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Abortion

As the US ends constitutional protections for abortions, The World looks at how policies and debates on reproductive rights play out across the globe.
Nathalie Vilgrain, sixth from left, is the head of Marijàn, a feminist organization in Port-Au-Prince that is sheltering about 150 women who have been displaced by sexual violence.
Sexual violence
In Haiti, sexual violence is devastating women and girls
A pink sign in the forefront of a largely female crowd that reads in Spanish "Swiftie No Vota Milei"
Politics
In Argentina, ‘Swifties Don’t Vote For Milei’
Women in a small group holding signs with text written in Spanish
Sacred Nation
This tiny country is home to Europe’s toughest abortion ban
close-up shot of Honduran President Castro wearing a mask
Leaders
Honduras’ first female leader faces tough times
woman near a machine
Abortion
‘They’re hurting themselves’: In Lebanon, women risk their lives to get an abortion illegally 
Anti-abortion demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the day the court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade abortion laws.
Abortion
Opinion: Roe v. Wade overturned: Will more Americans travel to Canada and Mexico for abortions?
a woman near a banner
Abortion
Mexico’s abortion laws have become more accessible
children in front of a mural
Abortion
Kenya’s abortion debate
The Supreme Court in Washington
Abortion
Abortion ruling exposes deep chasm over the issue in the US
Anesthesiologist Liu Jianmin prepares for an abortion at a clinic run by Marie Stopes International in Xi'an in central China's Shaanxi province
Abortion
Abortion access in China has changed drastically amid declining birth rate
A group of women's rights activists with a sign reading "Abortion Without Borders" protesting Poland's strict anti-abortion law, outside the top constitutional court, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022.
Abortion
Poland’s ‘pregnancy registry’ will further restrict abortion access, activists say
a woman enters the Supreme Court in London
Abortion
Northern Ireland decriminalized abortion 3 years ago. But services are still difficult to access.
protest with signs
Abortion
Roe v. Wade highlights the important role of high courts in democratic societies
In this photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2011, a graffiti against revealing the gender of unborn fetuses stands outside a clinic in Morena in the Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. 
Abortion
India’s abortion law still lacks a rights-based approach, gynecologist says
Protesters gather outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov.6, 2021, to protest against the restrictive abortion laws after a woman died of complications during her pregnancy. 
Abortion
This Polish activist sent abortion pills to a woman in need. Now she’s on trial.
Activists of the "Unione Donne Sammarinesi" San Marino's women union camp celebrate in San Marino, Sept. 26, 2021, the victory in a referendum to decriminalize abortion in certain circumstances.
Abortion
San Marino votes to legalize abortion, ending a 150-year-old ban
In this June 16, 2021, file photo, a migrant family from Venezuela move to a Border Patrol transport vehicle after they and other migrants crossed the US-Mexico border and turned themselves in Del Rio, Texas.
Abortion
Undocumented women face shrinking options for reproductive health care under Texas abortion law
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Kenyan women wait to receive family planning and reproductive health services at the Family Health Options Kenya
Culture
Kenyan health providers call Trump’s global gag rule ‘a death sentence’ for women
Denisse
Justice
Meet the women who escorted Jane Doe to her abortion
doctors in afghanistan
Bioethics in Islam
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Chile eases on abortions
Development
Chile eases one of the world’s strictest abortion bans
Chinese boy bundled up. Critics say that the UNFPA has supported coercive abortions of women who tried to have more than one child
Culture
Trump officials say the UN supports coercive abortion in China. But does it?
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
Teen pregnancy in Nicaragua is mostly caused by machismo culture and a lack of sex ed.
Health
Nicaragua’s teen pregnancy rate soars
Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children.
Health
Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives
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
Planned Parenthood Looks Ahead to Life After Obama
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Viola Davis, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, VICE News
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Julie Morrissy
Belief
These activists are putting a face to a taboo word in Ireland: abortion
Alessandro Gomes, who has microcephaly, has his head measured by a neurologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital in Recife, Brazil, Jan. 26.
Health
The Zika virus has reignited Brazil’s abortion debate
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
Scandal
Media
Why we need more shame-free TV characters who reflect the reality of abortion
Planned Parenthood
Global Politics
There’s a long legacy of violence against abortion providers in the US
A member of the New York Police Department stands outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in New York, a day after the shootings in Colorado Springs.
Health
Is the Colorado Springs shooting at a Planned Parenthood Clinic an ‘act of terrorism?’
Robert L. Dear
Conflict
Most attacks in US carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists
Body Politics
Justice
Purvi Patel’s legal team attacks evidence behind her controversial conviction for feticide, child neglect
Pope Francis
Belief
Pope Francis announces a year of ‘mercy’ — and gives ordinary priests the power to forgive the sin of abortion
A pilot flies a Phantom drone by DJI company at the 4th Intergalactic Meeting of Phantom's Pilots
Health
Abortion rights advocates will launch an ‘abortion drone’ into Poland this weekend
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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
A sign marking the border between the United States and Canada at Niagara Falls.
Health
Why Canadian women are travelling to Maine to get abortions
Abortion in Ethiopia — Khadija's hands
Health
Doctors in Ethiopia are looking past their religious beliefs on abortions to save lives
Public sector doctors
Health
A Dutch physician is making abortion drugs more accessible to women around the world — by mail
Janet Ni Shuilleabhain was 18 when she traveled to England for an abortion
Lifestyle & Belief
How tweeting a story of a secret abortion shocked Ireland