Latest items for ABO-PRACTICE-1
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:35 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Donald Tusk’s centrist governing party has so far not garnered enough support in parliament to push through its pre-election pledge to ease these laws" (para 3). "A handful of anti-abortion activists were also present outside the building, reciting Catholic prayers" (para 6). "In August, the prime minister conceded there was 'simply no majority' to deliver on his party’s pledge to allow abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy in the current parliamentary term. One of his senior lawmakers announced last month that work on relaxing the rules, some of Europe’s strictest, would resume only after the presidential election scheduled for May. Four bills to loosen the abortion law had been...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Donald Tusk’s centrist governing party has so far not garnered enough support in parliament to push through its pre-election pledge to ease these laws" (para 3). "A handful of anti-abortion activists were also present outside the building, reciting Catholic prayers" (para 6). "In August, the prime minister conceded there was 'simply no majority' to deliver on his party’s pledge to allow abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy in the current parliamentary term. One of his senior lawmakers announced last month that work on relaxing the rules, some of Europe’s strictest, would resume only after the presidential election scheduled for May. Four bills to loosen the abortion law had been...more
Feb. 20, 2025, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Olayemi is one of about 20 women in the Ota community – chemists, nurses and tailors – who distribute pills for pregnancy termination in this rural part of the southwestern state. They share personal experiences of unsafe, painful or life-threatening abortions and a willingness to help other women. 'The pain I went through, I don’t wish on my worst enemy,' recalls Alike*, 43, one of the network leaders, who, after 22 years of working as a teacher, resigned last year to concentrate on community organising and advocacy around safe abortion. 'When I heard that there are drugs to induce abortion, that women can take in their own houses with the...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Olayemi is one of about 20 women in the Ota community – chemists, nurses and tailors – who distribute pills for pregnancy termination in this rural part of the southwestern state. They share personal experiences of unsafe, painful or life-threatening abortions and a willingness to help other women. 'The pain I went through, I don’t wish on my worst enemy,' recalls Alike*, 43, one of the network leaders, who, after 22 years of working as a teacher, resigned last year to concentrate on community organising and advocacy around safe abortion. 'When I heard that there are drugs to induce abortion, that women can take in their own houses with the...more
Feb. 13, 2025, 10:47 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Abortion is legal in Italy during the first 90 days of pregnancy for health, economic, social, or personal reasons. However, burdensome requirements as well as extensive use of 'conscientious objection' by medical personnel function to deny care to women and girls, and leave them scrambling to find services within the legal time frame" (1). "Activists and doctors in Italy told Human Rights Watch that delays in testing and diagnosis during pregnancy mean women are not always aware of fetal anomalies during the first trimester, and some anomalies cannot be identified until later in pregnancy. In addition, few doctors in Italy are willing to perform abortions after the 90-day limit. Most...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Abortion is legal in Italy during the first 90 days of pregnancy for health, economic, social, or personal reasons. However, burdensome requirements as well as extensive use of 'conscientious objection' by medical personnel function to deny care to women and girls, and leave them scrambling to find services within the legal time frame" (1). "Activists and doctors in Italy told Human Rights Watch that delays in testing and diagnosis during pregnancy mean women are not always aware of fetal anomalies during the first trimester, and some anomalies cannot be identified until later in pregnancy. In addition, few doctors in Italy are willing to perform abortions after the 90-day limit. Most...more
Feb. 12, 2025, 7:23 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"She [Lada Shamardina, a Russian journalist for the independent medical publication Medivestnik] continues to cover Russia's attempts to prompt a baby boom, which in addition to incentives includes curbing access to abortions" (par. 12).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"She [Lada Shamardina, a Russian journalist for the independent medical publication Medivestnik] continues to cover Russia's attempts to prompt a baby boom, which in addition to incentives includes curbing access to abortions" (par. 12).
Feb. 6, 2025, 9:50 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Despite its last-minute scheduling, the meeting at a bookstore in Russia’s westernmost city of Kaliningrad still drew about 60 people, with many outraged by a lawmaker’s efforts to ban abortions in local private clinics. The weeknight turnout surprised and heartened Dasha Yakovleva, one of the organizers, amid recent crackdowns on political activism under President Vladimir Putin. 'Right now, there is no room for political action in Russia. The only place left is our kitchens,' Yakovleva, co-founder of the Feminitive Community women’s group, told The Associated Press. 'And here, it was a public place, well-known in Kaliningrad, and everyone spoke out openly about how they see this measure, why they think...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Despite its last-minute scheduling, the meeting at a bookstore in Russia’s westernmost city of Kaliningrad still drew about 60 people, with many outraged by a lawmaker’s efforts to ban abortions in local private clinics. The weeknight turnout surprised and heartened Dasha Yakovleva, one of the organizers, amid recent crackdowns on political activism under President Vladimir Putin. 'Right now, there is no room for political action in Russia. The only place left is our kitchens,' Yakovleva, co-founder of the Feminitive Community women’s group, told The Associated Press. 'And here, it was a public place, well-known in Kaliningrad, and everyone spoke out openly about how they see this measure, why they think...more
Feb. 5, 2025, 7:18 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Although abortion has been legal in Italy since 1978, accessing the procedure is extremely difficult owing to the high number of gynaecologists who are moral objectors. Italy’s far-right government, which came to power last October, is against abortion, although the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said the law would not be changed" (para 15).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Although abortion has been legal in Italy since 1978, accessing the procedure is extremely difficult owing to the high number of gynaecologists who are moral objectors. Italy’s far-right government, which came to power last October, is against abortion, although the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said the law would not be changed" (para 15).
Feb. 5, 2025, 7:13 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Emmanuel Macron has promised to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French constitution by next year, after restrictions in other countries propelled France on a path towards unconditionally guaranteeing abortion rights. The French president said on Sunday that his government would submit a draft text to France’s highest administrative court over the coming week, with the aim of making abortion rights constitutional by the end of the year. 'In 2024, the right of women to choose abortion will become irreversible,' he wrote on social media. The announcement follows a promise made by Macron on 8 March, International Women’s Day, when he tweeted in response to the overturning...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Emmanuel Macron has promised to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French constitution by next year, after restrictions in other countries propelled France on a path towards unconditionally guaranteeing abortion rights. The French president said on Sunday that his government would submit a draft text to France’s highest administrative court over the coming week, with the aim of making abortion rights constitutional by the end of the year. 'In 2024, the right of women to choose abortion will become irreversible,' he wrote on social media. The announcement follows a promise made by Macron on 8 March, International Women’s Day, when he tweeted in response to the overturning...more
Feb. 5, 2025, 6:51 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"In Poland, where there has been a near-total ban on legal abortion since 2020, there were concerns raised earlier this year in response to a state-funded study which reported forensic tests could be used to detect abortion pills in foetal and maternal samples. A recent Human Rights Watch report found there were 'sweeping and speculative' investigations of women in Poland – including those who had a legal medical abortion. The practice, it said, 'can only be described as a witch hunt'. Last month, the New York Times claimed tests to detect abortion drugs were being used in Poland 'in rare cases' to investigate the outcomes of pregnancies, but that 'these...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"In Poland, where there has been a near-total ban on legal abortion since 2020, there were concerns raised earlier this year in response to a state-funded study which reported forensic tests could be used to detect abortion pills in foetal and maternal samples. A recent Human Rights Watch report found there were 'sweeping and speculative' investigations of women in Poland – including those who had a legal medical abortion. The practice, it said, 'can only be described as a witch hunt'. Last month, the New York Times claimed tests to detect abortion drugs were being used in Poland 'in rare cases' to investigate the outcomes of pregnancies, but that 'these...more
Feb. 5, 2025, 6:51 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Last month, the New York Times claimed tests to detect abortion drugs were being used in Poland 'in rare cases' to investigate the outcomes of pregnancies, but that 'these tests are not yet known to be in use anywhere else in the world', including the US. A spokesperson for AidAccess, which provides abortion pills by post to all 50 US states, said they were 'not aware of toxicological tests for mifepristone and misoprostol being used in the US by police in any way yet' but they had heard of similar tests being used in Poland" (para 14-15). "After Roe v Wade was overturned in the US last summer, removing the...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Last month, the New York Times claimed tests to detect abortion drugs were being used in Poland 'in rare cases' to investigate the outcomes of pregnancies, but that 'these tests are not yet known to be in use anywhere else in the world', including the US. A spokesperson for AidAccess, which provides abortion pills by post to all 50 US states, said they were 'not aware of toxicological tests for mifepristone and misoprostol being used in the US by police in any way yet' but they had heard of similar tests being used in Poland" (para 14-15). "After Roe v Wade was overturned in the US last summer, removing the...more
Feb. 5, 2025, 6:50 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"British police are testing women for abortion drugs and requesting data from menstrual tracking apps after unexplained pregnancy losses. Tortoise has seen forensic reports in which police have requested a mass spectrometry test, which can detect the presence of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in the urine, blood and placenta of women under investigation. Other reports include requests for 'data related to menstruation tracking applications' as part of the police’s investigations. It’s understood these requests have been taking place for at least the past three years. Dr Jonathan Lord, co-chair of the British Society of Abortion Care Providers and an NHS consultant gynaecologist, called searching women’s phones for menstrual...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"British police are testing women for abortion drugs and requesting data from menstrual tracking apps after unexplained pregnancy losses. Tortoise has seen forensic reports in which police have requested a mass spectrometry test, which can detect the presence of the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in the urine, blood and placenta of women under investigation. Other reports include requests for 'data related to menstruation tracking applications' as part of the police’s investigations. It’s understood these requests have been taking place for at least the past three years. Dr Jonathan Lord, co-chair of the British Society of Abortion Care Providers and an NHS consultant gynaecologist, called searching women’s phones for menstrual...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 5:31 p.m.
Countries: Hungary
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Other barriers such as waiting periods and mandatory 'counseling' appointments prevent effective access and continue to stigmatize abortion. In October 2020, Hungary co-sponsored the anti-abortion Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family with the United States and 33 other countries. Although abortion remains legal at the time of writing, the 2011 constitutional changes as well as the government’s decision to co-sponsor the Geneva Consensus Declaration—a document with no legal weight but which is focused on states committing to promote an anti-abortion approach to reproductive health—raises concerns among activists that more barriers are forthcoming" (6).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Other barriers such as waiting periods and mandatory 'counseling' appointments prevent effective access and continue to stigmatize abortion. In October 2020, Hungary co-sponsored the anti-abortion Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family with the United States and 33 other countries. Although abortion remains legal at the time of writing, the 2011 constitutional changes as well as the government’s decision to co-sponsor the Geneva Consensus Declaration—a document with no legal weight but which is focused on states committing to promote an anti-abortion approach to reproductive health—raises concerns among activists that more barriers are forthcoming" (6).
Feb. 3, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1). "Bintu Ibrahim, now in her late 20s, recounted how soldiers gave her two injections without her consent after picking her up with a group of other women who fled the insurgents about three years ago. When the blood came, and the terrifying pain, she knew she and the others had been given abortions....more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1). "Bintu Ibrahim, now in her late 20s, recounted how soldiers gave her two injections without her consent after picking her up with a group of other women who fled the insurgents about three years ago. When the blood came, and the terrifying pain, she knew she and the others had been given abortions....more
Feb. 3, 2025, 2:10 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1). "Bintu Ibrahim, now in her late 20s, recounted how soldiers gave her two injections without her consent after picking her up with a group of other women who fled the insurgents about three years ago. When the blood came, and the terrifying pain, she knew she and the others had been given abortions....more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1). "Bintu Ibrahim, now in her late 20s, recounted how soldiers gave her two injections without her consent after picking her up with a group of other women who fled the insurgents about three years ago. When the blood came, and the terrifying pain, she knew she and the others had been given abortions....more
Jan. 29, 2025, 8:02 p.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Argentina has a recent history of strong feminist mobilisation. In 2015, a wave of marches against femicide sparked similar protests in Peru, Uruguay, Italy and Germany, while the country’s Green Wave movement was instrumental in securing safe abortion rights in 2020" (10). "[Milei] has cut back programmes providing support for victims of gender violence, and at Davos attacked the 'bloody and murderous abortion agenda'" (para 12).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Argentina has a recent history of strong feminist mobilisation. In 2015, a wave of marches against femicide sparked similar protests in Peru, Uruguay, Italy and Germany, while the country’s Green Wave movement was instrumental in securing safe abortion rights in 2020" (10). "[Milei] has cut back programmes providing support for victims of gender violence, and at Davos attacked the 'bloody and murderous abortion agenda'" (para 12).
Jan. 29, 2025, 7:35 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"[I]t remains deeply concerned at... (b) Threats to repeal the technical guidelines for the therapeutic termination of pregnancy and the lack of training of medical personnel on the guidelines" (9).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"[I]t remains deeply concerned at... (b) Threats to repeal the technical guidelines for the therapeutic termination of pregnancy and the lack of training of medical personnel on the guidelines" (9).
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:59 p.m.
Countries: Serbia
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1, NGOFW-DATA-1
“Tanja Ignjatovic from the Belgrade-based Autonomous Women’s Center in Serbia, another country that was once part of Yugoslavia, noted that women felt abortion rights ‘belonged to us and could not be brought into question.’ But, she added, ‘we have seen that regression is possible, too’” (para 6).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1, NGOFW-DATA-1
“Tanja Ignjatovic from the Belgrade-based Autonomous Women’s Center in Serbia, another country that was once part of Yugoslavia, noted that women felt abortion rights ‘belonged to us and could not be brought into question.’ But, she added, ‘we have seen that regression is possible, too’” (para 6).
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:49 p.m.
Countries: Croatia
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled divisions in the European Union nation of about 3.9 million people where abortion remains legal but access to the procedure is often denied, sending many women to neighboring Slovenia to end a pregnancy" (para 1-2). "'I find it incredible that we are even discussing this in the year 2024,' said Ana Sunic, a mother of two from Zagreb, Croatia's capital. 'It is every person’s basic right to decide what they will do...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled divisions in the European Union nation of about 3.9 million people where abortion remains legal but access to the procedure is often denied, sending many women to neighboring Slovenia to end a pregnancy" (para 1-2). "'I find it incredible that we are even discussing this in the year 2024,' said Ana Sunic, a mother of two from Zagreb, Croatia's capital. 'It is every person’s basic right to decide what they will do...more
Jan. 28, 2025, 7:59 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"It should be noted that communication strategies have been developed that focus on the need for therapeutic abortion to save women’s health or lives, and on raising awareness to avoid stigmatizing those who undergo the procedure" (18).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"It should be noted that communication strategies have been developed that focus on the need for therapeutic abortion to save women’s health or lives, and on raising awareness to avoid stigmatizing those who undergo the procedure" (18).
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"'No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker, will be able to be punished for abortion,' the Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, known by its Spanish initials GIRE, said in a statement" (par. 3). "Celebration of the ruling soon spilled out onto social media. 'Today is a day of victory and justice for Mexican women!' Mexico’s National Institute for Women wrote in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The government organization called the decision a 'big step' toward gender equality. Sen. Olga Sánchez Cordero, a former Supreme Court justice, applauded the ruling, saying on X that it represented an advance toward 'a more...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"'No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker, will be able to be punished for abortion,' the Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, known by its Spanish initials GIRE, said in a statement" (par. 3). "Celebration of the ruling soon spilled out onto social media. 'Today is a day of victory and justice for Mexican women!' Mexico’s National Institute for Women wrote in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The government organization called the decision a 'big step' toward gender equality. Sen. Olga Sánchez Cordero, a former Supreme Court justice, applauded the ruling, saying on X that it represented an advance toward 'a more...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1, ABO-LAW-1
"The U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that provided a right to abortion nationwide. Since then, most states led by conservative lawmakers and governors have adopted bans or tighter restrictions" (par. 24). "Currently, abortion is banned throughout pregnancy — with limited exceptions — in 15 American states. Bans in two more states forbid abortion after cardiac activity can be detected, generally around six weeks into pregnancy and often before women know they are pregnant. Judges have put enforcement of restrictions on hold in at least four additional states" (par. 26).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1, ABO-LAW-1
"The U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that provided a right to abortion nationwide. Since then, most states led by conservative lawmakers and governors have adopted bans or tighter restrictions" (par. 24). "Currently, abortion is banned throughout pregnancy — with limited exceptions — in 15 American states. Bans in two more states forbid abortion after cardiac activity can be detected, generally around six weeks into pregnancy and often before women know they are pregnant. Judges have put enforcement of restrictions on hold in at least four additional states" (par. 26).
Jan. 16, 2025, 11:49 a.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Camila had a miscarriage and was then charged and convicted of self-abortion based on no evidence other than her repeated statements that she did not wish to carry on with the pregnancy. 'She was re-victimised in the health service by denying her an abortion,' said Rossina Guerrero, the programme director at Promsex, the organisation that brought Camila’s case before the UN committee in 2020. It claimed that her rights under the UN convention on the rights of the child had been violated. 'Moreover, nurses went with police officers to [Camila’s] house to oblige her to go to a checkup when she had suffered a miscarriage.' 'The same prosecutor who was...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Camila had a miscarriage and was then charged and convicted of self-abortion based on no evidence other than her repeated statements that she did not wish to carry on with the pregnancy. 'She was re-victimised in the health service by denying her an abortion,' said Rossina Guerrero, the programme director at Promsex, the organisation that brought Camila’s case before the UN committee in 2020. It claimed that her rights under the UN convention on the rights of the child had been violated. 'Moreover, nurses went with police officers to [Camila’s] house to oblige her to go to a checkup when she had suffered a miscarriage.' 'The same prosecutor who was...more
Jan. 15, 2025, 9:58 p.m.
Countries: Benin
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"When abortion is illegal, says Tognifode, women resort to 'unimaginable and inhumane methods' that are 'completely mad, medically speaking'. They may ingest pills or bleach, or insert sharp objects into their vaginas, sometimes causing intestinal damage" (para 5). "Progress is slow, however, and women’s rights activists and doctors are convinced that unsafe abortions are still being practised across Benin. 'Not everyone knows about this law,' says Dr Serge Kitihoun, director of medical services at the country’s branch of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. 'It is written in French; not everyone speaks French. We must translate the law into the national languages so everyone can be informed. Those who don’t yet...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"When abortion is illegal, says Tognifode, women resort to 'unimaginable and inhumane methods' that are 'completely mad, medically speaking'. They may ingest pills or bleach, or insert sharp objects into their vaginas, sometimes causing intestinal damage" (para 5). "Progress is slow, however, and women’s rights activists and doctors are convinced that unsafe abortions are still being practised across Benin. 'Not everyone knows about this law,' says Dr Serge Kitihoun, director of medical services at the country’s branch of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. 'It is written in French; not everyone speaks French. We must translate the law into the national languages so everyone can be informed. Those who don’t yet...more
Jan. 15, 2025, 9:50 p.m.
Countries: Malawi
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Nyekanyeka, 45, coordinates the Religious Leaders Network for Choice, a group formed in 2019 with about 15 members and which now numbers more than 1,000 Christians and Muslims. They first came together after attending training sessions run by the Coalition for Prevention of Unsafe Abortion, which educates the public on unsafe abortion and builds grassroots momentum for law reform. The network conducts research into the intersection of religion and sexual and reproductive health and rights; and advocates for access to safe abortion to policymakers, lawyers, judges, the media and MPs" (para 4-5). "The reality of women dying from unsafe abortions has pushed the network and civil society organisations to advocate...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Nyekanyeka, 45, coordinates the Religious Leaders Network for Choice, a group formed in 2019 with about 15 members and which now numbers more than 1,000 Christians and Muslims. They first came together after attending training sessions run by the Coalition for Prevention of Unsafe Abortion, which educates the public on unsafe abortion and builds grassroots momentum for law reform. The network conducts research into the intersection of religion and sexual and reproductive health and rights; and advocates for access to safe abortion to policymakers, lawyers, judges, the media and MPs" (para 4-5). "The reality of women dying from unsafe abortions has pushed the network and civil society organisations to advocate...more
Jan. 15, 2025, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"New restrictions and the obstacles they create — including travel logistics and expenses, long wait times at some clinics and confusion or fear about laws — seem to have prevented even more women than expected from obtaining legal abortions" (par. 2). "They increased by an average of 2,100 a month in states where abortion remained legal, suggesting that some women traveled across state lines" (par. 4). "And one of the pills in the two-pill regimen for medication abortion, a method that now represents the majority of legal abortions in America, may be curtailed if a federal court ruling in Texas issued Friday is upheld" (par. 5). "'For our patients, it’s...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"New restrictions and the obstacles they create — including travel logistics and expenses, long wait times at some clinics and confusion or fear about laws — seem to have prevented even more women than expected from obtaining legal abortions" (par. 2). "They increased by an average of 2,100 a month in states where abortion remained legal, suggesting that some women traveled across state lines" (par. 4). "And one of the pills in the two-pill regimen for medication abortion, a method that now represents the majority of legal abortions in America, may be curtailed if a federal court ruling in Texas issued Friday is upheld" (par. 5). "'For our patients, it’s...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 1:52 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Zheng's former husband, Heng Zhang, one of China's most famous reality TV producers, says she wanted to abort the children following their split while their two surrogate mothers were still expecting. He also says the children were physically abused while in Zheng's care" (par. 3). "However, two months before the births of their children, the couple had broken up. Zhang later revealed that his ex-partner wanted to abort their kids despite his offer to raise them as a single father" (par. 6). "The clinic also confirmed Zheng's request to terminate the pregnancies at the seventh-month mark, which was denied" (par. 11).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Zheng's former husband, Heng Zhang, one of China's most famous reality TV producers, says she wanted to abort the children following their split while their two surrogate mothers were still expecting. He also says the children were physically abused while in Zheng's care" (par. 3). "However, two months before the births of their children, the couple had broken up. Zhang later revealed that his ex-partner wanted to abort their kids despite his offer to raise them as a single father" (par. 6). "The clinic also confirmed Zheng's request to terminate the pregnancies at the seventh-month mark, which was denied" (par. 11).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:53 a.m.
Countries: Chile
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Access to free and safe abortions has driven the Chilean feminist movement since the return democracy following Gen Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990). However, it is unlikely to become reality over the course of the current government with congress finely balanced between the ruling coalitions and opposition. Abortion has been decriminalised in Chile since 2017 if the pregnancy was the result of rape, if the mother’s life is at risk, or if the foetus is inviable" (para 24-26).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Access to free and safe abortions has driven the Chilean feminist movement since the return democracy following Gen Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990). However, it is unlikely to become reality over the course of the current government with congress finely balanced between the ruling coalitions and opposition. Abortion has been decriminalised in Chile since 2017 if the pregnancy was the result of rape, if the mother’s life is at risk, or if the foetus is inviable" (para 24-26).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:36 a.m.
Countries: El Salvador
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"El Salvador has one of the most draconian abortion bans in the Americas, which critics say extends to women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths. Many women have been sentenced to decades in prison on charges of killing their children. Most of the country's population is either Roman Catholic or Evangelical - Christians who believe that life begins at conception" (para 10-11).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"El Salvador has one of the most draconian abortion bans in the Americas, which critics say extends to women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths. Many women have been sentenced to decades in prison on charges of killing their children. Most of the country's population is either Roman Catholic or Evangelical - Christians who believe that life begins at conception" (para 10-11).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:25 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, 'we could never have imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the constitution,' Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World) association, told AFP. Monteil was the youngest signatory to 'Manifesto of the 343', a 1971 French petition signed by 343 women who admitted to having illegally ended a pregnancy, along with up to 800,000 of their compatriots each year" (para 7-8). "Most members of the French public support the move to give the right extra protection. A November 2022 survey by French polling group IFOP found that 86 percent of French people supported...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, 'we could never have imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the constitution,' Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World) association, told AFP. Monteil was the youngest signatory to 'Manifesto of the 343', a 1971 French petition signed by 343 women who admitted to having illegally ended a pregnancy, along with up to 800,000 of their compatriots each year" (para 7-8). "Most members of the French public support the move to give the right extra protection. A November 2022 survey by French polling group IFOP found that 86 percent of French people supported...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:06 a.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"On 22 October, the country heads to the polls in a highly contested election, in which the frontrunner Javier Milei has described abortion as murder. In a recent interview, Milei, a 52-year-old far-right candidate and political outsider, reportedly said that those who support abortion rights are 'brainwashed by a homicidal policy'. He vowed to launch a referendum to overturn the abortion law if he takes the presidency. 'Life starts at the moment of fertilisation. Three weeks after that, your mother decides to kill you because you are not alive yet. How come?' Milei said in August" (para 7-9). "Despite such progress, abortion remains a fraught and divisive issue in the...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"On 22 October, the country heads to the polls in a highly contested election, in which the frontrunner Javier Milei has described abortion as murder. In a recent interview, Milei, a 52-year-old far-right candidate and political outsider, reportedly said that those who support abortion rights are 'brainwashed by a homicidal policy'. He vowed to launch a referendum to overturn the abortion law if he takes the presidency. 'Life starts at the moment of fertilisation. Three weeks after that, your mother decides to kill you because you are not alive yet. How come?' Milei said in August" (para 7-9). "Despite such progress, abortion remains a fraught and divisive issue in the...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:36 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Across Latin America, countries have made moves to lift abortion restrictions in recent years, a trend often referred to as a 'green wave,' in reference to the green bandanas carried by women protesting for abortion rights in the region" (para 20). "In the southern state of Guerrero, Marina Reyna, director of the Guerrero Association Against Violence toward Women, cautioned that challenges would persist. Her state decriminalized abortion last year, but there are 22 open investigations against women accused of ending their pregnancies. 'There is still a lot of resistance,' she said" (para 29-30).
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Across Latin America, countries have made moves to lift abortion restrictions in recent years, a trend often referred to as a 'green wave,' in reference to the green bandanas carried by women protesting for abortion rights in the region" (para 20). "In the southern state of Guerrero, Marina Reyna, director of the Guerrero Association Against Violence toward Women, cautioned that challenges would persist. Her state decriminalized abortion last year, but there are 22 open investigations against women accused of ending their pregnancies. 'There is still a lot of resistance,' she said" (para 29-30).