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Eminent medical professionals had written to the judge pleading for Carla Foster to be spared a prison term after she induced a miscarriage at between 32 and 34 weeks

Women's rights activists are calling for urgent abortion law reform after a UK woman is jailed

The woman was sent abortion-causing drugs by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) after she called them during lockdown in 2020 and lied…

A previous hearing was told the 44-year-old mum of three was past 10 weeks of pregnancy and had pleaded guilty to taking abortion pills after the legal limit

Campaigners and MPs ‘appalled’ at jail term for mother of three left ‘racked with guilt’

Mitigation plea signed by medical groups was sent to judge, while BPAS chief executive said sentence was ‘shocking and appalling’

When the Supreme Court ruled on June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that states – some of which have been chipping away at women’s access to abortion for years – should decide the legality of abortion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court’s majority opinion that…

From Covid to crime, from immigration to cultural issues, the Florida governor is aiming to paint Trump as too liberal

Steve Vladeck offers a closely argued, detailed case against the justices’ use of procedure to advance a rightwing agenda

A committee of the Maine Legislature has signed off on a proposal from Democratic Gov. Janet Mills that would give the state one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the country

Justice Samir Dave of the Gujarat High Court on Thursday quoted the ancient Sanskrit legal text Manusmriti to support his contention that girls used to get married at the age of 14 or 15 and would often deliver a baby by the age of 17.