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