Several European countries have recently started taking steps to protect access to abortion.
France is one of these, with a bill having made its way through the legislature to enshrine the …

October 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the Abortion Act. The original Act was based on a
desire to end backstreet abortions and protect women against the potential harm of …

A woman from the Republic of Ireland has successfully challenged the country's restrictive
abortion legislation at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). 1 The woman was in …

Megani is a young teenage patient who suffered a stillbirth at 28 weeks, leading to a year
long police investigation dropped only after postmortem tests found that her pregnancy was …

Canada is one of the few countries in the world—China is another—that has decriminalized
abortion. In Canada, there are no legislative or judicial restrictions whatsoever on abortion …

The US Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling triggered a global debate about access to abortion
and the legislative models governing it. In the United States, there was a sudden reversal of …

The papers included in this supplement were first given at a meeting, The New Ethics of
Abortion, organised by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) in Senate House at …

The two French Parliamentary chambers met on 4 March 2024 in the Congress of Versailles
and voted in favour of the constitutional bill to include abortion as a fundamental right in law …

The Republic of Ireland has some of the most restrictive abortion legislation in the world
which grants to the 'unborn'an equal right to life to that of the pregnant woman. This article …

Since 1967 women living in the UK—or, at least, Great Britain1—have been able to access
services that enable them to terminate a pregnancy. In the intervening years, many other …