Reproductive rights
The latest news and comment on reproductive rights
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Mike Pence proclaims 'life is winning again in America' at March for Life in DC‘Largest pro-life event in the world’ comes less than a week after millions marched against Trump, with a sitting vice-president attending for first time
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'Global gag rule' jeopardises future of Asia health initiatives, campaigners sayFunding for programmes from sanitation to nutrition will be subject to Trump’s far-reaching order, with huge implications for family planning providers
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'Global gag rule' on abortion puts $9bn in health aid at risk, activists sayDonald Trump’s executive order prompts fears for groups fighting Aids and Zika and working against child and maternal deaths
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After a weekend of inspiring protest, we had to watch the world’s most powerful man sign away the reproductive rights of women in developing countriesThis photo sums up Trump’s assault on women’s rights
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Americans cannot afford to treat feminism as something that can be pushed aside for a time and picked up later. Especially not nowWill Trump cause progressives to forget about women's rights?
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UK doctors to seek permission to create baby with DNA from three peopleSpecialists poised to offer mitochondrial replacement therapy if government’s fertility regulator approves the treatment
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Vagina Dispatches: what to know in the age of Donald Trump – videoPresident-elect Trump could put women’s reproductive rights back several decades – but knowledge is power. Vagina Dispatches will get you informed
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Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock designs trainer to fundraise for Planned ParenthoodRapper’s vegan trainer, through LA brand Keep, will ‘support a woman’s right to choose’ – as abortion comes under threat in US from Trump presidency
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Reproductive rights groups condemn Trump's nominee for health secretarySelection of congressman Tom Price poses threat to abortion rights and contraceptive coverage for millions of women, activists say
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Planned Parenthood is 100 years old, but the fight for reproductive rights goes onA century after Margaret Sanger was jailed for opening the first US birth control clinic, many women around the world are still deprived of the right to decide whether and when to have children
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Widow of Falklands war veteran wins legal battle to save frozen embryosHigh court victory gives Samantha Jefferies ‘last chance’ to have child by husband, who died after they started fertility treatment
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Experts search for explanation as two reports signal maternity crisis in TexasThe rate of maternal deaths has doubled in Texas in two years, and a single group is suffering with wild disproportionality: black women
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Politics is killing mothers in TexasThe state’s maternal death rate is the highest in the developed world. Those denying women reproductive healthcare on ideological grounds are to blame
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El Salvador abortion law change could leave women facing 50 years in jailRights groups condemn opposition proposal to put sentences for abortion on a par with penalty for aggravated murder with extreme cruelty
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Widow to take fight to save frozen embryos to courtSamantha and Clive Jefferies had been about to start fertility treatment with embryos when army veteran died suddenly
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Queensland doctor in abortion case says more teenagers face 'appalling' choiceObstetrician David MacFarlane says court ruling in the case of a 12-year-old girl sets a damaging precedent that makes law reform even more urgent
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Whether you’re pro-choice or not, the abortion debate is not about youIt is one thing to talk about your abortion in order to fight the stigma; it is quite another to think your experience should have any bearing on its legality
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After wave of anti-abortion laws, US sees signs of women taking drastic measuresFive years into a surge of anti-abortion legislation, experts say women are increasingly turning to dangerous methods to end their pregnancies
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We are one step closer to roving squads of child-catchersA report urging smokers, drinkers and obese people to think twice about becoming parents will be seized upon by the meddling classes
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IUDs, the pill and sterilisation: your experiences of contraceptionAccessing family planning is not easy for many women, who face cultural or religious opposition, supply shortages and doctors who won’t listen
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Polish anti-abortion activists borrow tactics from US in push for total banAs Poland debates the most restrictive abortion law in Europe, campaigners have invoked genocide – but pro-choice Poles too have imported imagery from the US
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Religious groups take on government in supreme court battle over contraceptionConservative justices warned on Wednesday of Obamacare ‘hijacking’ nonprofits’ choice to refuse birth control coverage in case dubbed Hobby Lobby 2
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Planned Parenthood defund bill cites dentists as reproductive care alternativeSchools also among options as Florida lawmakers aim to prevent state agencies from working with any organization that provides abortion care
'There will be more deaths': NGOs on Trump's anti-abortion rule