The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

Campaigners stress ‘abortion is healthcare, not a crime - we should not be policing people’s bodies’

Carla Foster, 44, was given a 28-month extended sentence earlier this week after she admitted illegally procuring her own abortion.

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and a North Carolina OB-GYN filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal court to declare Senate Bill 20 unconstitutional and to block it from taking effect.

"Google is a willing participant and supporter of the fake clinic industry," according to a new report

It comes as pro-choice campaigners warn that it will be 'challenging' to bring in decriminalisation in Scotland

Letters: Readers debate whether a mother who had an abortion beyond the legal limit of 24 weeks should have been sent to prison

A bid by Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds to reinstate the state’s strict ban on most abortions has failed

Many states have imposed sweeping restrictions that all but ban abortion since the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 50-year-old constitutional right to the procedure. These laws have created new obstacles for pregnant patients facing life-threatening complications like severe fetal anomalies, cancer diagnoses and ectopic pregnancies – when…

Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee says