Michelle Begue
May 21, 2025
Video: 2:47 minutes
Colombia has been pushing for citizens to have better access to safe abortions. In 2022, the country witnessed a landmark ruling where the Constitutional Court made abortions legal before the 24th week of gestation. Three years later, more than 150,000 women have exercised their right to a safe abortion.
Continued: https://america.cgtn.com/2025/05/21/colombias-push-for-safe-abortion-access
March 4, 2025
Video – 2:19 minutes
The limited access to abortion in Togo means that thousands of women undergo underground procedures every year. This physically and legally risky choice, some women's rights campaigners say, makes the lives of vulnerable women even more difficult.
By Zack Sharf
Oct 7, 2024
Sally Field posted a video to Instagram in which she remembered the “hideous” and “traumatic” illegal abortion she underwent in 1964 before her Hollywood acting career took off. The Oscar winner first wrote about the abortion in her 2018 memoir “In Pieces,” but she revived the story ahead of the upcoming presidential election as a call for voters to elect Kamala Harris.
“I’ve been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story,” Field wrote in the caption to the video. “It was during a time even worse than now. A time when contraception was not readily available and only if you were married. But I feel that so many women of my generation went through similar, traumatic events and I feel stronger when I think of them. I believe, like me, they must want to fight for their grandchildren and all the young women of this country.”
Continued: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/sally-field-abortion-story-kamala-harris-support-1236169893/
August 04, 2024
by Halima Gongo
Video: 3:17 minutes
Abortion is restricted in Kenya, but in Kilifi County on the southern coast many women and girls with unplanned pregnancies say they have no choice but to undergo dangerous abortions without the intervention of a nurse or doctor. Local activists say the practice is contributing to high maternal mortality in the region. Halima Gongo reports.
Continued: https://www.voanews.com/a/activists-address-reality-of-unsafe-abortions-in-kenya/7729603.html
By Florian PLAUCHEUR
June 24, 2024
Video: 1:31 minutes
Hundreds of abortion rights activists protest on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro against a controversial bill under consideration in Congress that would equate abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy to homicide and impose up to 20 years in prison, including in cases of sexual abuse.
By Marian Faa
2 May 2024
Photo story
The price of taboos
Around the world, heated debates about abortion are taking place. But in the Pacific, the topic is so taboo, only a handful of people are willing to talk about it. You’re about to hear from some of them.
WARNING: This story contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence against children.
Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-03/pacific-abortion-taboo-women-laws-witch-doctor/103627236
Photographs by Danielle Villasana
Story by Rebecca Wright, CNN
Published March 31, 2024
Samantha Casiano spent this month planning her daughter’s first birthday party. The 30-year-old east Texas mother of four knows how to throw a good party for her kids.
But this family get-together on Friday was not a traditional party, despite Casiano purchasing a cake and balloons for the event.
Instead, Casiano’s family spent the day at the gravesite of Halo Hope Villasana, Casiano’s daughter who was born with anencephaly, a fatal condition that prevents a child’s brain and skull from forming properly.
Continued: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/03/health/texas-abortion-law-mother-cnnphotos/
March 10, 2024
By Chimwemwe Padatha
Video: 2:48 minutes
In Malawi, 35,000 backstreet abortions were carried out in 2022 and 2023, according to its Ministry of Health. These unsafe procedures are just one reason support for abortion rights has increased in recent years. Chimwemwe Padatha has more from Lilongwe.
Continued: https://www.voanews.com/a/malawi-activists-lobby-for-abortion-law-reforms/7521799.html
By Meg Tirrell and John Bonifield, CNN
Sat February 10, 2024
(with 5 minute video: Why women are afraid to be pregnant in this red state)
Jen and John Adkins never expected to have to send a package like this.
Unsteady on her feet after a medical procedure last spring, Jen emerged from a clinic with a box she needed to ship urgently. The clock was ticking; if they missed the FedEx cutoff, she and John recalled to CNN, they wouldn’t be able to get crucial test results that would affect the future of their family.
Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/health/idaho-abortion-laws/index.html
At a clinic in Maryland, desperate patients arrive from all over the country to terminate their pregnancies.
Photographs by Maggie Shannon
February 5, 2024
For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy. In May, 2022, the draft opinion of the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade was leaked, infusing their plan with fresh urgency. The women had launched a GoFundMe campaign earlier that spring, noting that stand-alone clinics made up the majority of providers offering abortion after fifteen weeks, and that many of these had closed in recent years. Within weeks, Nuzzo and Horvath had raised more than a hundred thousand dollars; that summer, they started training employees for the new clinic, Partners in Abortion Care, in College Park, Maryland. They saw their first patient that October, and by the end of 2023 they had treated nearly five hundred. The youngest was eleven years old, the oldest fifty-three.
Continued: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-safe-haven-for-late-abortions
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