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Campaigners say growing anti-abortion activism, legal challenges and new forms of scrutiny are making reproductive healthcare harder to access

Just two years after Missouri voters approved an amendment enshrining the right to abortion care in the state constitution, abortion is on the ballot again.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged South Korea t...

<p>Alois uses the first veto of his reign to quash parliament-approved bill backed by a national petition</p><p>The hereditary prince of Liechtenstein has used his veto for the first time in his reign to quash a bill aimed at bringing abortion laws in line with much of Europe.</p><p>The legislation was approved by Liechtenstein’s parliament <a href="https://

Demonstrators gathered on the sixth anniversary of a near-total abortion ban imposed by Poland's highest court.

Thousands rallied across Poland to demand abortion rights six years after a landmark court ruling tightened restrictions. The country has one of the strictest abortion rules in all of Europe.

A non-profit group has protested in Abeokuta, urging Governor Dapo Abiodun to reject the Ogun State Safe Termination of Pregnancy Law passed by the assembl Read More: https://punchng.com/group-protests-ogun-abortion-bill-urges-abiodun-to-reject-it/

This November, voters in Virginia, Nevada, Missouri and Idaho will decide on the future of reproductive rights. In deeply red Idaho, a citizen-led initiative faces an uphill battle to restore some abortion rights. Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports on whether the fallout from the overturning of Roe v. Wade and frustration over the current law will be

<p>Measures would remove some penalties for those helping women access abortion but are ‘small-scale step’, say campaigners</p><p>Poland’s lower house of parliament has approved two bills aimed at loosening a near-total ban on abortions, in what campaigners have described as a “small-scale step” ahead of protests calling on the government to fulfil its promi

The bill was backed by a quarter of registered voters in the Alpine principality, where performing abortions is illegal with limited exceptions.

President Karol Nawrocki is aligned with the party that triggered mass protests with its abortion clampdown five years ago, and could veto the government's bills.