Abortion: an NGO moored a ship off Guatemala
A Dutch NGO replicated the “Abortion Ship” operation. This time in Guatemala where access to abortion is very limited. The ...
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Abortion: the offense of digital obstruction definitively adopted
The deputies adopted at last reading the text penalizing the offense of obstructing abortion on the Internet. The LRs lodged ...
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A toll-free number for information on abortion
© ThinkstockThey are 220,000 per year to use it in France. Yet access toAbortion (IVG) remains complex, according to the ...
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Abortion: the Netherlands and Canada ready to help American NGOs
Canada plans to contribute to the Dutch international fund to compensate for the halt in US funding for international NGOs ...
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IVG: the extension of the offense of obstruction adopted by the deputies
French deputies adopted a new reading on Thursday a socialist bill which extends the offense of obstructing voluntary termination of ...
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How to increase access to abortion
To guarantee access to abortion, the High Council for Equality wants the offense of obstruction to be extended and the ...
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Zika: one in two Brazilian women avoids getting pregnant
With Zika, more than half of Brazilian women preferred not to get pregnant, or had an abortion. Microcephaly, brain abnormalities, ...
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One in four pregnancies end in abortion
© fotoliaThe new global and regional estimates of the incidence of abortion from the World Health Organization have just been ...
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Medicated abortion: the pain is often underestimated
A quarter of women who undergo a medical abortion have severe pain on day 3, and 8 out of ten ...
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Abortion: the government is fighting against an anti-abortion site
© ivg.gouv.frThe government has declared war on them. Anti sites Abortion (IVG) are flourishing on the internet and their ranking ...
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United States: medical abortions are gaining ground
For the first time, the share of medical abortions equals that of surgical abortions in the United States, reports Reuters.In ...
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Abortion: abortion is (finally) legal in Argentina
© Getty ImagesThe start of 2021 is marked by excellent news: voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) is now authorized in ...
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Poland: MEPs reject abortion ban
In the aftermath of demonstrations to defend the right to abortion, the conservatives voted against its ban. The final vote ...
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IVG: the fight of Médecins du Monde in prohibitive countries
INTERVIEW - In countries which restrict access to abortion, MdM is lobbying legislators and in the field with women and ...
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Poland: Parliament decides on abortion ban
The Polish Parliament examines two bills on September 23. One bans abortion, the other would relax the rules. The first ...
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Legal deadline for abortion: the Senate rejects the extension to 14 weeks
© Getty ImagesLast April, the High Authority for Health (HAS) gave the green light to extend access to voluntary termination ...
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United States: the American Supreme Court reaffirms the right to abortion
By rejecting a Texas law aimed at restricting women's access to abortion, the US Supreme Court reaffirms the fundamental right ...
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Zika: abortion requests have doubled in Brazil
Requests for abortion have increased in American countries since the start of the Zika epidemic. Many countries affected by the ...
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Abortion threatened in Poland: French associations mobilized
Already very limited in Poland, a bill provides for a total ban on abortion and to penalize with heavy penalties ...
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IVG: all acts related to the intervention reimbursed at 100%
Social Security will reimburse 100% for all exams as part of an IV from this Friday. This concerns consultations, ultrasounds ...
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Rape, malformations: Chile authorizes conditional abortion
Chile has re-authorized abortion, banned since the Pinochet dictatorship, in cases of rape, fetal malformations and health risks for the ...
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Abortion: improving access to abortion
On the eve of the anniversary date of the promulgation of the law legalizing the abortion in France, the Minister ...
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India opens debate on selective abortions
In India, a minister is proposing to make fetal sex detection tests compulsory. She wants to fight against selective abortions, ...
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The manifesto of 420 doctors in favor of abortion
In a few days, the 69th United Nations General Assembly will take stock of 20 years of action for sexual ...
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Abortion would not harm women’s mental health
© ThinkstockIn France,Abortion (IVG) awakens fairly stubborn prejudices in some people who condemn this right, granted to French women in ...
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Abortion pill: the cry of alarm from six professors of gynecology
© iStock While on the 250,000 abortions performed each year in France, 54% are medicated, six professors of gynecology sound ...
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In Ecuador, abortion will not be decriminalized
© GettyImagesIt is The world which revealed the result of the vote of Ecuadorian deputies on the decriminalization of abortion, ...
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Abortion pill: the Ministry of Health signs the reimbursement at 65%
© iStockThe Minister of Health, Marisol Touraine, signed the reimbursement of Miffee, an abortion pill whose use worries French gynecologists, ...
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Medical abortion and surgical abortion: two abortion techniques
© ThinkstockHow does a voluntary termination of pregnancy work?Abortion)? In France, the right to abortion has been guaranteed by law ...
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Abortion, contraception: protecting women in Europe
© ThinkstockThere are gaps in some European states with regard to contraception and abortion, depending on the new conclusions of ...
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