#abortion

Italy’s Constitutional Court has barred Sicily from advertising jobs reserved for health workers willing to perform abortions, but said on Friday the southern region could find alternative ways to ...

By Seda Saluk Pregnant women crossing borders to get an abortion. People who miscarry facing jail time or dying from infection. Doctors who won’t perform lifesaving procedures on a ...

Buried behind closed doors lies a legal practise that allows people with disabilities to be forcibly sterilised if their guardian deems them unfit to be a parent. Branded as a ...

Lawmakers in Arizona’s House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to repeal an 1864 ban on abortion that could still go into effect within weeks if not also knocked down by ...

France on Monday enshrined the right to abortion in its constitution, a world first welcomed by women’s rights groups as historic and harshly criticised by anti-abortion groups. MPs and ...

The House human rights committee will discuss women’s reproductive rights this week, following a woman’s testimony on Saturday that it took five days for doctors at Makarios hospital ...

Anaesthesiologists working at Makarios hospital are refusing to participate in some abortions citing religious reasons, it emerged in parliament on Monday. In a letter shared to the House human rights ...

The manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to preserve broad access to the drug as the company appealed a lower court’s ...

Abortion rights supporters and opponents will hold dueling rallies around the U.S. on Saturday, the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ...

Mickey Mouse is a demon that has come to suck in Christian children, bishop of Morphou Neofytos said in a recent lecture that has cause a social media storm. Speaking ...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to intervene to stop restrictions set by a federal judge on the abortion ...

A man and a woman were arrested in Paphos on Thursday evening after police discovered the woman attempted to end her pregnancy after taking some unprescribed pills. According to Paphos ...

Bishop Isaias of Tamasos and Orenis said he considers any process that interrupts human development after conception, “unacceptable,” saying that in this matter he agrees with the position of the ...

France’s lower house on Thursday voted by a large majority to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution, with MPs on the left and centre saying the U.S. Supreme ...

Pregnant women in the U.S. state of Georgia will be able to deduct their fetuses as dependents on their taxes under a 2019 anti-abortion law that a judge allowed to ...

Abortion legislation may have been modernised in 2018 but if what was said at the House human rights committee on Monday is anything to go by, the new provisions have largely ...

The House human rights committee on Monday discussed the obstacles and limitations faced by women seeking an abortion in Cyprus, in light of the US Supreme Court’s recent changes ...

A march to demand improved abortion laws and healthcare coverage across the island will be held in Nicosia on Friday. Against the backdrop of the US supreme court decision to ...

A woman’s right to terminate pregnancies should be fully covered by the national health scheme (Gesy), including psychological support, presidential candidate and lawyer Achilleas Demetriades said on Tuesday. Against ...

The US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a constitutional right to an abortion is expected to have a disproportionate impact on Black women and other women of color, who ...

People attending Pride celebrations hosted by LGBTQ+ communities across the United States expressed outrage at the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, and a wave ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion, a decision condemned by President Joe Biden that ...

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the strictest abortion ban in the United States, one that prohibits abortions from fertilization and allows private citizens to sue those ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would end the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion could imperil other freedoms related to marriage, sexuality and ...