Infant deaths increased by 7% in the 18 months after the US Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion and were highest among infants with congenital abnormalities, a study has found. Two researchers from the College of Public Health at Ohio State University looked at monthly data ...
However, we argue that safe, comprehensive and legal abortion in the U.S. should not be based on the concept of privacy, but instead should be based on the international human right to health and the rights of women to reproductive information and services. The concept of privacy has not ...
Right to Life of Stark County helps women and families in crisis. Abortion is NOT your only option. We connect you with the pregnancy resources you need to choose life for your baby.
FILE - Participants in the annual anti-abortion rally surround the state house in Augusta, Maine, Jan. 14, 2012. An effort to amend the Maine Constitution to enshrine the right to an abortion is coming up short. The measure fell shy of a two-thirds majority in the Maine House Tuesday...
“For pioneering discussions on women’s reproductive rights in Africa, paving the way for liberalised abortion laws and improved safe abortion access.” Eunice Brookman-Amissah is a Ghanaian physician whose leadership has been pivotal in advancing safe abortion access across Africa. For three decade...
CBS News projects a section will be added to Colorado's state constitution recognizing the right to abortion.
I was in my 20’s in the 1980’s – there was no shortage of abortion services available to women from all walks of life in California, and many other states. It wasn’t the 1950’s. “Too many times, history has shown us that human rights must be enshrined in the ...
Posted:21 July, 2015|Author:AfricLaw|Filed under:Dunia Mekonnen Tegegn|Tags:abortion,access to education,Beijing Platform of Action,birth,CEDAW,childbearing,death,discrimination,family,family planning,fertility,health,marriage,maternal death,maternal health,maternal mortality,pregnancy,right to life,sexual...
Vance criticised the country for the conviction of a 51-year-old man who was given a conditional discharge for breaching a safe zone around an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, and the "safe access zones" enforced outside such facilities in Scotland. ...
Former President Donald Trump has distanced himself from a Heritage Foundation document that outlines positions on abortion and a range of other social issues.