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reproductive rights

A woman with a black and white striped shirt sits outside with younger children surrounding her.
Human rights
Czech Republic may offer justice, compensation to thousands of sterilized Roma women 
Women's March activists participate in a nationwide protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to fill the seat on the Supreme Court left by the passing of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 election, in Washington, Oct. 17, 2020.
2020 US presidential election
How the US presidential election could impact women’s health worldwide
gomperts
Health & Medicine
As access to abortion gets harder in the US, women turn to an online service in the Netherlands
Shadowy figures walk down a dark street.
Justice
Dozens of Indigenous women forcibly sterilized file a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government
A model of a fetus
Health & Medicine
The South Korean government is reviewing its 1950s abortion ban
People celebrate the result of this week's referendum on liberalizing abortion law
Health
After Ireland’s historic vote, UK hears calls to relax rules in Northern Ireland
A blond woman is speaking into a microphone at a podium with a sign on the front that says "Stand up for women"
Global Politics
Outgoing Planned Parenthood head says rights are ‘at risk under this government’
March for Life
Lifestyle
He argues for rolling back abortion rights in the US
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
Thousands of protesters gathered for the annual March for Life rally in Washington, DC.
Conflict
A Latina explains why she backs the March for Life
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 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
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
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
women's rights
Global Politics
Need to know how your state’s doing when it comes to women’s health? There’s an app for that.
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
Sonia Narang Q&A_03
Health
How Filipino moms endure a maternity ward that’s like ‘a blaring supermarket deli counter’
Iranian Women
Health
Iran may ban vasectomies, cut access to contraceptives to boost births
Natural Family Planning 1
Health
The debate over ‘natural family planning’: Does it work?
Development
A push to tackle issues of global gender inequality
A woman holds a birth control pill at her home in Nice, France.
Health
The inside, not-always-ethical story of how ‘The Pill’ was made
Health & Medicine
Why contraception might be a way out of poverty for Filipino families
Fatima Haroon, a pregnant woman in Pakistan
Health & Medicine
What if your mother-in-law decided when you got pregnant?
Fatima Haroon, a pregnant woman in Pakistan
Health & Medicine
What if your mother-in-law decided when you got pregnant?
Arts, Culture & Media
Controversy over women’s health services fuels comedians