Posts tagged with "abortion"

UK top court: can't enforce abortion law change in N. Ireland Britain

UK top court: can't enforce abortion law change in N. Ireland

June 7th, 2018 Britain's Supreme Court said on Thursday that Northern Ireland's strict abortion law was incompatible with human rights, but also said it did not have the powers to make a formal ruling that the law should be changed. Four out of seven Supreme Court justices who considered the issue found that the socially conservative British...
Ireland votes in ‘once-in-a-generation’ abortion referendum (Update 2) Europe

Ireland votes in ‘once-in-a-generation’ abortion referendum (Update 2)

May 25th, 2018 Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he was quietly confident that a strong early turnout in Ireland's abortion referendum on Friday would favour those seeking change in what only two decades ago was one of Europe's most socially conservative countries. Opinion polls suggest voters in the once deeply Catholic nation are set to overturn...
Irish women open up about abortion ahead of referendum Europe

Irish women open up about abortion ahead of referendum

May 9th, 2018 When posters with the words 'Licence To Kill' were put up in her neighbourhood in advance of Ireland's referendum on abortion, Amy Callahan decided to share the story of travelling to Britain to terminate her pregnancy. Callahan, 35, and her partner Connor Upton were told 12 weeks into her pregnancy that the foetus had anencephaly, a...
Parliament decriminalises abortion (Updated) Cyprus

Parliament decriminalises abortion (Updated)

March 30th, 2018 After years of discussion parliament on Friday passed with an overwhelming majority a law decriminalising abortion. The controversial matter – which had remained largely stagnant out of fear of reprisal from the church – was voted into law with 33 votes in favour, eight against and five abstentions. It allows termination of an...
Anti-abortion group sends plastic embryos to MPs Cyprus

Anti-abortion group sends plastic embryos to MPs

March 29th, 2018 A women’s group which opposes abortions this week sent MPs small plastic embryos through the mail along with graphic images of dead foetuses, as parliament prepares to vote on the issue on Friday. According to daily Phileleftheros, a group who call themselves Women in Support of Life, sent MPs plastic embryos and literature with...
MPs to vote on abortion decriminalisation bill on March 30 Health

MPs to vote on abortion decriminalisation bill on March 30

March 19th, 2018 The bill on the decriminalising abortion will be tabled to the House plenum for a vote next week, MPs said on Monday. The around three-year long discussion of the bill by the House human rights committee was completed on Monday and MPs will vote on March 30. Disy MP and head of the committee, Stella Kyriakides, said that the bill...
MPs prepare to take on church over abortions Cyprus

MPs prepare to take on church over abortions

February 26th, 2018 The bill on the decriminalisation of abortions does not aim at facilitating terminations but at giving women the right to choose and access to safe medical procedures, the head of the House human rights committee, Stella Kyriakides, said on Monday. MPs, who were meeting to discuss the bill proposal which aims to give women the right...
N. Ireland abortion laws violate women's rights, UN body says Britain

N. Ireland abortion laws violate women's rights, UN body says

February 23rd, 2018 The United Kingdom violates women's rights in Northern Ireland by unduly restricting their access to abortion, a report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women said on Friday. “Denial of abortion and criminalisation of abortion amounts to discrimination against women because it is a denial of a service...
Ireland to hold abortion referendum at the end of May Europe

Ireland to hold abortion referendum at the end of May

January 30th, 2018 Ireland's government has proposed holding a referendum to liberalise the country's abortion regime at the end of May, offering voters the first opportunity in 35 years to overhaul some of the world's strictest laws. Abortion has long been a divisive issue in once stridently Catholic Ireland, which has witnessed a wave of social...
Abortion doctor is released as push to change law intensifies Cyprus

Abortion doctor is released as push to change law intensifies

October 13th, 2017 The doctor who was arrested earlier in the week for performing an abortion was released on Thursday, while authorities said they are waiting for the opinion of the attorney-general on whether to file the case in court. The doctor and the woman who had the abortion were arrested on Monday after her partner, who didn’t know she was...
Woman who had illegal abortion released (Updated) Cyprus

Woman who had illegal abortion released (Updated)

October 12th, 2017 Following a public outcry, police on Thursday released a woman who had been placed in custody after she had an abortion. The doctor who performed the procedure, who was also remanded in custody for five days together with the woman, was expected to be released later on Thursday. Police got involved when the woman’s partner, who...
Outcry over woman arrested for having an abortion Cyprus

Outcry over woman arrested for having an abortion

October 12th, 2017 There was outrage on Wednesday over parliament’s failure to amend abortion legislation after police in Nicosia detained a woman who had an abortion and the doctor at a private clinic who carried out the procedure. The two appeared before a court on Tuesday which remanded them in custody for five days. She had been eight weeks...
Three jailed in north for performing abortions Cyprus

Three jailed in north for performing abortions

March 29th, 2017 Two doctors and a nurse were jailed in the north on Tuesday over illegal abortions that took place in 2015. Fahri Karagözlü, the doctor who performed the abortions, was sentenced to five years in prison, anaesthetist Rasiha Serdaroğlu got four, and nurse and midwife Ayşegül İşbilen was jailed for two years. Owners of the...
Woman jailed in the north for abortion three years ago Cyprus

Woman jailed in the north for abortion three years ago

March 7th, 2017 A 27-year-old woman was jailed for nine months in the north because she had an abortion in Kyrenia three years ago, reports said on Tuesday. The woman was accused of having an abortion in the 19th week of gestation at a private clinic in March 2014. The foetus was among seven found buried outside Kyrenia in February 2016. Genetic...
Poland's parliament rejects plans for near-total abortion ban World

Poland's parliament rejects plans for near-total abortion ban

October 6th, 2016 Following protests by tens of thousands of women, Polish lawmakers on Thursday rejected plans for a near-total ban on abortion, in a hastily arranged vote that marks the first major domestic setback for the conservative government. The ruling Law and Justice party (PIS) unexpectedly withdrew its support for draft proposals drawn up by...
US judge permanently blocks Florida law to end abortion funding World

US judge permanently blocks Florida law to end abortion funding

August 19th, 2016 A federal judge on Thursday permanently blocked parts of a Florida law that aimed to cut off state funding for preventive health services at clinics that also provide abortions. US District Judge Robert Hinkle had issued a preliminary order in June after state Planned Parenthood affiliates challenged provisions as unconstitutional....
UN panel: Irish woman unfairly forced to seek abortion abroad World

UN panel: Irish woman unfairly forced to seek abortion abroad

June 9th, 2016 An Irish woman forced to choose between carrying her baby with a fatal congenital defect to term and going abroad for an abortion had her rights violated and deserves compensation, a United Nations panel said on Thursday. Abortion laws in majority Roman Catholic Ireland are among the most restrictive in the world: a complete ban on...
Our View: Passing new law on abortion will effectively change nothing Opinion

Our View: Passing new law on abortion will effectively change nothing

March 25th, 2016 LAST SUNDAY, a message from the Archbishop, in which he said the Church would oppose any attempts by the legislature to legalise abortion, was read in all the churches. The Church considered abortion murder and attacked the state services that had prepared the bill “without the necessary religious sensitivity and regard for the...
Rift in ruling DISY over abortion debate featured

Rift in ruling DISY over abortion debate

March 23rd, 2016 DISY MP Rikkos Mappourides walked out of the House Legal Affairs committee in protest on Wednesday after its chairman, his party colleague Sotiris Sampson, refused to schedule the discussion of the bill on abortions. The bill aims to give women the right to terminate pregnancy at under 12 weeks without having to give explanations, or...
Church says it will actively oppose abortion bill Cyprus

Church says it will actively oppose abortion bill

March 20th, 2016 The Cyprus Church on Sunday said it would actively oppose attempts by the House, to allow abortion under certain conditions. In a circular written by the Holy Synod, which was read out in churches islandwide on Sunday, the Church said it considers abortion to be murder. "For the Church no solution can be considered moral and...
Shock arrests in embryo find Cyprus

Shock arrests in embryo find

February 27th, 2016 By Annette Chrysostomou and Aydin Calik TURKISH Cypriots are shocked from the news that the remains of five embryos older than six months were discovered in the Kyrenia area on Friday, after police in the north had been tipped off about illegal abortions and arrested eight people. The remains were discovered in the area between...
House to begin discussion on legalising abortion Cyprus

House to begin discussion on legalising abortion

February 9th, 2015 By Evie Andreou A bill aiming to legalise abortions has been prepared and is to come under discussion at House committee level. The proposal aims to give women the right to terminate pregnancy at under 12 weeks without having to give explanations, or without having to present a medical condition that would prevent them carrying to...
Low score for Cyprus on Euro health index Cyprus

Low score for Cyprus on Euro health index

January 28th, 2015 By Jean Christou The high number of Caesarian births, the absence of legalised abortion and a lack of knowledge on the use of antibiotics were among the factors keeping Cyprus on the lower end of the Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI), a new report said on Tuesday. Cyprus was placed 25th out of 36 countries around Europe for 2014...
Spanish Parliament to press on with restrictive abortion bill World

Spanish Parliament to press on with restrictive abortion bill

February 12th, 2014 Spain's Socialists failed on Tuesday to block an unpopular draft law restricting women's access to abortions, which has sparked large protests across the country and caused rare rifts in the conservative People's Party (PP) that sponsored the bill. In an unusual secret ballot, which gave its members a chance to go against the...
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