AreferendumonabortionlawsinIrelandwillbeheldattheendofMay,PrimeMinisterLeoVaradkarhasannounced.DescribedbyMrVaradkarasa"difficultdecisionfortheIrishpeopletomake
TheprimeministerofIrelandsaidSaturdayhewillcampaignforaliberalizationofthecountry'sstrictabortionlawsinanupcomingreferendumonthedivisiveissue.LeoVaradkarsaidheh
TensofthousandsofpeoplehavemarchedthroughthestreetsofDublintocallforachangetoIreland'sstrictabortionlaws.It'sthefirstbigrallysincetheIrishPrimeMinisterLeoVaradk
ByAPDWriterEaswaranCOLOMBO,September8(APD)--ASriLankangovernmentministeronFridaysaidthatabortionandLesbian,Gay,Bisexual,andTransgender(LGBT)rightswillnotbelegal
Police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have found 19 aborted female foetuses near a hospital.
Warsaw witnessed Monday hundreds of black-clad women campaigning against a series of issues including mainly a project to alter the existing abortion law. They headed for the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) headquarters to present their demands.
The epidemic of Zika virus drove a spike in requests for abortion help in countries that ban or restrict abortions, researchers said Wednesday.
Amie Jo Guinn finds herself pregnant, unexpectedly. Being a single mother who lives in the U.S. state of Missouri, she works nearly 90 hours per week as a bartender to support her two children.
Donald Trump scrambled to clarify his position on abortion Wednesday after he said women who undergo the procedure should face "some form of punishment" should the practice be outlawed.
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"Fatma", a mother of twins with a demanding workload, was distraught to discover she was pregnant again. Her doctor agreed to perform an abortion, she says, only after she promised to pretend the procedure had been a medical emergency.
To protect women from unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions, a stronger regulatory framework is needed to ensure sufficient access to sexual and reproductive health care, an expert has said.
A commission of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved a law on Wednesday, which would make it far more difficult to get an abortion in South America's largest country.
A lambasted claim on national television by an Australian senator last week has effectively overshadowed a key breakthrough in breast cancer research here, after the minister caused widespread outrage in claiming a link between abortion and breast cancer.