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Body Politics: The struggle for access to reproductive rights

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In Buddhist Myanmar, there's a view that abortion is wrong because "human life happens only in a blue moon, so we shouldn't waste a life like this."
Health
Providing safe illegal abortions in Myanmar is a ‘karmic balance,’ says one doctor
Demonstrators celebrate outside the Supreme Court Monday after it struck down a Texas law imposing strict regulations on abortion doctors and facilities that its critics contended were specifically designed to shut down clinics.
Body Politics: The struggle for access to reproductive rights
The Supreme Court just gave a big victory to US abortion rights activists
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Global Politics
Can your vote be a ‘sin’? Abortion brings the church into Peru’s presidential race
Ianka Mikaelle Barbosa, 18, with Sophia, 18 days old, who was born with microcephaly, at her home in Campina Grande, Brazil.
Health
A new bill aims to make Brazil’s abortion law even tougher
A model holds up a female condom in Kolkata, July 21, 2006.
Health
India’s condom showrooms: Where women can talk freely about sex and health
A priest holds up a banner reading "Brazil alive! Without abortion" while standing near an altar where Pope Francis later celebrated mass.
Health
Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world
Julie Morrissy
Belief
These activists are putting a face to a taboo word in Ireland: abortion
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Belief
Abortion: What some Mexicans wish Pope Francis would take head on
Pro-choice activists demonstrate during March for Life Fund's 37th annual march marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision in Washington January 22, 2010
Justice
The coming showdown: A year for reproductive rights
March against house speaker Eduardo Cunha's abortion bill on International Day to End Violence Against Women in Rio de Janeiro
Justice
A mother’s fight for abortion rights in evangelical Brazil
Pro-life protestors demonstrate in Belfast 2012. Even after today’s ruling abortion remains illegal in Northern Ireland in most circumstances.
Health
Despite ruling, abortion is mostly illegal in Northern Ireland. And clinic protests are common.
Reproductive rights in Ecuador
Belief
As Pope Francis visits Ecuador, women there say they’re losing ground
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Medicine
Who is the doctor who paved the way to prison for Purvi Patel?
Purvi Patel is taken into custody after being sentenced to 20 years in prison for feticide and neglect of a dependent on Monday, March 30, 2015, at the St. Joseph County Courthouse in South Bend, Ind.
Medicine
Six disturbing medical issues in the case of Purvi Patel, and one hopeful one
Purvi Patel was sentenced March 30, 2015 for feticide and child neglect.
Justice
Purvi Patel faces 20 years in prison for feticide and child neglect
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Health
How Filipino moms endure a maternity ward that’s like ‘a blaring supermarket deli counter’
Health
‘I didn’t think I’d be able to get pregnant the first time I had sex’
Purvi Patel trial photo
Conflict
Update: Indiana sentences Purvi Patel to decades in prison for what she says was a miscarriage
Memory Banda parliament
Health
Memory Banda escaped child marriage in Malawi, but her 11-year-old sister wasn’t so lucky
CycleBeads are among the apps offering to help with "user-directed birth control."
Health
Sex without the Pill? There’s an app for that!
Women hold up signs during an International Women's Day rally in Lahore, March 8, 2015. Reuters/Mohsin Raza
Global Politics
What should the world do next for equal rights for women?
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Health
The debate over ‘natural family planning’: Does it work?
UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (C), former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim (R) participate in an event on empowering woman and girls, at the World Bank.
Development
What’s the status of women’s rights 20 years after Beijing?
Development
A push to tackle issues of global gender inequality
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Development
In this Manila ‘baby factory,’ why women put up with crowding four to a bed
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Health
How this clinic has changed a nation’s view of family planning