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Italy’s Senate has passed legislation which allows regions to permit groups “with a qualified experience supporting motherhood” to have access to women considering abortions at public clinics. For the right-wing government, the amendment fulfils the original intent of the 1978 law legalising abortion, known as Law 194, which includes provisions to prevent the procedure and support motherhood. But some in the medical profession have questioned the wisdom of allowing medically unqualified, anti-abortion groups access to women considering the procedure. “Then you don't understand how you want to ...
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In April 2023 the European Commission proposed new pharmaceutical legislation updating an existing 20-year-old measure and designed to offer patients equitable access to medicines and to boost the role of the industry across the bloc. The key features of the proposed new rules are the reduction in IP protection periods, the introduction of a new system of incentives aiming to boost EU R&D, and efforts to tackle drug shortages in the bloc. However, hidden in the large number of amendments, members of the Parliament deleted exemptive wording from the original proposal regarding contraceptives an...
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Four legislative proposals on abortion are set to be considered by lawmakers in Poland on Thursday, four months after the country's right-wing government was ousted. Women's rights activists are concerned that the three bills set to legalise or decriminalise abortion will be shot down by a minority right-wing government alliance. One of the proposals is from the coalition of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and would legalise abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy. Polish lawmakers OK morning-after pill for ages 15 and over in a first step to ease reproductive lawA fourth bill from a conservative...
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Arizona's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that officials can enforce a 160-year-old law banning abortions. The US state joins 14 others that have banned abortion since the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, a court case that guaranteed access to abortion in the US. Arizona's 1864 law bans abortions except if it is "necessary to save" a woman's life, providing no exceptions for rape or incest. The law predates Arizona's statehood. The state's Supreme Court said enforcement won't begin for at least two weeks, but it could be up to two months. The number of abortions in the state is expected to drop ...
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Donald Trump said abortion limits should be left to the US states in a video released on Monday. The former US president who is once again running for office declined to endorse a national ban after months of mixed messages and speculation. “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both," Trump said in a video posted on his Truth Social site. "And whatever they decide must be the law of the land — in this case, the law of the state". Trump's endorsement of the patchwork approach leaves hi...
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With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled divisions in the European Union nation of about 3.9 million people where abortion remains legal but access to the procedure is often denied, sending many women to neighbouring Slovenia to end a pregnancy. The movement is in stark contrast to Croatia’s recent past when it was part of the former Yugoslavia, a Communist-run country that protected ...
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Alabama lawmakers facing public pressure to restart in vitro fertilisation (IVF) services in the state advanced legislation to shield providers from the fallout of a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Committees in the state Senate and House on Tuesday approved identical bills that would protect providers from lawsuits and criminal prosecution for the “damage or death of an embryo” during IVF services. The state's three major IVF providers paused services after the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling last month because of the sweeping liability concerns it raised. Lawmakers are a...
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Women's rights activists across Europe are joining forces to push for a dedicated funding mechanism in the European Union to make sure that women in the bloc have access to abortion. The movement called "My Voice, My Choice" was launched in Slovenia on Tuesday and brought together activists from several European countries including Spain, Finland, Poland, France, Croatia, and Ireland. "We are organising at the European level to push the abortion issue forward," Marta Lempart, one of the leaders of the Polish Women's Strike, told Euronews Health ahead of the announcement. France's parliament of...
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French lawmakers are gathering in Versailles on Monday for a historic vote to add an article guaranteeing the right to have an abortion in the country's Constitution. The symbolic vote needs three-fifths of both chambers of parliament to agree to make the change official and is expected to pass as both MPs and Senators have agreed on the legislative text. France's Senate voted last week to approve the government's proposed law while the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, voted to approve the proposed Constitutional change in January. Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National A...
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France’s Senate on Wednesday adopted a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution, clearing a major hurdle for the legislation. The constitutional change was prompted by the US Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, a court ruling made five decades ago that had secured access to abortion there. Since the decision in 2022, several US states have passed legislation to restrict access to abortion, with a recent local court decision in Alabama even impacting in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedures as well. "The Supreme Court demonstrated that the rights and fre...
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