by Sethembumenziyedwa Samuku
20 Apr 2026
Mbabane – A total of 3 376 teenage pregnancies were recorded between January and September 2025, highlighting adolescent vulnerability and raising concerns over unsafe abortion practices.
Continued: https://www.pressreader.com/eswatini/times-of-eswatini/20260420/281659671624782
The raid was led by SI Biswa Bandita Sahoo, who posed as a patient seeking abortion to gather evidence.
17 Apr 2026
CUTTACK: Badamba police on Friday arrested a 55-year-old man on charges of impersonating a doctor and running an unlicensed clinic. He is alleged to be performing illegal abortions for over a decade.
The police also seized several medical equipment from the accused, Jayant Bastia of Sunapal under Badamba block, which include a manually-operated suction machine, surgical dilators and tools, injections and medicines. Bastia was running the clinic from his house at Sunapal. Badamba IIC Paramananda Nayak said following a tip-off, the police conducted a raid at the clinic on the day and caught Bastia red-handed while he was reportedly performing an abortion. A woman, who was in critical condition and bleeding profusely, was rescued and admitted to the Badamba CHC.
Kehinde explained that the relationship led to pregnancy, which she claimed the monarch insisted must be terminated under threats.
April 17, 2026
A 21-year-old woman from Ipele in the Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State has accused a traditional ruler in her community of impregnating her, coercing her into terminating the pregnancy, and subjecting her to threats, intimidation, and harassment.
The victim, Ifemide Kehinde, in an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters, alleged that the monarch — whom she described as the Kabiyesi of her town — initially proposed to make her his second wife before the relationship turned abusive.
Campaigners argue Streeting’s strategy to incentivise clinics for ‘same day’ treatments will leave women with less time to reconsider
Gabriella Swerling
17 April 2026
Labour would encourage “lunch-hour” abortions under new plans, critics have claimed. A change to the payment structure for abortion clinics would provide a “financial incentive” to rush women through treatment, claimed anti-abortion campaigners.
The new payment process was launched as part of Wes Streeting’s renewed women’s health strategy for England, in which he promised to tackle medical misogyny and improve women’s care.
Continued: https://archive.is/zXYiH
(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/04/17/labour-plans-lunch-hour-abortions-critics/)
Law will also expunge police records for women arrested in England and Wales, and stop future prosecutions
Hannah Al-Othman
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Legislation to pardon women who have been convicted of illegal abortions has passed its final parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for a landmark change in the law in England and Wales.
The amendment to the crime and policing bill, which will also expunge the police records of those arrested and investigated over illegal abortions, was considered in the House of Lords during a phase of parliamentary ping-pong, where a bill passes back and forth between the Lords and Commons.
By Stephanie Richards
April 15, 2025
A South Australian prisoner who was denied medication to terminate her pregnancy has received an apology from the state government.
The apology was prompted by a complaint lodged last year to South Australia's ombudsman, who found the SA Prison Health Service made an "administrative error" by not affording the woman the opportunity to have a medical termination of pregnancy, despite informing staff of her wishes to do so.
Women on Waves
For immediate release: April 15, 2026
To call attention to the violation of women’s rights in Malta, Women on Waves has placed several abortion key safes across Malta and Gozo. The safes contain abortion pills. Women who are less than 9 weeks pregnant and in need of an abortion can email us to get the location and the code of the safes.
Malta is the only European Union (EU) country to maintain a near-total ban on abortion. Despite the ban, every year approximately 600 women in Malta use abortion pills.[1]
Continued: https://www.womenonwaves.org/en/page/7875/abortion-key-safes-in-malta
Abortion rates have dropped sevenfold since 1989, but weekend protests and sharp rhetoric signal a deepening divide over reproductive rights.
Elizabeth Zahradnicek-Haas, ČTK
14.04.2026
Abortion numbers in Czechia have fallen to historic lows, but increasingly sharp political rhetoric and rival street demonstrations in Prague this weekend proved that growing tensions over reproductive rights remain.
Police and organizers said more than 4,000 people took part in the March for Life on Saturday, which began near Prague Castle and moved through the city center in smaller groups toward Wenceslas Square. Counter-protesters attempted to block parts of the route at several points, prompting repeated police intervention.
April 13, 2026
By Steph Brawn
A WARNING that reproductive rights "are not safe" with Reform UK has been issued after it emerged a leading anti-abortion figure is standing for the party in England's local elections. Lois McLatchie Miller is standing for Nigel Farage's party in the affluent London area of Maida Vale next month.
McLatchie Miller has worked for years for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) – a Christian group known for its work overturning abortion rights in the US as well as opposing LGBT+ rights – and has made regular appearances on GB News and Talk TV.
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(https://www.thenational.scot/news/26017330.leading-anti-abortion-figure-standing-reform-uk-may-elections/)
13 April 2026
In Ghent, healthcare professionals and the city council have given a positive assessment of a pilot project that ensures women have rapid access to an emergency IUD (Intrauterine Device), also known as an emergency copper coil. This alternative to the morning-after pill is often overlooked, even though it is more reliable following unprotected sex. Since the project began in June 2025, more than 100 emergency IUDs have already been fitted in hospitals, GP practices and an abortion clinic.
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