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On the gray cobblestones outside the National Congress of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo, women of all ages sang, clapped and stomped their feet. They held signs reading “El Futuro Es Feminista!” (The Future Is Feminist) and “Por riesgo de vida y salud de las mujeres, yo appoyo las tres causales,” (For women’s life […]
Michelle Wolf on Sunday weighed in on the imminent departure of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, and what it could mean for the future of female reproductive rights. VIDEOSLate-Night Reacts to Justice Kennedy Retirement Bombshell: ‘In Some Ways, It Feels Like All Hope Is Lost’ The Break host suggested that Kennedy’s exit could be “catastrophic,” noting […]
A congressional committee led by evangelical Christians has voted to ban abortion in Brazil in all situations, including cases of rape and where the mother’s life is in danger. CBC | Health News
The association representing more than 800 midwives in Ontario has told the provincial government there is a “burgeoning interest” in allowing midwives to offer abortion services. CBC | Health News
Nearly half of the estimated 56 million abortions performed worldwide every year are unsafe and putting women’s lives at risk, according to a study released Wednesday. CBC | Health News
The province announced Friday that women will soon be able to book an abortion directly at the QEII Health Sciences Centre. The government will also cover the cost of the abortion pill for women who want to terminate early pregnancies. CBC | Health News
10 Face/Shutterstock MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down Alabama’s one-of-a-kind law that enabled judges to put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like proceeding in which the fetus could get a lawyer and prosecutors could object to the pregnant girl’s wishes. Alabama legislators in 2014 changed the state’s process for girls who […]
The United States on Thursday rejected a Canada-led United Nations resolution on eliminating violence against women because it called for access to safe abortion for all women in countries where the procedure is legal. CBC | Health News
For the past 18 years Dr Michael Carrette has been one of the few doctors providing surgical abortions in Cairns. View this image › Getty When he retired late last year, after performing nearly 9000 abortions, women with unwanted pregnancies in Far North Queensland were left in the lurch. The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and […]
