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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
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 woman enters the Supreme Court in London
Abortion
Northern Ireland decriminalized abortion 3 years ago. But services are still difficult to access.
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
A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed. Early-stage abortions are legal in Thailand, but many doctors and nurses there refuse to do them.
Sacred Nation
In Thailand, new abortion freedoms face spiritual resistance
Doctors for Choice in Malta gather to advocate for a bill to decriminalize abortion in Malta.
Reproductive rights
Abortion is illegal in Malta. Activists are trying to increase access.
Misoprostol drug, the most common abortion pill
Reproductive rights
Catalonia’s temporary tele-abortion services are a game-changer for women with limited access
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone celebrates Easter Mass, which was live-streamed, at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, April 12, 2020.
What the debate over Biden receiving Communion may mean for the world
A crowd of people are shown with a woman in the center holding a banner and wearing a winter hat and green scarf with writing on it.
Reproductive rights
Near-total abortion ban takes effect in Poland amid protests
A group of women raise their arms and wave green flags
Reproductive rights
Bill legalizing abortion passed in pope’s native Argentina
People are shown holding pipes letting off green smoke with the Argentine capital dome in the distance.
Reproductive rights
Argentina’s lower house approves bill legalizing abortion
Crosses bearing tags with names are seen in a graveyard of the Flaminio Cemetery, in Rome, Italy, Oct. 16, 2020.
Reproductive rights
In Italy, religious organizations’ ‘fetus graves’ reignite abortion debate
People take part in a protest against the ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that imposed a near-total ban on abortion in Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 28, 2020. The banner reads: "The Law And Justice Council introduced the church law at midnight today." 
Reproductive rights
‘Screaming at the priests’: Polish activists protest anti-abortion ruling
Volunteers from the conservative group 40 Days for Life pray outside an abortion clinic in Bogotá, Colombia, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020.
Reproductive rights
US conservative groups ramp up influence in Colombia amid abortion debate
Women stand together and hold sings in Spanish in a city.
Lifestyle & Belief
Photos: The women of Argentina’s abortion debate
An anti-abortion marcher carries a picture of Jesus Christ during a rally at the Supreme Court during the 46th annual “March for Life” in Washington, D.C. on January 18, 2019.
Lifestyle & Belief
When does life begin? It might depend on your faith.
Women with green bandanas protest in a crowd
Health & Medicine
Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
a close up of an abortion rights activist with purple paint on her face
Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
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Health & Medicine
As access to abortion gets harder in the US, women turn to an online service in the Netherlands
a female prisoner holds her baby in a room with laundry hanging
Women & Gender
Salvadoran women bond serving long sentences for the ‘crime’ of miscarriage
A woman wearing a yellow shirt holds a toddler in her arms near a mural.
Activists in Kenya challenge abortion ban in court
rally
Why Argentinian activists aren’t stepping down after the Senate voted against legalizing abortion
Senator and former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner sits next to Senator Marcelo Fuentes as lawmakers debated a bill that would have legalized abortion, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 9, 2018.
Argentina Senate rejects measure to legalize abortion
A model of a fetus
Health & Medicine
The South Korean government is reviewing its 1950s abortion ban
Messages are left at a memorial in Dublin to Savita Halappanava, who died from an infection after miscarrying her first child at an Irish hospital in 2012, one day after Irish voters took part in a national referendum to liberalize abortion laws on May 25
Ireland votes to repeal abortion restrictions, but there’s still a lot to talk about
Mueller, Trump & Russia: The Counter-Intelligence Probe Defining The Presidency
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Participants in the "Rally for Life" demonstration marched through Dublin, Ireland on March 10, 2018. They called for voters to say 'No' in a national referendum set for May 25, asking if Ireland should repeal the constitutional amendment banning abortion
Lifestyle & Belief
This Irish podcaster dives into the abortion debate
Demonstrators taking part in an anti-abortion rally in Dublin, Ireland on March 10, 2018. An estimated 100,000 people were there to "Save the 8th", the constitutional amendment that bans abortion.
Religion
Ireland’s strict ban on abortion could soon be a thing of the past
Asian Americans May Lose Out in Trump Administration’s Census
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Escorts surround this patient outside of Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood, New Jersey.
Culture
When health care comes with harassment: Photographing abortion clinic protests
Moral Ambiguity in the Age of Trump
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March for Life
Lifestyle
He argues for rolling back abortion rights in the US
Catholic high school students from all over the country attended Friday's "March for Life" event in Washington, DC. This group from Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School in Wichita, Kansas took buses to be there.
Religion
For some Christians, being ‘pro-life’ isn’t just about being against abortion
Reflecting on a Year of Trump
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Brazil
Global Politics
Brazil could soon outlaw abortion altogether
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?
Abortion ban protest
Justice
Brussels to host fundraising conference after Trump’s anti-abortion move
Pope abortion
Global Politics
All priests may forgive ‘sin’ of abortion, Pope Francis says
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
Inside airplane
Conflict
In a country where no one wants to talk about abortion, these women live-tweeted it
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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Abortion Returns to the Supreme Court
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Planned Parenthood volunteers keep watch over anti-abortion protesters outside Planned Parenthood Wednesday, March 2, 2016, in Houston. The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over Texas abortion clinic regulations in its biggest abortion cas
Justice
Latinas in Texas could be adversely affected if the Supreme Court upholds this abortion law
Reckoning Wednesday
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Viola Davis, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, VICE News
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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
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
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
Scandal
Media
Why we need more shame-free TV characters who reflect the reality of abortion