Nov 14, 2025
BBC
Scotland's abortion laws are "not fit for purpose" according to an expert group, which has called for legal recognition for a woman's right to choose.
Currently, an abortion is only legal before 24 weeks when two doctors agree that certain grounds have been met - such as a risk to the mother's physical or mental health. An independent report recommends that these grounds are dropped, and doctors' agreement should only be required for late-term abortions after 24 weeks.
November 14, 2025
Ipas
The High Court in Malawi has ruled that adolescent survivors of sexual violence have the right to access abortion services in both public and private health facilities. Previously, abortion was only legally permitted to save a pregnant person’s life.
Ipas Malawi welcomed this landmark decision affirming the right of women and girls to sexual and reproductive health. This win is the result of relentless advocacy by Ipas and partner organizations in a country that has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Africa, despite unsafe abortion accounting for 18% of maternal deaths.
Continued: https://www.ipas.org/news/malawi-high-court-approves-abortion-access-survivors-sexual-violence/
By : Ijeoma Nwanosike
13 November 2025
A new study by the Leadership Initiative for Youth Empowerment (LIFE) has revealed that unsafe abortions account for about 37 per cent of all pregnancy-related deaths among women in Lagos slum communities, prompting urgent calls for government and community intervention.
The research focused on Oshodi-Isolo and Mushin local government areas, highlighting deep-rooted socio-economic, cultural, and health system failures that continue to fuel preventable maternal deaths.
How Ethiopians are resisting U.S.-backed disinformation on abortions.
By Maya Misikir, a reporter and editor based in Ethiopia.
November 13, 2025
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—It’s the faces of the women and girls receiving treatment for botched abortions that still haunt nurse Hanna, 47 years into her nursing career.
“They had a look in their eyes. It was a plea to be saved from their misery,” she said in Amharic, during an interview last month.
Continued: https://archive.is/RQ7rE
(https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/13/ethiopia-abortion-fight-propaganda-america-trump-pro-life/)
Nov 13, 2025
Notes on Poland
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Poland violated the rights of a pregnant woman who had to travel abroad to obtain an abortion after her foetus was diagnosed with a birth defect. It is the second time that the court has issued a judgment against Poland relating to its near-total abortion ban.
The ECHR found that the woman’s right to private and family life was violated by the legal uncertainty created by the delay between the Polish Constitutional Tribunal (TK) ruling of October 2020, which banned abortion in cases of birth defects, and its implementation by the government over three months later.
Bingo card-style game, where supporters encouraged to ‘buy’ words and phrases linked to contentious abortion bill, condemned by crossbench MLCs as a ‘grift’ that trivialised debate
Tory Shepherd
Thu 13 Nov 2025
A “fun little game” launched by the anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe to raise funds during an emotional debate over late-pregnancy abortion in South Australia has been referred for investigation.
Howe, who has worked with conservative politicians to introduce various state and federal bills to water down abortion rights, said the bingo card-style game was a fundraiser for an anti-abortion war chest.
Amendment would have watered down law to allow abortion only where it would save life of mother or another foetus, or for significant risk of abnormalities
Tory Shepherd
Thu 13 Nov 2025
A bill to restrict access to abortion after 22 weeks and six days has been defeated in the South Australian parliament.
The former One Nation MLC Sarah Game, who is now an independent, worked with the controversial anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe on the legislation that went before the SA parliament on Wednesday night.
It was voted down by 11 votes to eight.
What Friends Are For sheds light on history of abortion in Canada
By: Simon Fuller
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025
Harriet Zaidman’s latest book, her sixth, sharpens the focus on abortion — a subject that remains the subject of much discussion and polarization, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court 2022 overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.
What Friends Are For, published by Heritage House … is described in a publisher’s press release as a “nuanced, important, and unfortunately timely (young adult) novel set in 1983 at the height of Canada’s abortion debate, following a young girl grappling with an unplanned pregnancy.”
By Eva Blandis, Kathryn Bermingham
Nov 12, 2025
A new push to change South Australia's abortion laws to limit terminations after 23 weeks has been voted down in state parliament's upper house.
The vote was carried out at 9pm, with 11 members voting against and eight members voting for.
Upper House MP Sarah Game, an independent formerly of One Nation, launched the bill in September to place limits on abortions after 23 weeks.
Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-12/sa-abortion-voted-down/106001338
The Insider
12 November 2025
Authorities in Russia’s Smolensk Region are planning to severely restrict access to abortions in private clinics, governor Vasily Anokhin announced on Nov. 10. The official insisted the measure was only a “recommendation,” but based on the experience of other regions, such regulations make it virtually impossible for women to terminate a pregnancy absent a clear medical justification. According to The Insider’s estimates, more than 30 Russian regions now enforce either full or partial bans on abortion procedures.
The starting point for restricting abortion rights in many Russian regions has been the adoption of local laws banning the so-called “inducement to artificial termination of pregnancy.” Smolensk adopted such a law in May 2024, defining “inducement” as “taking actions or putting forward demands with the aim of compelling a pregnant woman to artificially terminate her pregnancy by persuasion, proposals, bribery, [or] deception.”
Continued: https://theins.ru/en/news/286765
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