abortion

Kenyan women wait to receive family planning and reproductive health services at the Family Health Options Kenya

Kenyan health providers call Trump's global gag rule 'a death sentence' for women

President Donald Trump cut US funding to any international organization that administers or even discusses abortion with its patients. A Kenyan health group is traveling across the US to tell Americans how that rule affects the country.

Kenyan health providers call Trump's global gag rule 'a death sentence' for women
Denisse

Meet the women who escorted Jane Doe to her abortion

Meet the women who escorted Jane Doe to her abortion
Chile eases on abortions

Chile eases one of the world's strictest abortion bans

Chile eases one of the world's strictest abortion bans
Chinese boy bundled up. Critics say that the UNFPA has supported coercive abortions of women who tried to have more than one child

Trump officials say the UN supports coercive abortion in China. But does it?

Trump officials say the UN supports coercive abortion in China. But does it?
In Buddhist Myanmar, there's a view that abortion is wrong because "human life happens only in a blue moon, so we shouldn't waste a life like this."

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

Providing safe illegal abortions in Myanmar is a ‘karmic balance,’ says one doctor
Teen pregnancy in Nicaragua is mostly caused by machismo culture and a lack of sex ed.

Nicaragua's teen pregnancy rate soars

In the absence of any sex ed, advocates are trying to get teenagers to take matters into their own hands, and teach each other.

Nicaragua's teen pregnancy rate soars
Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children.

Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives

In Nicaragua, abortion is illegal, even if a woman's life is at risk. But some abortion rights advocates claim the government is quietly turning a blind eye to certain abortions, including in the case of women infected with the Zika virus.

Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives
Ianka Mikaelle Barbosa, 18, with Sophia, 18 days old, who was born with microcephaly, at her home in Campina Grande, Brazil.

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

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

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

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

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.

These activists are putting a face to a taboo word in Ireland: abortion
Alessandro Gomes, who has microcephaly, has his head measured by a neurologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital in Recife, Brazil, Jan. 26.

The Zika virus has reignited Brazil’s abortion debate

In a country with restrictive abortion laws, the Zika virus is changing the debate.

The Zika virus has reignited Brazil’s abortion debate
March against house speaker Eduardo Cunha's abortion bill on International Day to End Violence Against Women in Rio de Janeiro

A mother’s fight for abortion rights in evangelical Brazil

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.

A mother’s fight for abortion rights in evangelical Brazil
Scandal

Why we need more shame-free TV characters who reflect the reality of abortion

The internet has been buzzing about Olivia Pope’s abortion on ABC’s "Scandal." But if nearly one-third of American women have an abortion by age 45, why don’t we see more female characters make the same decision?

Why we need more shame-free TV characters who reflect the reality of abortion
Planned Parenthood

There's a long legacy of violence against abortion providers in the US

Attempted murders, bombings, arson and other violence are common at abortion clinics in the US.

There's a long legacy of violence against abortion providers in the US
A member of the New York Police Department stands outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in New York, a day after the shootings in Colorado Springs.

Is the Colorado Springs shooting at a Planned Parenthood Clinic an ‘act of terrorism?’

Presidential contender Mike Huckabee is one of several public figures calling the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs an "act of domestic terrorism." But is it?

Is the Colorado Springs shooting at a Planned Parenthood Clinic an ‘act of terrorism?’
Robert L. Dear

Most attacks in US carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists

Police are still investigating Friday's attack on a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colo., but they say Robert Dear is responsible. If that's the case, it represents just the latest example of a white male being behind a mass shooting.

Most attacks in US carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists