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After years of silence, Texas Medical Board issues training on how to legally provide abortions

The course includes examples of when abortion is permitted to protect the life of the patient, but many experts say pregnancy complications are impossible to capture in a brief presentation.

The Texas Tribune

Federal and state authorities are taking a 2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion

Anti-abortion conservatives have long sought to force Planned Parenthood’s clinics to close their doors and to make it harder, if not impossible, to get abortion pills as part of a two-pronged approach to limit access to abortion.

The Conversation

Townsville hospital investigates after South Australian anti-abortion activist posts image of aborted foetus

Joanna Howe claims a ‘whistleblower’ sent her the image, which was taken inside the hospital’s room for grieving parents

The Guardian - AU

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Texas man sues California doctor for allegedly sending abortion pills to state

Suit is the first under new law allowing residents to sue providers protected in their states under ‘shield laws’

The Guardian - US

Ken Paxton suing California doctor in second lawsuit citing Texas abortion pill law

Paxton's suit follows another by a Galveston County man against the same doctor. Both cite House Bill 7, passed in September, that allows lawsuits over abortion pill access.

The Texas Tribune

Diane Munday obituary

Pioneering abortion campaigner whose beliefs were underpinned by humanism

The Guardian - UK

Planned Parenthood drops lawsuit against Trump administration's Medicaid cuts

Planned Parenthood has dropped its legal challenge against the Trump administration's decision to cut off Medicaid funding to its abortion providers

The Independent UK

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These states voted to protect abortion rights. Conservative lawmakers are not standing down

A trial in Missouri illustrates how hard it is to restore abortion rights, even when voters demand it

The Guardian - US

What to know about the federal charges in the protest at a Minnesota church service

Seven people associated with a protest that interrupted a worship service at a Minnesota church have been charged with violating two different federal laws that are designed to prevent disruptions to Americans' rights

The Independent UK

Woman denies interfering with provision of abortion services

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was charged by West Midlands Police in December for ‘silently praying in a buffer zone’, it is claimed.

Evening Standard

How America’s Abortion Wars Are Creeping Into British Women’s Healthcare

American anti-abortion money, messaging and legal tactics are crossing the Atlantic — putting UK women’s healthcare and bodily autonomy at risk.

Marie Claire

‘I was violated and put in extreme danger’: women denied abortions sue over Arkansas ban

Suit filed by Amplify Legal says laws violate constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

The Guardian - US

AG Ken Paxton sues another out-of-state provider accused of illegally sending abortion-inducing pills to Texans

In 2024, Texas also sued a New York provider accused of prescribing abortion pills, but her state’s law has shielded her from prosecution.

The Texas Tribune

Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines

Suit against Debra Lynch is latest from Texas’s Republican attorney general amid ongoing attacks on abortion pills

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Fight over US healthcare subsidies stuck on familiar snag: abortion

Republicans refuse to advance without more restrictions on abortion coverage – Democrats say that’s a nonstarter

The Independent UK

Human rights groups hit out at Trump expanding ‘disastrous and deadly’ abortion policy

The longstanding Republican policy — which the US president has now substantially broadened — restricted organisations receiving US funding from performing or promoting abortion

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JD Vance outdoes himself in the creepy department by inventing ancient brothel theories about dead children

Inventing history is the natural next step for MAGA's anti-abortion agenda.

The Independent UK

Anti-abortion leaders admit they were ‘fooled’ by Trump one year into his presidency: ‘He’s made things significantly worse’

While the pro-life lobby has celebrated some of Trump’s actions, prominent activists now claim the president has ‘betrayed’ the movement

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Roll Call

Vance pledges anti-abortion policies after White House deemed soft

Marchers descended on the National Mall Friday as politicians pledged to take the next steps to ending abortion.

The Guardian - US

Meet the OB-GYNs fighting back against Trump’s ‘guerrilla war on science’

As some medical groups cave to the Trump administration, the American College of OB-GYNs is taking a stand

The Guardian - US

Trump administration to block aid from subsidizing DEI and trans rights overseas

Decision marks dramatic expansion of ‘Mexico City policy’, which abortion rights supporters call ‘global gag rule’

Roll Call

Sidelined last election, abortion returns to policy limelight

Sidelined last election, abortion returns to policy limelight - Health Care Abortion returns to policy discussions after being sidelined last election.

The Guardian - US

Chile’s president-elect names staunch abortion opponent as gender equality minister

Far-right incoming president picked Judith Marín, who has publicly decried bills to decriminalise abortion, for the role

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Doctor refuses to answer senator’s gotcha question about pregnant men, condemns ‘polarized language’

An abortion hearing just went viral.

The Independent UK

‘Coercive’ Trump-led US health deals could cause global abortion access to collapse, charities warn

Special Report: Leading NGOs fear the deals in Africa – offering financial assistance in exchange for things like mining rights and access to health data – are worded vaguely enough for the US to impose restrictions on reproductive rights

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