Colombia's highest court has decriminalised abortion during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Before the ruling, Colombia allowed abortions only when a woman's life was in danger, a fetus had malformations or a pregnancy resulted from rape.

Colombia's highest court legalises abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy

In a bit of a historic moment, Ecuador's national assembly has now approved regulations that will allow women and girls to get easier access to abortion in cases of rape.

Legislators in Ecuador ease abortion rules

Three women from El Salvador who were sentenced to 30 years in prison have now been freed. The women were sentenced under the nation’s strict anti-abortion laws.

Three women convicted of abortion finally freed in El Salvador

Democrats have less than a month left controlling Virginia before Republicans take over the House of Delegates and the governor’s mansion. With the clock ticking, many in the party want to seize what they see as a fleeting opportunity: protecting abortion rights by codifying them into state law.

Protect abortion rights? Virginia Democrats’ vacation plans get in the way.

Roe v. Wade has had a rough two weeks at the Supreme Court. On Dec. 1, at arguments over its fate in a case from Mississippi, the five most conservative justices showed no interest in doing anything short of overruling it.

With Roe at risk, justices explore a new way to question precedents

The United States Supreme Court on Friday (December 10) has ruled on the Texas abortion law, now allowing the abortion providers to challenge the ban in federal court.

US Supreme Court allows abortion providers to challenge Texas law in federal court

If you want to know why our politics are so awful, check out our recent public debates about abortion. Everybody is sensing where the Supreme Court seems to be heading on Roe v.

Abortion: The voice of the ambivalent majority

Last week’s Supreme Court arguments on a Mississippi abortion law raised the prospect of a return to a time half a century ago — when the procedure was illegal across most of the United States, and women, perilously, tried to end pregnancies on their own or sought back-alley abortions.

What an America without Roe would look like

US abortion rights may soon be consigned to the "ash heap of history," former vice president Mike Pence told activists Tuesday on the eve of a crucial Supreme Court hearing.

In US, Pence and allies eye end to 50 years of abortion rights

After almost three hours of lively arguments, a majority of the justices seemed inclined to allow abortion providers but perhaps not the Biden administration to pursue a challenge to a Texas law that has sharply curtailed abortions in the state.

Supreme court hints it may allow challenge to Texas abortion law

After US President Joe Biden met Pope Francis, the former gave an unusual answer on Friday on being asked whether abortion was discussed in their 90-minute meeting at the Vatican.

After meeting with pope, US President Joe Biden gives bizarre answer on abortion

A fierce debate has started between human rights activists and the Catholic church in Bolivia. The topic is the fate of an 11-year-old girl, who became pregnant after being raped by a family member.

Fierce abortion debate begins as 11-year-old Bolivian girl raped by family member becomes pregnant

The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on November 1 legal challenges to a restrictive abortion law passed in Texas, but meanwhile declined to block the controversial law. President Joe Biden's administration and abortion providers have been asked the court to reverse this Texas law.

US' Supreme Court refuses to block Texas' controversial abortion law

The Supreme Court on Friday once again refused to immediately block a Texas law that banned most abortions after six weeks. But the justices agreed to fast-track their consideration of appeals from the Justice Department and abortion providers in Texas, scheduling arguments for Nov.

Supreme Court again refuses to block Texas abortion law

The Biden administration will ask the Supreme Court to block a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while a challenge to it moves forward, a spokesperson for the Justice Department said Friday.

Justice dept to ask Supreme Court to block Texas’ near-total abortion ban

Health workers have a non-negotiable right to exercise conscientious objection by refusing to participate in an abortion, Pope Francis said on Thursday, calling the procedure "murder".

Pope says health workers' conscientious objection to abortion non-negotiable

A federal judge in US on Wednesday blocked a law that banned most abortions in Texas. The law is part of a conservative drive to deny access to the procedure. The statute, which went into force on September 1, prohibits abortions as soon as a heartbeat is detectable, usually at around six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant.

US judge blocks abortion law in Texas

The Biden administration on Monday reversed a contentious policy set under President Donald Trump that barred organisations that provide abortion referrals from receiving federal family planning money.

Biden officials end ban on abortion referrals at federally funded clinics

Making sure that the government and all other lawmakers know their stand against the ‘inhumane’ and ‘discriminatory’ anti-abortion rules, tens of thousands of people took to streets across the United States.

'Mind your uterus': Protests erupt in US against anti-abortion laws

(Trigger warning: Sexual assault) While a state in the US introduced a pandora's box with strict abortion laws that are being challenged in court by the federal government, less developed countries and even small islands are introducing progressive measures.

Wombs: The political battleground

'Hands off my body': Thousands protests against anti-abortion laws in US

US President Joe Biden's administration urged a federal judge to swiftly block a new law that bans most abortions in Texas, raising concerns about women's curtailed access to care.

Joe Biden's administration urges judge to block Texas anti-abortion law

On Saturday, there will be demonstrations across the country to protest Texas’ crowdsourced abortion ban and the Supreme Court’s refusal to enjoin it. It could be a broad mobilization.

Are we too burned out to defend Roe v. Wade?

On the 'International Safe Abortion Day', women activists in Latin America hit the streets to demand that abortion be legalized. A total of 12 countries witnessed pro-choice demonstrations. Molly Gambhir gets you a report.

Gravitas: Women fight to legalise abortion

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