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Unsafe abortion

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2011, a graffiti against revealing the gender of unborn fetuses stands outside a clinic in Morena in the Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. 

India’s abortion law still lacks a rights-based approach, gynecologist says

Abortion

India’s abortion law is progressive, but it is also problematic, says Dr. Suchitra Dalvie, a practicing gynecologist in Mumbai, India. The co-founder and coordinator of the Asia Safe Abortion Partnership unpacked the law and recent amendments to it with The World’s reporter Chhavi Sachdev.

A woman wearing a yellow shirt holds a toddler in her arms near a mural.

Activists in Kenya challenge abortion ban in court

A model of a fetus

The South Korean government is reviewing its 1950s abortion ban

Health & Medicine
Public sector doctors

A Dutch physician is making abortion drugs more accessible to women around the world — by mail

Health
The World

Illegal Abortion in Mexico

The World

Illegal Abortion in Mexico

Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in the run-up to this fall’s UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. Supporters say safe and legal abortion is essential to reducing high birth rates and improving the status of women . . .while opponents, especially the Vatican, have fought any efforts to ease restrictions […]

The World

Safer abortions in Zambia

Health & Medicine

In the African nation of Zambia, abortion is legal, but few medical clinics offer the procedure and women therefore try it themselves. A hospital in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, aims to save women’s lives by making abortion safer and more widely available.