Mar 31, 2026
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris
States with and without abortion bans are advancing bills that would shield anti-abortion pregnancy resource centers from certain government mandates and attempts at regulation, allowing them to sue for damages if any part of the law is violated.
At least four states introduced the legislation this session, and two of them, Kansas and Wyoming, made it law. Montana also passed a similar law in 2025. The bills are still pending in Oklahoma and New Hampshire.
In Georgia, a woman was charged with murder after allegedly taking pills to induce a termination. Yet America happily drops bombs on children abroad
Arwa Mahdawi
Sat 21 Mar 2026
How many children has the US helped kill this week in the Middle East? It’s hard to keep track, but Unicef reports that more than 1,800 children in the region have been killed or injured since the US and Israel started a war with Iran on 28 February.
In Lebanon, a US-backed Israel is killing or wounding a classroom’s worth of children every day, Unicef’s deputy executive director told Reuters. That’s just after killing more than 20,000 children in Gaza in two years, all with the help of US taxpayer dollars.
Classrooms full of massacred children sounds pretty shocking to any normal person. But remember, when it comes to the Middle East, the situation is always complicated. Certainly, our lawmakers aren’t losing any sleep over dead brown kids.
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.
Anthony Tambwe
Feb 23, 2025
DAR ES SALAAM: IN October 2020, a coalition of countries led by the United States under President Donald Trump unveiled the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family.
Though non-binding, the declaration sent a powerful political message…. ‘abortion should not be recognised as an international right and should not be promoted as a method of family planning’.
It reaffirmed national sovereignty over abortion laws and emphasised the inherent dignity of human life.
Continued: https://dailynews.co.tz/the-geneva-consensus-maputo-protocol-and-tanzanias-silent-crisis/
In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
by Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana
January 14, 2026
When Ciji Graham visited a cardiologist on Nov. 14, 2023, her heart was pounding at 192 beats per minute, a rate healthy people her age usually reach during the peak of a sprint. She was having another episode of atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heartbeat. The 34-year-old Greensboro, North Carolina, police officer was at risk of a stroke or heart failure.
In the past, doctors had always been able to shock Graham’s heart back into rhythm with a procedure called a cardioversion. But this time, the treatment was just out of reach. After a pregnancy test came back positive, the cardiologist didn’t offer to shock her. Graham texted her friend from the appointment: “Said she can’t cardiovert being pregnant.”
Continued: https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham
New Jersey’s broad subpoena against an anti-abortion chain has made for some strange bedfellows.
Nina Martin, Mother Jones
Dec 1, 2025
Even if you have no idea what a crisis pregnancy center is, the donor website for the First Choice Women’s Resource Centers chain in northeastern New Jersey offers plenty of clues: Prominent logos for the anti-abortion groups Heartbeat International and CareNet. A home page banner proclaiming “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 2026.” An agreement for prospective volunteers that states, “I openly acknowledge my personal faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,” and “[I] reject abortion as an acceptable option for any woman.”
By Reuters Fact Check
June 25, 2025
British members of parliament have voted to decriminalise abortions for women, not legalise all abortion up to birth, contrary to online posts using the different legal terms interchangeably.
MPs backed a Crime and Policing Bill amendment, opens new tab on June 17 that would mean criminal penalties would no longer apply in England and Wales to women who abort their own pregnancies.
Labour MPs have voted in favour of legalising abortion up to birth," said a June 18 post, referring to the vote.
Continued; https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/british-mps-have-not-voted-legalise-abortion-up-birth-2025-06-25/
A new study being used to call for mifepristone restrictions relies on vague and dubious definitions of drug-related complications.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
May 5, 2025
The abortion pill mifepristone "is not safe and effective," argue the authors of a new study that uses insurance claim data to examine adverse reactions to the pill. They claim to have found a "serious adverse event" rate of 10.93 percent, and they say this finding justifies renewed restrictions on mifepristone.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) seems to agree. The day the Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC) released its new mifepristone study, Hawley wrote to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Marty Makary, urging the commissioner to "follow this new data and take all appropriate action to restore critical safeguards on the use of mifepristone."
Continued: https://reason.com/2025/05/05/the-bad-data-backing-josh-hawleys-attack-on-abortion-pills/
By Ross Pomeroy
May 2, 2025
A new report from the Ethics & Public Policy Center, a religious conservative think tank, is being hailed amongst right-wingers as “the statistical equivalent of a category 5 hurricane hitting the prevailing narrative of the abortion industry.”
According to the report, the rate of serious adverse events amongst women who used mifepristone to medically induce an abortion is not 0.5 percent, but rather 11 percent. Mifepristone, which blocks the hormone progesterone (needed for a pregnancy to continue), is commonly used with the ulcer prevention drug misoprostol to safely and effectively end pregnancies at fewer than ten weeks gestation.
Some on the right are using the report to cudgel FDA Commissioner Martin Makary to restrict or even ban the use of mifepristone. Makary last week said he has “no plans to take action” to restrict the availability of mifepristone. He did, however, leave the door open to take action if the data changed.
Continued: https://www.splinter.com/the-bogus-category-5-hurricane-hitting-the-abortion-pill
April 24, 2025
Source: Glasnaya
The Russian government declared 2024 the Year of the Family. In practice, this meant tighter restrictions on reproductive rights, including limiting access to certain emergency contraceptives, outlawing so-called “childfree propaganda,” and sending priests with anti-abortion films into schools, universities, and women’s clinics. Officials and lawmakers also spent the year debating the prospect of a nationwide abortion ban.
Although no such ban has been passed yet, in some regions it’s already become a de facto reality. In places like the Republic of Karelia, women face so many barriers to accessing abortion services that many are forced to travel to neighboring regions for care. Despite national laws that still protect the right to abortion, local restrictions in Karelia have made the procedure increasingly difficult to obtain. Meduza has translated a report by the independent outlet Glasnaya detailing the growing obstacles women face when seeking abortions in the western Russian region.
Continued: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/24/i-lost-control-of-my-life
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