Reproductive Rights and Democracy in Poland
On 22 October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal held it was unconstitutional for a women to access abortion ...
Abortion
Protecting Abortion, Respecting Disability: Moving Beyond “Fetal Impairment” Grounds in the Treaty Bodies
In June 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States narrowly maintained that states could not unduly burden ...
Intersectional Inequalities and Reproductive Rights: An India-Nepal Comparison
Recent judgments from India and Nepal are steeped in an intersectional understanding of inequality as a necessary ...
The Right to Privacy and Access to Abortion in a Post-Puttaswamy World
The new right to privacy could address the cultural and economic realities that exist within India which affect ...
Abortion Law Reform in India: One Step Forward & Two Steps Back
In an important development, the Lower House of the Indian Parliament on 17 March 2020 passed the Medical ...
India’s new Abortion Bill Falls Short of Protecting Reproductive Autonomy
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has introduced the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill ...
New Zealand’s Abortion Law Reform
During the 2017 New Zealand election campaign, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern pledged to decriminalise abortion if ...
The Rebirth of the Abortion Debate in Colombia
Early this March, the Colombian Constitutional Court, in a divided opinion (6-3), rejected on grounds of ...
The Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulation 2020
On 31 March 2020, The Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020 came into force. This is a landmark for the ...
UN Political Bodies and Voluntary Abortion: Back to 1994
Calls for the protection of reproductive and sexual health are included in an increasing number of resolutions of ...
The Korean Constitutional Court Judgment on the Constitutionality of an Abortion Ban
Since 1953, abortion has been illegal in Korea, except for cases of rape, incest, severe genetic disorders, ...
The ‘Unaffordable’ Pro-life Abortion Policy in Kenya
The narrow basis for the procurement of abortions in Kenya discriminates against women and girls based on their ...
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