Abortion Laws
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Trump administration revokes Biden-era emergency abortion guidance for US hospitals
World | Jun 04, 2025, 06:40 AM ISTThe Trump administration has revoked a Biden-era policy that required hospitals to perform emergency abortions to stabilise patients facing serious pregnancy-related health risks. The 2022 guidance was issued following the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Abortions to resume in Missouri after judge temporarily blocks regulations
World | Feb 15, 2025, 08:18 AM ISTPlanned Parenthood said most of its facilities could not comply with some of the licensing rules, including "medically irrelevant" size requirements for hallways, rooms and doors.
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France inscribes right to abortion in its constitution on International Women's Day | WATCH
World | Mar 08, 2024, 06:19 PM ISTThe French parliament on Monday overwhelmingly supported a measure to enshrine the right to abortion in its Constitution by a 780-72 majority. The 2022 overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling by the US Supreme Court prompted France to push the measure.
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France approves historic bill in first step to include abortion rights in Constitution
World | Jan 31, 2024, 10:03 AM ISTAfter approval in the National Assembly, the bill now requires a vote in the French Senate, where a conservative majority has questioned the need for constitutionalisation of abortion rights. After this, the bill needs to be approved by a three-fifths majority of a joint session of the parliament.
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Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalises abortion nationwide, says criminal charges 'unconstitutional'
World | Sep 07, 2023, 07:51 AM ISTMexico has joined Latin American countries of Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay and Argentina, who have legalised abortion practices.
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African conservatives to ban abortion despite women facing insult for becoming pregnant pre-marriage
World | Jul 02, 2023, 02:48 PM ISTBenin legalized abortion less than a year before the US Supreme Court ruling, though Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, allows abortion only to save the mother’s life.
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US Supreme Court protects access to widely used abortion pill
World | Apr 22, 2023, 11:04 AM ISTThe justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug Mifepristone.
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SC insists on 'forward-looking' approach, favours to include unmarried women under abortion law
India | Aug 07, 2022, 02:56 PM ISTAbortion laws in India: A Bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and JB Pardiwala said it will interpret the MTP Act and the related rules to see if unmarried women could be allowed to abort up to 24-week pregnancy on medical advice.
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'Unmarried women have right to safe abortion': SC allows termination of pregnancy at 24 weeks
India | Jul 22, 2022, 10:15 AM ISTAbortion in India: The top court said, "a woman's right to reproductive choice is an inseparable part of her personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution and she has a sacrosanct right to bodily integrity".
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Joe Biden signs executive order on abortion rights challenging state laws
World | Jul 10, 2022, 08:06 AM ISTAbortion Ban: Joe Biden repeated his sharp criticism of the Supreme Court’s reasoning in striking down what had been a half-century constitutional right to abortion.
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Texas Supreme Court blocks order that resumed abortions
World | Jul 02, 2022, 02:26 PM ISTThe whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially cancelling appointments again - all in the span of a week.
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Instagram, Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills following overturn of Roe vs Wade
World | Jun 28, 2022, 09:58 AM ISTSome posts even offered to mail the prescriptions to women living in states that now ban the procedure. Almost immediately, Facebook and Instagram began removing some of these posts.
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US abortion ruling could mean 'loss of other rights': Canadian PM Justin Trudeau
World | Jun 26, 2022, 07:53 AM ISTTrudeau called the court’s decision “horrific” and voiced concern that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry.
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What is Roe vs Wade, ruling overturned by US Supreme Court striking abortion rights? EXPLAINED
World | Jun 25, 2022, 12:58 PM ISTCan a woman choose to keep or abort her baby? The question has always been discussed in the United States. Sexual and reproductive health rights activists saw a big win back in 1973, with the Roe vs Wade ruling.
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US media companies including Netflix, Disney to cover travel costs for employees seeking abortion
World | Jun 25, 2022, 08:35 AM ISTA Netflix spokesperson told 'Variety' that the streaming service does offer travel reimbursement coverage for full-time US employees and their dependents who need to travel for cancer treatment, transplants, gender-affirming care, or abortion.
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'Sad day for America', says Prez Joe Biden after US Supreme Court strikes abortion rights
World | Jun 25, 2022, 07:02 AM ISTJoe Biden called on Americans to elect more Democrats who would safeguard rights upended by the court’s decision.
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'States can ban abortion': US Supreme Court rules
World | Jun 25, 2022, 06:50 AM ISTThe ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
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Colombia’s highest court legalizes abortion up to 24 weeks
World | Feb 22, 2022, 07:40 AM ISTNow women in Colombia will be able to get abortions until the 24th week of their pregnancy without having to provide any justification. After the 24th week of pregnancy, abortion will still face restrictions.
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Abortions resume in some Texas clinics after judge halts law
World | Oct 08, 2021, 10:11 AM ISTThe Texas law is just one that has set up the biggest test of abortion rights in the U.S. in decades, and it is part of a broader push by Republicans nationwide to impose new restrictions on abortion.
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Texas Abortion Law: Women’s March targets Supreme Court
World | Oct 03, 2021, 12:39 PM ISTThe day before the march, the Biden administration urged a federal judge to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September.