March 15, 2026
Lyndsey Telford, BBC News NI
A schoolgirl who was wrongly sent from Northern Ireland to England for a termination was traumatised by the ordeal, her mother has said.
She said the 18-year-old was forced to wait for a flight home after the procedure while bleeding and cramping.
The teenager was 18 weeks pregnant and could have been treated in Northern Ireland, but was sent to London due to confusion by the booking provider over the services available.
After MPs voted last year to change the law in England and Wales, members of the Lords will now put forward proposed amendments
Hannah Al-Othman
Sun 15 Mar 2026
MPs voted last year to end the criminalisation of women who terminate pregnancies outside the legal framework. It was hailed as the biggest step forward for reproductive rights in England and Wales in six decades.
On Wednesday evening, abortion law will again come under the parliamentary spotlight when members of the House of Lords put forward their proposed amendments to the legislation.
Nottinghamshire and Met police made arrests in past year, despite MPs voting to decriminalise in England and Wales
Hannah Al-Othman, The Guardian
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Vulnerable women in England are still being arrested and facing police investigations over suspected illegal pregnancy terminations, despite parliament backing changes to the law to decriminalise abortion.
Responding to a freedom of information request, Nottinghamshire police and the Metropolitan police confirmed they had arrested women suspected of illegal terminations between June last year and this January.
March 15, 2026
For 21-year-old John Alexander, being against abortion came before finding faith. As a teenager at school in Buckinghamshire, he was confused as to why most of his peers supported access to abortion. On social media he argued vocally against it.
Then, shortly after the pandemic, he became more interested in Christianity. He was raised in the Church of England (CofE), but thought the denomination was "dry" and involved "people sitting in pews not doing much". He was inspired by the young pastor at a Pentecostal Church which discussed social issues like abortion more than CofE churches, he says. He also watched social media videos of street preachers.
The least our members of parliament can do is change the law and remove the possibility of a custodial sentence being handed down by the courts in abortion cases.
15 March 2026
This leader has repeatedly argued for the legalisation of abortion and its regulation as a healthcare matter. Pregnant women should have the choice to make decisions on their life, their health and wellbeing as they deem fit. And that includes the choice to terminate their pregnancy.
We contend that every woman should have the right to terminate her pregnancy for whatever reason up to the point of the foetus’s viability outside the womb. Furthermore, at any stage of the pregnancy, the woman should have the choice to terminate her pregnancy if her life is on the line. Not everyone will make these choices but for those who want to, the option should be accessible, safe and legal.
A police report made by the consultant led to a woman being charged, convicted and given an 18-month jail term suspended for three years
15 March 2026
Claudia Calleja
Doctors are calling for clear, written guidance on their legal obligations when a woman is admitted to hospital with a suspected abortion.
The demand comes after a consultant was reportedly “scapegoated” for acting on what appears to have been incorrect legal advice that he was required to report the patient to the police.
The police report made by the consultant, who has since been named as obstetrician and gynaecologist Max Dingli, led to the woman being charged, convicted and given an 18-month jail term suspended for three years.
Continued: https://timesofmalta.com/article/scapegoated-doctors-demand-clarity-report-abortions.1125494
The Trump administration is no longer providing abortion care for veterans relying on VA healthcare—even in cases of rape and incest. Women describe the fear, medical risk and loss of autonomy the policy creates.
3/15/2026
by Shoshanna Ehrlich
In the final days of 2025, under the cover of the holidays, Trump’s Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reinstated a total ban on abortion (except, at least in theory, in life-threatening circumstances) and abortion counseling. In doing so, it reversed a Biden-era policy adopted in the wake of Dobbs that authorized the VA to provide abortions for women veterans and their dependents in cases of rape, incest or threats to the pregnant patient’s health or life.
The new policy applies to all VA healthcare facilities across the U.S., including in states where abortion remains legal. As a result, the VA now has “one of the strictest abortion bans in the country,” according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
March 15, 2026
Zvamaida Murwira
A CLAUSE in the Medical Services Amendment Bill that sought to legalise abortion was removed after traditional leaders protested, describing it as an abomination and taboo against traditional practices, The Sunday Mail has learnt.
The Bill had sailed through the National Assembly, but the Senate rejected it after traditional leaders said they could not approve of a practice that runs against traditional customs.
The Rising Nepal
Sat, 14 March 2026
While the Constitution guarantees safe motherhood and reproductive health as fundamental rights for women, abortion is still viewed as a crime in many places. This mindset is having a direct impact on women, and adolescent girls.
Rina Sah, 30, (name changed) from Saptari district in Madhes Province, recently went through a painful experience.
Already a mother of two, Sah had no intention of conceiving again, but she became pregnant unintentionally. She realised that she was pregnant when the pregnancy had reached around two and a half months.
Continued: https://risingnepaldaily.com/news/77102
Ricci Shryock
March 14, 2026
The first time she entered the prison, she felt as if she were going to faint. The year was 2021. Maïmouna Diouf had been found guilty of infanticide — a charge she denies, claiming she gave birth to a stillborn child that she buried without notifying the authorities.
Diouf looked around her shared room in the Thies detention center in Thies, Senegal. She was one of 10 prisoners assigned to sleep in the small space. There were dirty, old mattresses on the floor, she says. There was a smell coming from them that she could not exactly place. “This is my life now? How am I supposed to sleep here?” she thought to herself.
Continued: https://wbhm.org/npr-story/why-women-have-an-especially-tough-time-in-senegals-prisons/
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