The European Court of Human Rights will consider the issue of abortion in Ireland and subsequently rule whether or not the current laws violate women’s rights. The case has reached the court after three women complained that their health had been put at risk by abortion laws in the country; as a result of the […]
Foreign women are heading to Sweden for abortions, it has been revealed. Women are choosing Sweden because gender-based abortion is legal there; this means couples can abort a baby if it is not the gender they want. Women can abort babies within the first 18 weeks of the pregnancy and may choose to do so […]
Anti-abortion protesters have been targeting a high school in Raleigh, North Carolina, to the anger of a number of students who resent their presence. Protesters have been holding up placards showing pictures of aborted foetuses on the steps of Wake County high school, handing out literature. They have already visited other schools in the area, […]
Pro-life campaign groups throughout Australia, but particularly in Queensland, are preparing to fight proposed changes to the law on abortion in the state. Currently, abortion is still illegal in Queensland, though in reality women can access treatment easily if there are medical reasons for the termination to take place. However, the current Queensland government is […]
Teachers have condemned the use of anti-abortion lessons in secondary schools. Teachers, along with family planning groups and humanists, have criticised anti-abortion groups for shocking children by using graphic, hard-hitting images. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is being invited to secondary schools across the country to talk to children about the […]
American Idol winner and R&B singer, Fantasia Barrino, 26, admitted during a court hearing in Charlotte, North Carolina, to aborting the baby she conceived with her married ex-lover and father of two, Antwaun Cook. Barrino, who has Cook’s name tattooed above her left breast, had been having an affair with Cook since August 2009 and […]
A New Zealand medical doctor recently said she believes the cause of the high abortion rate in the country is a lack of choice in contraception. Speaking on a television programme, Dr. Pippa Mackay said: “It’s partly a cultural issue and partly an issue around a lack of education and information on contraception and I’m […]
The former President of the United States, George W. Bush has revealed in a TV interview where his strict anti-abortion stance comes from. When he was a teenager his mother, herself a former First Lady, showed him a dead foetus in a jar after she had suffered a miscarriage. “There’s no question that affected me, […]
Gay activists staged demonstrations throughout the Pope’s recent visit to Spain, in protest at his condemnation of gay marriage and abortion. The country’s socialist government, led by José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, recently legalised both gay marriage and removed obstructions to gay couples adopting children, a controversial move in traditionally Catholic Spain. The Pope made his […]
Holocaust survivor Dr Henry Morgentaler was one of those responsible for changing the draconian abortion laws in Canada, by challenging the status quo and even carrying out illegal procedures. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, women needing terminations had to look for doctors and clinics who were prepared to risk prosecution by carrying out the procedures […]