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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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Marta, Anna, Jusyna, Beata, Iza, Joanna, Izabela, Alicija, Dorota. These are just some of the names of women who have died in Poland due to an almost total ban on abortion. This ban has a devastating impact on many women and their families. And yet, Poland was one of the first European countries to introduce legal rights to abortion back in 1932. This striking turnaround didn’t happen overnight. It happened gradually, starting in the 1990s, and by 2020 an almost total ban was passed by the Constitutional Court in a decision that is generally perceived as politically motivated and is in discord...
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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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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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It was March 2017 when Claudia Hohmann, director of the Pro Familia family planning centre in Frankfurt, saw anti-abortion demonstrators show up with signs and flyers outside the door of her workplace for the very first time. “The pro-life movement calls them vigils, as their purpose is to prevent people from having abortions and ‘save’ children,” she told Euronews. “Since then, the vigils in front of our centre take place twice a year for forty days.” The Pro Familia centre headed by for the past nine years Hohmann sits in a quiet, wealthy area of west Frankfurt, near the city’s botanical gar...
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By Ritika Jain The Delhi High Court’s u-turn on an order permitting a woman abortion after All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) said foeticide was unethical in late-stage pregnancy has raised concerns. The high court on January 23 recalled its January 4 order after AIIMS expressed ethical concerns over aborting a foetus that is “grossly normal”. The Centre, too, had appealed for a recall seeking protection for the “unborn child”. In India, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act allows for women (including cis genders) to opt for abortion up to 24 weeks. Beyond that, they must...
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Healthcare professionals have no legal obligation to contact the police following a suspected illegal abortion, according to new guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). "It is never in the public interest to investigate and prosecute women who have sought to end their own pregnancy," Ranee Thakar, president of the global organisation for women’s health, said. “These women should be treated with care and compassion, without judgement or fear of imprisonment,” she added. What to know about US abortion measures as country marks anniversary of Roe v WadeThe RCOG...
Euronews (English)
There has been a flurry of activity in US states over abortion policy as the country marks the anniversary of the Roe v Wade. A 2022 Supreme Court ruling overturned the nationwide right to abortion that Roe provided. The anniversary is now giving Democrats, including President Joe Biden's reelection campaign, a chance to rally voters around abortion access. Abortion opponents also rallied last week in Washington with a context that's different from past editions of the annual March for Life. There's no longer a nationwide right to abortion and 14 states have bans on abortion at all stages of p...
Euronews (English)
There has been a flurry of activity in US states over abortion policy as the country marks the anniversary of the Roe v Wade. A 2022 Supreme Court ruling overturned the nationwide right to abortion that Roe provided. The anniversary is now giving Democrats, including President Joe Biden's reelection campaign, a chance to rally voters around abortion access. Abortion opponents also rallied last week in Washington with a context that's different from past editions of the annual March for Life. There's no longer a nationwide right to abortion and 14 states have bans on abortion at all stages of p...
Euronews (English)
By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court on January 19 will likely decide on the Centre’s plea seeking a recall of its order permitting a woman to abort her pregnancy amid mental health concerns. The Centre challenged the high court’s January 4 order and sought protection for the unborn child. The Centre’s plea comes two weeks after the high court permitted a woman to abort her pregnancy after taking note of medical reports that diagnosed her as suffering from extreme trauma and depression because of her husband’s death. The woman, a 26-year-old, lost her husband in October 2023 barely seven months aft...
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