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My Voice, My Choice citizens' initiative hails 'historic' EU decision on accessible abortion

The EU announced a social fund can be used for cross-border abortion access, drawing mixed reactions from politicians. Nonetheless, the move marks an unusual step taken by the European Union, as healthcare policy is typically determined at a national level.

Euronews

EU opens up funding to guarantee abortion rights across bloc

Women from countries with near-total bans on terminations will be given help to access services elsewhere

The Guardian - UK

European Commission says EU funds can be used for cross-border abortion access

The decision comes in reaction to a campaign launched by the citizens' initiative "My Voice, My Choice", which raised 1,124,513 signatures across all 27 EU member states asking for improved access to safe abortions in Europe.

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Left-wing MEPs push European Commission to finance abortions across borders

Signed by 105 MEPs, the letter to Ursula von der Leyen calls for a European fund to ensure effective access to reproductive healthcare, a move one million European citizens have requested.

Euronews

Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion

Representational government rests on a simple idea: that the laws the nation lives under generally reflect what the public wants. In the United States, few issues test that idea more than abortion.

The Conversation

Tennessee Republicans propose bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion

House Bill 570 allows for death penalty to be imposed on women who have abortions, as well as charging women ‘involved in the homicide of her own unborn child’

The Independent UK

Tennessee Republicans Seeks Death Penalty for Women Who Have Abortions— 'Homicide of Unborn Child'

Tennessee considers a bill that would impose the death penalty on women who have abortions, sparking widespread debate and outrage across the state.

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Underage pregnant migrants are being detained and moved to a Texas shelter where abortion is illegal

Children as young as 13 are ‘trapped’ in a state with no access to abortion, lawyers and advocates say

The Independent UK

What Reform UK’s senior figures really think about women and families

As Reform UK surges in the polls and attempts to get its top team ready to fight an election, The Independent has taken a look at exactly what key figures in the party have said about marriage, women, abortion and fertility – and what it might mean for policy

The Independent UK

Kash Patel’s girlfriend picked to sing National Anthem before Pete Hegseth’s anti-abortion address

‘We are not ‘In woke we trust,’ we are ‘In God we trust,’’ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during the event

The Independent UK

Texas House candidates in South Texas face allegations of lying about their party affiliation

Republicans hope to flip the Rio Grande Valley state House seat, long held by Democrats.

The Texas Tribune

Cuts Aimed at Abortion Are Hitting Basic Care

Emergency state support for Planned Parenthood can’t fully offset lost Medicaid dollars, and patients are paying the price.

Capital & Main

Texas Tech medical school cancels talk on health, ethical considerations in late-pregnancy abortions

University leaders declined to give a reason. Abortion opponents said the discussion would have promoted illegal activity, something advocates deny.

The Texas Tribune

Ken Paxton’s ‘Shoddy’ Prosecution of a Midwife Is Part of a Strategy to Expand His Power. Low-Income Houstonians Are Paying the Price.

Maria Margarita Rojas is the first healthcare provider charged for abortion care under Texas’ strict criminal ban. Her attorneys say the state has no evidence—yet her clinics remain shuttered.

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The Independent UK

Woman denied legal abortion sent to maximum-security prison after illegally terminating pregnancy

A young woman in Zambia was sent to a maximum-security prison after she was denied a legal abortion

The Times of India

‘Unborn babies are now treated as human beings’: Puerto Rico signs historic law recognising the fetus

Puerto Rico's governor signed a law recognizing unborn children as human beings in criminal cases, aiming to punish violence against pregnant women. While officials insist it doesn't ban abortion, critics fear this legal shift could undermine reproductive rights and medical autonomy, sparking widespread debate and unease among medical professionals.

Cinemablend

One Of My Favorite Rom-Coms Is On Netflix, But It Might Be Too Dark For Some People

Jenny Slate's 2014 rom-com is still worth a watch in 2026.

LiveScience

Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals

A figure commonly used to compare the risk of death from pregnancy compared with the risk of death from abortion might be based on outdated data, a new study suggests.

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The Guardian - AU

Rebel Queensland LNP MP urges colleagues to ‘put on the full armour of God’ and speak against abortion

Nigel Dalton says he sought to redeem himself ‘in the eyes of God’ by crossing the floor in an attempt to overturn the LNP’s abortion debate gag order

Reason

Federal Court Recognizes Constitutional Right to Abortion to Prevent Serious Harm to Woman's Health

The court also draws an interesting analogy to self-defense rights.

The Texas Tribune

Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to Texas shelter criticized as medically inadequate

Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

Reason

A Viral Story Claims an ICE Worker Was Caught in a Child Sex Trafficking Sting. The Truth Is Much Stranger.

The way people are misconstruing this prostitution sting mirrors the way ICE tries to mislead us about deportation stings.

The Guardian - AU

Abortion laws, gun control and the rise (again) of One Nation: is Queensland’s LNP fraying at the seams?

David Crisafulli’s government is a triumph of pragmatism over purpose, but cracks have appeared that could have consequences beyond the state border

The Independent UK

Las Vegas woman says her healthy baby survived abortion after doctors twice told her it was ‘non-viable,’ lawsuit claims

Stacy Norris says that she had a ‘maternal instinct’ that told her to get a second opinion on whether or not her baby was alive

The Guardian - AU

Authorities seek to remove from social media image of foetus being circulated by Australian anti-abortion activists

Photograph, first published by anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe, purportedly taken at Townsville hospital

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