If the Supreme Court overturns its 1973 ruling legalising abortion, American women’s access to the procedure will be severely restricted
The future of abortion rights in the United States is in doubt, with the Supreme Court scheduled to rule on the issue in June. Abortions after six weeks have been illegal in Texas since September. Many women seeking abortions are running out of time
Abortion is illegal in Malawi, unless the mother’s life is at risk, but that doesn’t stop an estimated 140,000 women per year having unsafe terminations that leave 12,000 women dead and countless others permanently scarred
Women’s rights activists have called a national strike and thousands of people have joined demonstrations to protest a decision by Poland’s Constitutional Court to ban nearly all abortions
South Korea’s top court is expected to respond soon to a petition asking it to declare the country’s criminal ban on abortions unconstitutional
Statistics on the number of abortions at the hospital are not kept. Doctors can only say roughly that it is less than before. There used to be lot of abortions, remembers Kazlouskaya, explaining each was noted on a yellow form and collected in a folder that was stored away in a filing cabinet