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The move is a major policy shift in country’s male-dominated parliament and brings Japan into line with more than 90 other countriesJapan is to permit the sale of emergency contraceptives without prescription on a trial basis, weeks after it approved t…
In today’s newsletter: On the anniversary of Roe v Wade’s overturning, one woman tells her story of being forced to carry a baby to termSign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. A year ago tomorrow, the US supreme court overturn…
Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee saysPeru violated the rights of a 13-year-old girl who had been repeatedly raped by her father by denying her an abortion afte…
Emergency contraception, HIV-prevention and abortion drugs are locked in a warehouse in Khartoum – leaving women to turn to desperate measuresRape survivors in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, are struggling to get hold of emergency contraception and ab…
Pro-choice groups condemn rare enforcement of country’s total ban on terminationsA woman in Malta has been charged in court for having an abortion, in a rare enforcement of the country’s total ban on terminations.The Women’s Rights Foundation of Malta …
US supreme court has preserved access to mifepristone for now, but blue states announce plans to safeguard abortion rightsDespite a reprieve by the US supreme court, a growing number of Democratic states are stockpiling abortion pills as the legal figh…
Temporary pause on lower court rulings gives court additional time to consider a longer staySign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailDanco Laboratories has said that they will continue to distribute the abortion pill, according to an…
Mifepristone will lose its FDA approval this week unless an appeals court intervenes in a case likely to reach the supreme courtFDA authorization for a key abortion drug could be nullified after Friday, unless an appeals court acts on a Biden administr…
Underfunded services resulting in more women choosing cheaper at-home abortion pill, study findsOverstretched and underfunded abortion services in England and Wales are leaving women feeling pressured into opting for the cheaper at-home pill rather tha…
Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling on Friday aiming to suspend the FDA’s approval of abortion drug mifepristoneTexas-based federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Friday issued a ruling aiming to suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepri…