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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
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    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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