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  Trump administration revokes Biden-era emergency abortion guidance for US hospitals

  World | June 04, 2025 6:40 IST

  The 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 | February 15, 2025 8:18 IST

  Planned 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 | March 08, 2024 18:19 IST

  The 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 | January 31, 2024 10:03 IST

  After 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 | September 07, 2023 7:51 IST

  Mexico 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 | July 02, 2023 14:48 IST

  Benin 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 | April 22, 2023 11:04 IST

  The 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 | August 07, 2022 14:56 IST

  Abortion 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 | July 22, 2022 10:15 IST

  Abortion 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 | July 10, 2022 8:06 IST

  Abortion 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 | July 02, 2022 14:26 IST

  The 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 | June 28, 2022 9:58 IST

  Some 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 | June 26, 2022 7:53 IST

  Trudeau 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 | June 25, 2022 12:58 IST

  Can 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 | June 25, 2022 8:35 IST

  A 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 | June 25, 2022 7:02 IST

  Joe 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 | June 25, 2022 6:50 IST

  The 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 | February 22, 2022 7:40 IST

  Now 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 | October 08, 2021 10:11 IST

  The 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 | October 03, 2021 12:39 IST

  The 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.