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  • +++     Ireland – ‘How to keep abortion numbers down? Free contraception and better education’
  • +++     Ireland – Harris told of fear over abortion ‘barriers’ in rural areas
  • +++     Ireland – Anti-abortion activist launches new website following injunction
  • +++     Jamaica – ‘Through Pregnancy and Abortion…I Obeyed Like a Robot’: Abuse Survivor Tells of Predator Priest
  • +++     BBC’s Action Line adds abortion information, but it’s hard to find
  • +++     Argentina – Abortion rights campaigners flood the streets of Buenos Aires for election-year protest
  • +++     Power to terminate pregnancy key to woman’s right to health
  • +++     Desperate measures: Pakistani women seek abortions as birth control
  • +++     Ireland – Gardaí examine CCTV over anti-abortion graffiti at GP surgery
  • +++     Ireland – Simon Harris slams US anti-abortion group tactics as ‘manipulative’ and reveals plans for exclusion zone laws

Abortion rights around the world

Abortion rights around the world

Janet MCEVOY
AFP•June 14, 2018

Paris (AFP) - Abortion, which Argentine lawmakers on Thursday voted to legalise, is banned in some 20 countries worldwide, while others have highly restrictive laws in place.

Here is a snapshot of the global situation:

Continued: https://www.yahoo.com/news/abortion-rights-around-world-155601027.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=ma

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