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 […]
The recent presidential campaign was finally sparked into life when Christian groups published claims that one of the leading candidates was planning on lifting the South American country’s ban on abortion. Dilma Rousseff, the Workers Party candidates, just failed to secure victory after the first round of voting and is now fighting an organised campaign […]
Although 80,000 terminations are carried out in Australia every year, the procedure is still considered illegal in most states and can only be carried out very early in pregnancy with the approval of two doctors. This strange combination of illegality and acceptance has been brought into the spotlight recently, thanks to a case involving a […]
It has emerged in recent news reports that many women in China are being forced into having abortions, even in the later stages of pregnancy, in attempts by government officials to keep a strong grip on population numbers and fully enforce their one-child family planning laws. Conservative reports show that the “one-child policy leads to […]
In many media outlets, there are some images which are produced to cause an immediate reaction. Some might even offend which can cause outrage by many. After trying to put up an explicit anti-abortion display at Carleton University, five Ontario university students did exactly that. Attempts were made to put juxtaposed images of bloody fetuses […]
An increase in figures of doctors not willing to carry out abortions has led to Europe’s most renowned human rights association to take steps in preventing them from letting their morals dictate their professionalism. Previously ousted at the general election, British Socialist member Christine McCafferty has called for a ban in the rights of doctors […]