Americans looking overseas for abortion pills as U.S. laws tighten 03:27. Amsterdam — As oral arguments resume Wednesday in a landmark federal court case over the Food and Drug Administration's ...

In the report, Amnesty says that by failing to ensure that abortion care is accessible and affordable, the United States is “failing to comply with international human rights laws and standards ...

Three Polish doctors have been convicted for their roles in the 2021 death of a pregnant woman, known as Iza, from sepsis ...

Abortion Tracking abortion laws by state Abortion on the ballot Before Roe Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health In many countries, abortion is protected by law, not court decision ...

By overturning federal protections for abortion access, the U.S. "is in violation of its obligations under international human rights law," the letter said, detailing alleged violations of rights ...

As the Court reviews the law in Dobbs, it should consider that in the international abortion landscape, the extreme permissiveness of U.S. abortion laws is decidedly an outlier.It also could take ...

In the case of El Salvador, abortion was decriminalized for a brief period between 1973 and 1975, but a penal code instituted in 1978 engendered a total ban -- including in the case of incest or rape.

Amnesty International released a report on Friday urging authorities to protect abortion rights defenders, including healthcare workers, more effectively. The group interviewed 48 abortion rights ...

In the Global North, most women trace the history of medication abortion to the invention in the 1980 s of the French abortion pill RU-486, now known as mifepristone.In the Global South ...

Click to see how restrictive or liberal local abortion laws are — and to look at the rate of abortion. The data offers a sense of whether stricter abortion laws reduce the number of abortions.

Now Maryland is one of 10 states with abortion-related measures on the ballot in November, most of which would protect abortion rights. Nine, including those in Maryland and Florida, where a six ...

For nearly 50 years in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court asserted that the U.S. Constitution protected the right to access abortion under Roe v. Wade. But on June 24, 2022, the Dobbs ...