The authors of this study concluded that the large variation of termination of pregnancy rates between EU member states suggests that rates may be reduced in some countries without restricting women’s access to termination. From BJOG.
A constitutional amendment that would have defined a fertilized egg as a person failed on the ballot in Mississippi on 8 November, the Washington Post reports.
A thought-provoking article in the Belfast Telegraph reviews the consequences of the ‘messy’ abortion law for what we know about the extent of abortion in Northern Ireland.
The American Civil Liberties Union and four other groups sued to challenge a new North Carolina law requiring abortion providers to display and describe ultrasound images of a fetus, the Los Angeles Times reports.