The mujeres back home are facing serious threats to their reproductive health and rights. Here are some things about abortion law in Latin America that you probably didn't know.
Abortion has long been a controversial subject in U.S. society. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that women had a right to have an abortion in the landmark Roe v. Wade case. Nevertheless, individual States were free to enact laws that restricted the practice and availability of ...
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Medication abortion, also known as “the abortion pill,” can be performed in the early weeks of pregnancy depending on the laws of the state or country. Medication abortion involves orally ingesting a combination of two medications – misoprostol and mifepristone – to terminate the pregnancy. It...
* Per the book The Brethren Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart considered abortion to be “one reasonable solution to population control” when he ruled with the majority in Roe v. Wade. That ruling struck down the laws of 30 st...
While in Congress, Chisholm wasnamedthe honorary co-president of National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) in 1969 andbecame co-founderthe National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1970. “Here's a woman who fought for reproductive rights for her community at a time when th...
U.S. laws for treating miscarriages:Some U.S. states have murky laws about whether or not doctors can treat a miscarriage. In Texas, the new laws make medical staff uncertain whether they are allowed to offer miscarriage treatment since it’s very similar to treatment for abortion(3). This...
Get the Facts:While there have been concerns about the impact of strict abortion laws on IVF (in vitro fertilization), particularly in states where personhood laws could define embryos as legal persons, direct cases of couples being "cut off" from IVF treatments due to recent laws are less do...
Abortion—the mere mention of this word stirs passions and controversy, but what are the concrete facts of this issue? What do the scientific disciplines tell us? Where do prominent politicians and organizations stand on this matter? More importantly, what are their records? Just Facts has amasse...
Abortion, the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus before it has reached the stage of viability (in human beings, usually about the 20th week of gestation). An abortion may occur spontaneously, in which case it is also called a miscarriage, or it may be