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FILE: Pro-life protesters stand near the gate of the Texas state capitol at a protest outside the Texas state capitol on 29 May 2021 in Austin, Texas. Picture: Sergio Flores/AFP

Abortion laws

EXPLAINER: Overturning Wade vs Roe ruling could set the U.S back by decades

By Bernadette Wicks

The U.S Supreme Court is mulling overturning its findings on its landmark Roe v Wade ruling - a 1973 case that paved the way for women's reproductive rights...

  •  In this file photo taken on 18 January 2019, pro-choice activists hold signs alongside anti-abortion activists participating in the "March for Life," an annual event to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v Wade, which legalized abortion in the US, outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

    What do abortion rights look like around the world?

    Tiny San Marino, which sits on a mountainside in the centre of Italy, is one of the few European countries where terminating a pregnancy is still illegal.

    275 days ago
  • FILE: The director of a public hospital in the city of Tapachula had refused to carry out the procedure because the minor was more than 90 days' pregnant, the court said. Picture: Supplied.

    Mexico top court opens way to late-term abortion after rape

    The top court declared unconstitutional an article of the penal code of the southern state of Chiapas that prevented the victim having an abortion.

    355 days ago
  • Gibraltar is a British enclave at the southernmost tip of Spain. Picture: Pixabay.com

    Gibraltar votes 'yes' to easing abortion laws

    At present, abortion is banned in Gibraltar on pain of life imprisonment, although such a penalty has not been applied in modern times.

    367 days ago
  • Picture: 123rf.com

    Gibraltar to hold postponed abortion referendum

    The proposed changes came after Britain's Supreme Court ruled in June 2018 that Northern Ireland's abortion laws, which at the time were almost identical to Gibraltar's, were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

    369 days ago
  • Handout photo released by Argentina's Presidency of Argentine President Alberto Fernandez gesturing while announcing a judiciary reform bill at Casa Rosada government palace in Buenos Aires on 29 July 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Picture: AFP.

    Argentina moves ahead with abortion legalisation

    Following years of demonstrations, Congress began a historic debate in 2018 under then-president Mauricio Macri that ended with the Chamber of Deputies voting to legalise abortion, only for the Senate to reject it.

    608 days ago
  •  In this file photo taken on 18 January 2019, pro-choice activists hold signs alongside anti-abortion activists participating in the "March for Life," an annual event to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v Wade, which legalized abortion in the US, outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

    US Supreme Court rejects key challenge to abortion rights

    The conservative-leaning court split 5-4 in the decision overruling a state law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

    728 days ago
  • Actress Tiffany Haddish. Picture: @tiffanyhaddish/Instagram.

    Tiffany Haddish slams anti-abortion laws

    Tiffany Haddish was set to take to the stage at the city's Fox Theater on 22 June, but revealed over the weekend she had cancelled the show in retaliation to the HB481 law

    1102 days ago
  • Picture: @netflix/Twitter

    Netflix to 'rethink' investment in Georgia if abortion law takes effect

    The company was the first major Hollywood producer to publicly comment on calls by some for an industry boycott of Georgia.

    1126 days ago
  • Actress-activist Alyssa Milano. Picture: @AlyssaMilano/Facebook.com.

    ‘Sex strike’ call over Georgia abortion law fuels Hollywood boycott debate

    Strict new abortion laws passed in the southern state have prompted calls not only for a boycott of filming there - but for a sex strike.

    1142 days ago
  • Picture: EWN.

    [LISTEN] Why abortion pills are still in demand on the black market

    CapeTalk’s Kieno Kammies speaks to Professor Catriona Macleod from SARChI about why these pills are still in high demand on the black market despite abortion being legal.

    1245 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis gives the Christmas Eve Mass on 24 December 2017. Picture: AFP

    Abortion to avoid birth defects is like Nazi eugenics: pope

    Francis made the comparison in a long, off-the-cuff address to a members of a confederation of Italian family associations.

    1471 days ago
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