Power Of ProtestUnprecedented Protests Force Poland to Pause Abortion Ban Women have been leading massive protests in response to a Polish court ruling that would outlaw most abortions. By Aditi Murti
No More Forced BirthsTrump Administration Plans to Extend Policy That Cuts Funding To Global Health Projects Providing Abortions Organizations that continue to promote or perform abortions lose all U.S. health aid under the policy -- potentially affecting more than 1,300 global health projects in Africa and South Asia. By Aditi Murti
Basic Services1.3 Million Indian Women Lost Access To Birth Control, Abortions During Pandemic: NGO According to the report, 30 percent of Indian women who sought abortions said the clinic in their area was closed. By Devrupa Rakshit
Abortion Is A RightRwanda Releases 52 Women Jailed for Seeking Abortions, But Does Not Reverse Punitive Anti‑Abortion Laws Rather than arresting women for seeking abortions and pardoning them, Rwanda could simply legalize abortion. By Aditi Murti
Don't Make It WorseThe Most Traumatic Thing About Abortions Is the Judgment Women describe the processes surrounding an abortion as carrying more trauma than the abortion itself. By Rajvi Desai
A Fundamental RightUS Urges UN To Drop Abortion As An Essential Service From Covid19 Response Plan The UN had presented abortion as an essential healthcare service in its Covid19 Response Plan. By Devrupa Rakshit
Don't Abort AbortionsWHO: Abortion Is an Essential Healthcare Service During Covid19 Pandemic Abortions cannot be denied even to individuals with confirmed Covid19 infections, the WHO stated. By Devrupa Rakshit
Expanded RightsArgentina on Track to Become Largest Latin American Country to Legalize Abortion Abortion is legal in only three other countries in the highly Roman Catholic region. By Liesl Goecker
Judgement DayIndian Women Seeking Abortions Are Petitioning the Courts, Even When They Don’t Need To By continuing to hear petitions for abortions that are within the legal limits, the judiciary is furthering misinformation around the MTP Act. By Anubha Rastogi
Taking StockIndia’s Abortion Laws: How Far They’ve Come, and How Far They Still Have to Go "As it stands today, abortion is not a woman’s right -- it is a conditional right." By Pallavi Prasad
Data SharingAbortions: Visualizing the Data on One of the Most Fraught Topics in Women’s Health Care 10 women die every day due to unsafe abortions in India. By Pallavi Prasad
Abort MissionIndian Chemists Are Not Stocking Medical Abortion Pills Anymore, Putting Millions of Women at Risk The central drug regulatory body recently banned pharmacies from selling abortion pills, further restricting access to safe abortion care. By Pallavi Prasad
No Uterus No OpinionNo, Ministry of Health, a Fetus Is Not a ‘Vulnerable Person’ Living, breathing women are people -- whom you render vulnerable and second-class when you take away their absolute right to abortion. By Pallavi Prasad
Informed ChoiceKnow Your Rights: Abortion in India A gynecologist and an advocate explain women's legal rights to abortion. By Anubhuti Matta
Male ManagementHiding Pills, Piercing Condoms, Stealthing — Birth Control Sabotage Takes Many Forms One in four women worldwide have faced interference with their reproductive autonomy. By Anubhuti Matta
Little Known FactsStudy: Denying a Woman an Abortion Can Have Long‑Term Physical Effects High cholesterol, asthma, persistent pain are just some side effects of denying abortion to women. By Anubhuti Matta
Fundamental RightsAbortion Is Legal in India, But Not Enough Women Know It Largest-ever study of abortion in India finds stigma a barrier, too. By The Swaddle Team
Moving BackwardsLate‑Term Abortion Equivalent to Murder, Says SC The court told the woman she would 'regret killing the baby' if she reconciled with her husband. By Urvija Banerji