Body Politics: The struggle for access to reproductive rights

"I didn't think I'd be able to get pregnant the first time I had sex."

‘I didn’t think I’d be able to get pregnant the first time I had sex’

Aumpon Paloa didn't realize she was pregnant until she was about seven months along, which was about the same time her high school teacher noticed and recommended she leave school.

Health

How Filipino moms endure a maternity ward that's like 'a blaring supermarket deli counter'

The World

April 01, 2015

Sonia Narang recently returned from reporting on reproductive rights in the Philippines for Across Women's Lives. She visited Manila's Fabella Hospital and shows us through her photography what it's like for Filipino women to endure one of the world's most crowded maternity wards.

Justice

Purvi Patel faces 20 years in prison for feticide and child neglect

The World

March 30, 2015

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03/31/2015 - 3:30pm

Indian American mother Purvi Patel already had become Indiana's first woman convicted of feticide, for what she said was a miscarriage. Now she's been sentenced to 20 years in prison, alarming advocates for immigrants and reproductive rights.

Health

Providing safe illegal abortions in Myanmar is a ‘karmic balance,’ says one doctor

The World

September 08, 2016

Abortion is illegal in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, but many women still seek access. Illegal abortions are a leading cause of maternal death there.

Body Politics: The struggle for access to reproductive rights

The Supreme Court just gave a big victory to US abortion rights activists

Agence France-Presse

June 27, 2016

The US Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Texas law restricting abortion clinics, handing a major victory to the "pro-choice" camp in the country's most important ruling on the divisive issue in a generation.

Global Politics

Can your vote be a 'sin'? Abortion brings the church into Peru's presidential race

GlobalPost

March 31, 2016

An archbishop says Catholics can't vote for candidates who support abortion rights, and starts a firestorm.

Health

A new bill aims to make Brazil's abortion law even tougher

GlobalPost

March 26, 2016

As Zika spreads, a Brazilian lawmaker is pushing for harsher jail sentences for abortions in cases of microcephaly.

Health

India's condom showrooms: Where women can talk freely about sex and health

The World

March 18, 2016

In a country considered prudish, who would walk into a store that sells only sex stuff? Just about everybody.

Health

Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world

The World

February 27, 2016

There are only six countries in the world that ban abortion under any circumstances. Four of them are in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Belief

These activists are putting a face to a taboo word in Ireland: abortion

The World

February 24, 2016

Irish voters approved a constitutional ban on abortion in 1983. Thousands of Irish women have traveled abroad for the procedure since then — and there's a new movement to get them to tell their stories.

Belief

Abortion: What some Mexicans wish Pope Francis would take head on

The World

February 17, 2016

In a country where abortion is illegal in all but Mexico City, some women seek alternatives that they call lifelines.

Justice

The coming showdown: A year for reproductive rights

ProPublica

January 11, 2016

Two potentially sweeping Supreme Court cases set the stage for a seismic shift in the battle over abortion and contraception in 2016.

Justice

A mother’s fight for abortion rights in evangelical Brazil

The World

December 15, 2015

One woman in Rio de Janeiro has personally discovered how much harder and more expensive it is to access an abortion in Brazil now than it was when she was younger. And she says that's a concern for Brazil's democracy.

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