Abortion rights advocates fear a new conservative majority on the court may be prepared to overturn or alter landmark Roe decisionThe US supreme court is expected to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the most important abortion rights case in decades…
How anti-abortion advocates are pushing local bans, city by small city
Across Ohio, tactics pioneered in Texas are being deployed in disruptive city council meetingsIn May of this year, six city council members in Lebanon, Ohio, a city located just north of Cincinnati, voted on an ordinance that would effectively outlaw a…
US supreme court to hear oral arguments over Texas abortion law
Biden administration and reproductive rights groups have asked court to block a controversial law banning nearly all terminationsThe US supreme court is set to hear oral arguments over whether Texas can continue to allow private citizens to enforce a c…
The legal mind behind America’s most extreme abortion law
Former Texas solicitor general Jonathan F Mitchell’s ‘dangerous’ legal strategy lets legislators pass laws that thwart the judiciaryAt the center of the extreme Texas law that bans nearly all abortion care in the second largest state in the US lies a n…
Texas’ restrictive abortion law temporarily reinstated one day after being blocked
A New Orleans-based appeals court quickly granted the state’s request to set aside a suspension until the case is reviewedA federal appeals court on Friday night allowed Texas to temporarily resume banning most abortions, just one day after clinics acr…
Women’s March targets US supreme court, with abortion on line
Thousands gather in Washington DC and other cities protesting against Texas’s new law which has banned most abortionsThe first Women’s March of the Biden administration was heading straight for the steps of the supreme court on Saturday, part of nation…
Japan urged to abolish third-party consent from abortion law
Restrictions amount to ‘sexual assault’ on women by Japanese state, say rights campaignersWomen’s health campaigners have urged Japan’s government to amend a law that forces married women to seek consent from their husbands before they can have an abo…
China to limit abortions for ‘non-medical purposes’
Government says clampdown is aimed at improving women’s reproductive health, but it comes amid anxiety about the nation’s falling birth rateChina will reduce the number of abortions performed for “non-medical purposes”, the country’s cabinet announced …
Anti-abortion bill modeled after Texas ban introduced in Florida
The bill gives citizens the right to sue anyone who helps someone who seeks an abortion, as in TexasAn anti-abortion bill that would ban abortions after an embryonic heartbeat is detected, about six weeks, and allow citizens to sue doctors who perform …
Woman with Down’s syndrome loses UK abortion law case
Heidi Crowter argued that allowing pregnancy terminations up to birth if the foetus has Down’s syndrome is discriminatoryA woman with Down’s syndrome who took Sajid Javid to court over the UK’s abortion law has lost her case in the high court.Heidi Cro…