By Okon Taye – Abuja Accessing abortion care is one of the problems women in Nigeria are facing which has led to maternal deaths. The Performance Monitoring for Action, PMA research has revealed that 10 per cent of women had no direct interaction with the abortion provider. This forces them to rely on partners, friends, […]

Thousands of anti-abortion protesters, many of them mobilized by Catholic or evangelical groups, demonstrated on Saturday across Argentina against a government-backed new bill to legalize abortion. The largest group congregated in Buenos Aires before the Congress, which is expected in the coming week to begin debating legislation on a matter that has bitterly divided the […]

Hundreds of people demonstrated again in Warsaw on Saturday against the tightening of Poland’s abortion law. The police asked the demonstrators to leave via loudspeaker and tried to surround them, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported. “We have a right to protest,” the crowd chanted. The participants carried banners with slogans such as: “Don’t tell me […]

Brazil expanded its requirements Friday for rape victims seeking an abortion, including a rule that medical staff must tell the woman she can see the embryo or fetus via ultrasound. The new regulations published by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s health ministry also stipulate that the rape “must be reported to police” regardless of the woman’s […]

By Simon Abah History always repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce — Karl Marx.  THIS article was inspired by happenings in Louisiana, United States recently when a conservative Judge and Chief Justice, John Roberts, a Donald Trump nominee, sided with liberal judges and gave the decisive vote to preserve […]