USA – Multiple Stories
… who died Friday at the age of 93, was instrumental in keeping abortion legal at the federal level during her tenure. In 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled on Roe …
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VIET NAM – Vietnam struggles with high abortion rates due to sex selection: “people have to rely on their sons”
… 2050 if the level of sex imbalance at birth remains as high as it is now. Data from the General Statistics Office, released in 2022, puts the sex ratio at …
AUSTRALIA – Long overdue rule changes for prescribing medical abortion pills came into effect in August 2023
… age in Australia, so GPs have to get it right because we are the workforce to deliver this kind of care.” SOURCE: RACGP News (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners), …
JAMAICA – Jamaicans for Justice push for abortion to be legalised
… allowed to legally have an abortion, she said. SOURCE: Radio Jamaica News Online, 2 December 2023 + Podcast by Mickel Jackson, Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice ; PHOTO | …
AFRICA – Livingstone Safe Abortion Care Charter
… abortion, a time-sensitive and essential health care. Signatories included OB-GYN societies from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. FULL REPORT: https://www.figo.org/news/international-womens-day-2023-launch-livingstone-safe-abortion-care-charter-obgyns-africa | …
LIBERIA – Abortion care is healthcare
On 7 September 2023, in the ICWRSA newsletter, we summarised a 4 September report from the Liberian Observer that a revised version of the Public Healthcare Law had been …
PARAGUAY – Childhood cut short: Three stories of adolescent pregnancy from Paraguay
… heart failure. Both Noelia and the fetus died. Isabel Isabel was 13 years old when she became pregnant. Although the man who lived with her was 40 years old, nobody …
MEXICO – GIRE (Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida)
… opportunity to attend the event “Abortion and Justice”, organised by El Colegio de México. As GIRE’s executive director, I participated with Marta Lamas, GIRE’s founder and currently a researcher at …
POLAND – Two abortion law reform bills from The Left ; Death of pregnant woman that sparked protests in 2021 was unrelated to abortion law, say prosecutors, who charged the doctors with medical malpractice instead ; Gynaecologist charged with helping five patients obtain abortions
… end the criminalisation of those who help women obtain abortions. However, when this article was written, it appeared unlikely that the bills will enjoy support from more conservative elements of …
CANADA – Allow surgical abortions in New Brunswick clinics, federal report says
A highly anticipated research study on surgical abortion access in New Brunswick has recommended the province allow doctors to perform the procedure in community clinics as a way of eliminating …
HOSTILITIES ON THE FRONTLINES – Hostilities faced by people on the frontlines of sexual and reproductive health and rights: a scoping review
… about how hostilities against frontline SRHR workers manifest, against whom, at whose hands and in which contexts. It is based on review of six sources: peer-reviewed and grey literature, news …
NORTHERN IRELAND
… Coleraine, County Londonderry, when they allegedly refused to leave the established safe access zone under new legislation passed the week before. BBC News, by Maria McCann, 4 October 2023 | …
ROMANIA – 28 September in photos
Shared by Daniela Draghici SEE ALSO: Feminism Romania: Manifesto of the Romanian feminist activists for 28 September in the ICWRSA Newsletter III for 28 September, written before the events in …
YOUNG ACTIVISTS FOR ABORTION: ASIA REGIONAL MEETING
… forward-looking aim of strategizing towards developing an Asia regional chapter of YANAA Global. On the first day of the meeting, two panel discussions were organised. The first panel discussion was …
CUBA – Right to abortion in Cuba: safe, free, legal, and under attack
… the Spanish newspaper ABC, written by Camila Acosta, a Cuban mercenary journalist. She cites as her sources well-known “dissidents” living outside the island. For example, Óscar Elías Biscet, a Cuban …
POLAND – Man to face court in Poland for helping partner have an abortion
… provided assistance in terminating a pregnancy,” the spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Kielce, Daniel Prokopowicz, told news website Onet. “This is punishable by up to three years in prison.” …