Spanish Government greenlights reform to enshrine abortion in the Constitution
The Spanish Government has greenlighted the reform to enshrine abortion in the country's Constitution.
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UK House of Lords votes to allow abortion up to birth
The UK House of Lords has voted to allow a controversial clause on abortion legislation that removes criminal penalties for women ending their own pregnancies at…
EC says European Social Fund can be used to fund abortions
The European Commission has confirmed that European Union member states may use the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) to support access to legal abortion services,…
Polish doctor’s late abortion case dropped, right-wing MEP on trial instead
Poland’s prosecution service has dropped a criminal investigation of a doctor who carried out an abortion on a woman who was in the ninth month of pregnancy.
Monaco’s Prince Albert bars legalisation of abortion in principality
Prince Albert II of Monaco has declined to sign a law legalising abortion in the tiny principality, thus preventing the practice from acquiring legal validity.
As the bodies of dead babies are dug up, innocent nuns are vilified
This week, the largest excavation of a burial site in Irish history began in Tuam, County Galway.
Polish MEP attempts ‘citizens arrest’ over abortion at week 36 of pregnancy
Polish right-wing MEP Grzegorz Braun attempted a citizen's arrest when he entered a hospital in Poland aiming to detain a gynaecologist he alleged had murdered a…
Anti-abortion protest in Poland shut down because of picture of a foetus
A Polish court has upheld a decision by the Mayor of Toruń to stop an anti-abortion protest over the display of a picture of a foetus.
Pro-abortion activists set up Warsaw clinic in defiance of Polish law
A non-governmental organisation has opened Poland’s first ever abortion clinic despite Polish legislation that severely restricts abortion rights and protests…
Any more of this human ‘progress’ and we will hit species extinction
A former British soldier, Adam Smith-Connor, was last week convicted of silently praying for the soul of his aborted child outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth…
Undeterred by parliament vote, Polish Government gives women access to abortion
The Polish Government, undeterred by losing a parliamentary vote on abortion in July, has issued guidelines allowing terminations to be performed on demand at any…
Poland’s restriction of access to abortion ‘violates human rights’, says UN
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has stated that Poland is violating women's rights by "unduly restricting…
Poles apart: Ruling coalition split derails liberalisation of abortion laws
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was left furious after narrowly losing a parliamentary vote on softening the country's strict abortion laws due to an intra-government…
Italy and France spar over abortion at G7 summit
Italy has demanded the removal of a reference to "safe and legal abortion" from the final statement of this week's Group of Seven summit, diplomats said on Thursday,…
Pro-abortion group wants 1 million signatures to force EC to take action
A European pro-abortion activists' petition entitled My Voice, My Choice: For Safe And Accessible Abortion has already reached nearly 100,000 signatures in little…
Italy set to allow pro-life activists into pregnancy clinics
Using an April 16 amendment to its European Union post-covid recovery plan, the Government said "non-profit groups with qualified experience in supporting maternity"…
Exclusive: Brussels ‘plotting ways to fund abortions across Europe’
Brussels is looking at ways to fund abortions across the continent, according to a report from a behind-closed-doors meeting.
Artificial wombs are about to be with us: This could transform the abortion debate
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Poland violated rights of woman who wanted abortion, ECHR rules
Poland violated the rights of a pregnant woman by interfering in her ability to get an abortion, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled.
France records highest number of abortions in more than 30 years
New data published by French statistical body the Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) show that in 2022, France had its highest level…
Tusk calls for march against Polish abortion laws ahead of national elections
A political storm has erupted in Poland over a woman being interrogated by the police after she took an abortion pill.
Hungarian minister dons Texas Stetson to charm US conservatives
Hungary’s outgoing Justice Minister has taken her charm offensive Stateside in the name of building conservative alliances. “Hello, Texas!
As much as Europe’s liberal elites abhor America’s divisive abortion fights, they are here already
Abortion has been a hugely divisive issue in the United States ever since the 1973 Roe v Wade judgment fifty years ago.
Challenges to Poland’s abortion law rejected by European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on June 8 rejected a series of applications challenging legislation on the abolition of eugenic abortions in Poland, on…
Pregnant trans man travels from Belgium to the Netherlands to have crowdfunded abortion
A Brussels-based trans man has had a crowd-funded abortion in the Netherlands after being refused an abortion in Belgium.