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    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Mexico’s Supreme Court enshrines abortion rights

      Decision is the latest victory for reproductive rights activists in Latin America as US states face growing restrictions

      A banner reading ‘Abortion Out of the Penal Code’ hangs outside of a building in Mexico City  on International Women’s Day
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      US presidential election 2024
      ‘Of course he lost’: Ron DeSantis dismisses Trump’s 2020 election claims

      Florida governor also appears to moderate hardline abortion stance in yet-to-air NBC interview

      Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis at a speech in Iowa on Sunday, where Donald Trump supporters hold up signs bearing the former president’s name.
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
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      Turmoil over US abortions turns spotlight on safe havens for newborns

      Just over a year after the ruling overturning Roe vs Wade, debate over ‘baby boxes’ is heated

      Safe Haven poster in a firestation
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Pentagon at war with football coach turned senator over abortion policy

      Alabama lawmaker Tommy Tuberville holding up appointments of top US military brass

      Tommy Tuberville a
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      US regulator approves first over-the-counter birth control pill

      Food and Drug Administration’s decision is significant development in nationwide battle over reproductive rights

    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Roe vs Wade
      US Supreme Court’s abortion ruling remains a ‘live wire’ a year on

      Planned Parenthood president says raft of new restrictions will mobilise voters in 2024 and beyond

      Alexis McGill Johnson
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Angela Saini
      From Russia to America, the politics of patriarchy

      Concerns about population are key to understanding how nations and their armies behave

      Illustration of five people at various stages of growth, from a baby to a soldier wearing an army rucksack and helmet and carrying a rifle
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Roe vs Wade
      US Supreme Court pauses restrictions on abortion pill

      Decision halts limitations imposed by a Texas judge earlier this month

      Protestors outside the US Supreme Court
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      US Supreme Court leaves abortion pill ruling on hold

      Justice Samuel Alito extends deadline for further action until Friday

      Anti-abortion protesters outside the US Supreme Court
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      US Supreme Court puts abortion pill restrictions on temporary hold

      Justice Samuel Alito’s decision gives high court until next week to consider further action in the closely watched case

      Protesters show their support for abortion rights outside the US Supreme Court on Friday
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Republican Party US
      Republicans risk voter backlash as they advance attacks on abortion

      Tough restrictions such as those passed in Florida are proving unpopular with the wider public

      Three members of the Women’s March group protest in support of access to abortion medication outside the Federal Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas
    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      Biden administration asks US Supreme Court to block abortion pill ruling

      Appeals court preserved access to tablets containing mifepristone while temporarily imposing restrictions on them

      People marching through Amarillo, Texas, to protest against a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone
    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      Lex
      Abortion pill: judicial activism poses threat to US pharma industry Premium content

      If ban becomes permanent, challenges to FDA’s authority by special interest groups could proliferate

      A box of the abortion drug mifepristone, branded as Mifeprex
    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      US pharma executives condemn Texas abortion pill ruling

      Industry figures warn judge’s decision could put medical innovation at risk

      A woman looks at a website with the mifepristone pill
    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Biden administration vows to fight Texas judge’s ruling on abortion pill

      Health secretary says ‘all options’ being considered to guarantee availability of mifepristone

      Matthew Kacsmaryk answers questions during his nomination hearing in Washington
    • Saturday, 8 April, 2023
      US judge suspends regulatory approval of abortion drug

      Issue looks headed for Supreme Court after separate ruling in Washington state upholds supply of mifepristone

      Boxes of mifepristone are prepared for patients at Women’s Reproductive Clinic of New Mexico in Santa Teresa
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      News in-depthChinese society
      China’s fertility treatment rules push single women to Hong Kong

      Beijing faces calls to ease access to egg freezing and IVF amid demographic crisis

      Newborn babies at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong
    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Wisconsin’s highest court shifts to the left in closely watched election

      Most expensive judicial race in US history comes as decision on state’s post-Roe abortion ban looms

      Janet Protasiewicz waits to vote
    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      Access to abortion pills at risk in US as judge weighs ‘unprecedented’ case

      Pharma groups and legal experts fear fallout if Texas court overturns regulatory approval after 23 years

      Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion
    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      Roe vs Wade
      Demand for morning-after pill rises in US as abortion restrictions spread

      Sales of Plan B emergency contraception jump while those of birth control pills and condoms fall, analysis shows

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      News in-depthSpanish politics
      ‘Ticking time bomb’: Spain’s Vox party stirs controversy over abortion rights

      Foetal heartbeat proposal from regional government highlights perils of coalition with the hard right

      People kneel and pray during an anti-abortion march in Madrid last year
    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
      Roe vs Wade
      Republicans split over post-Roe abortion laws

      Several presidential hopefuls are pushing for stricter bans to differentiate themselves from Donald Trump

      Anti-abortion demonstrators rally outside the US Supreme Court during the March for Life in Washington
    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Supreme Court US
      US Supreme Court yet to find who leaked draft abortion ruling

      Investigation says it is ‘unlikely’ that IT systems were hacked by an external actor

      The US Supreme Court
    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Investor activism
      Shareholders bring US abortion battle to the boardroom

      Companies face demands to explain how they are affected by tough restrictions

      Abortion rights protesters march outside the Indiana State Capitol building in July last year
    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Roe vs Wade
      US regulator moves to expand access to abortion pills

      FDA will let pharmacies dispense medication after Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to tighten restrictions

      Protesters in New York after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade
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