite simply, there is no ethical way to design an abortion reversal study. Meanwhile, we have 25 years of evidence proving that medication abortion is safe and effective."

An NGO in Nigeria has urged the government to include rape and incest in the Safe Termination of Pregnancy Guidelines, to ensure women and girls can access abortions for those reasons.

In 1969, Victoria Foe, Judy Smith and Barbara Hines were students at the University of Texas in Austin, when they began attending women’s liberation meetings. It quickly grew into a campus Birth Control Information Center, and eventually an underground network helping women access abortion.

"A policy that accelerates a global maternal and child health crisis cannot credibly be described as pro-life. As care fragments and organizations are forced into silence, the fallout is predictable and permanent: Survivors will navigate trauma alone, and women will die."

Despite the availability of safe and legal abortion in Ghana, most women still resort to unsafe abortion, especially young women.

A regional initiative was conducted in February in Lomé, Togo, and Benin, aimed at strengthening the legal framework for sexual and reproductive health in Francophone Africa.

Abortion provider Dr SP Choong of Malaysia says that teen pregnancy data in a Ministry of Health report is misleading because it counts only hospital births, not abortions. "As always, abortion is the invisible elephant in the room whenever unwanted teen pregnancies are discussed."

Selma Hajri, doctor and human rights defender from Tunisia: "The truth is that I have never stopped. Fighting for our rights still gives me a reason to live. My message to young activists is: keep going, keep going, keep going. Despite the many difficulties and obstacles, there’s no other way."

In the UK, anti-abortion groups are mounting a coordinated campaign to strip away access to abortion pills through the postal system, using the House of Lords to try and drag our healthcare back to the Victorian era.

Applications to medical residency programs in states that enacted new abortion restrictions dropped sharply following the Dobbs ruling. The largest decreases were in obstetrics and gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine and emergency medicine.

At least eight states have given TANF funds (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) to crisis pregnancy centers in recent years. It's literally taking food out of the mouths of babes in order to fund anti-choice ideology and lies.

First, the woman committed NO crime. Abortion is decriminalized in South Korea, which means it's completely legal with no restrictions. While no law is needed, it's the fault of the gov't and medical associations for not putting in place best practice guidelines for safe abortion care.

Luxembourg lawmakers have voted to enshrine the freedom to have an abortion in the country’s constitution. However, wording was changed from "right" to "freedom" making it much weaker, and the country has a 12-week abortion limit that won't change.

Lauren Wolfe: "Human 'flourishing,' apparently, has caveats now. ... This is the strange violence of policy: It advances in paperwork and speaks in abstractions. It insists on its own benevolence. And then, very far from Washington, ...women and girls absorb the cost."

Justice for Izabela! A Polish court has sentenced three doctors to prison over the 2021 death of Izabela from sepsis during a 22-week miscarriage, after doctors refused to help. "This was a case involving extraordinary negligence, a pure disregard for the most basic and fundamental medical duties."

“Every moment of that abortion was a surprise to me,” says Annie Ernaux. The French Nobel Prize laureate in literature is talking about a backstreet abortion that nearly killed her in 1963. At the time she was a 23-year-old student with ambitions to become a writer.

Between 2009 and 2023, campaigners in El Salvador secured the release of dozens of women imprisoned for abortion-related charges, miscarriages, stillbirths and obstetric emergencies. But now, under the country’s "state of emergency" imposed by dictator Nayib Bukele, progress is unravelling.

A new co-authored policy brief by Guttmacher and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, examines renewed efforts by anti-abortion policymakers to restrict school-based sex education and reshape curricula to advance an anti-abortion agenda.

Haiti’s humanitarian crisis is a sexual and reproductive health emergency for Haitian women and girls. Emergency contraception, post-rape care, maternal health services, HIV prevention, and access to safe, legal abortion all need to be core components of humanitarian response.

The global reproductive rights organization Ipas will be receiving "multi millions" from TED's Audacious Project. This is the first time the project has funded an organization that works specifically in abortion access and care since the initiative was developed in 2018.

Given that abortion in Malta remains a criminal offence punishable by prison for both the woman and her doctor, Maltese women will have to depend on other countries stepping up to fund their travel, if they need a later abortion.

North Korean defectors arrested by Chinese authorities were detained in border security facilities for interrogation, where they endured beatings and forced labor. Pregnant defectors, particularly those trafficked to Chinese men, were subjected to forced abortions or had their newborns killed.

More than 5.6 million American women live in counties with no or limited access to maternity care. The rise in maternity deserts is most likely a factor in the decline of early prenatal care. Restrictive abortion bans don't help either.

“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions." Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.

No crime was committed, yet a South Korean woman faces a murder charge for having an abortion at 36 weeks. She did not know she was pregnant until a late stage and was then delayed by a lack of access and information and repeated refusals. South Korea has no abortion law or gestational limits.

On this episode of The Thought Project (46 mins),Amy Adamczyk talks about her book Fetal Positions: Understanding the Cross-National Public Opinion About Abortion. Adamczyk unpacks why views about abortion vary so widely around the world.

My Voice My Choice coordinator Nika Kovač: "Today is a victory for women in Europe and a good day for European democracy. For the first time, the Commission confirms unequivocally that EU funds can be used to guarantee access to safe abortion care – particularly for women in vulnerable situations."

A dispute over shortages of abortion medication in Argentina has escalated into a broader constitutional battle over whether the government is upholding the country’s 2020 abortion law. (They are not! The drug shortages are deliberate.)