Australia – Scotch College students and staff left reeling by anti-abortion activist’s lecture

Caroline Schelle
September 2, 2026

An anti-abortion activist’s surprise lecture to year 11 pupils at Melbourne’s Scotch College left students and staff shocked.

Dr Emma Wood spoke to year 11 boys on Tuesday as part of the Christian education curriculum, the all-boys college confirmed.

Wood runs the anti-abortion “Pro-Love Logic” organisation and gives presentations for students to understand the relationship between “widespread abortion and the individualistic sexual culture the West has embraced”.

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(https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/scotch-college-students-and-staff-left-reeling-by-anti-abortion-activist-s-lecture-20260901-p60tiv.html)

02.09.2026

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USA – Crisis pregnancy centers fight for ultrasound use in clinics without government oversight

Even some medical professionals within the pregnancy center movement have started to register their concerns.

By Sofia Resnick
July 29, 2026

The auditors trying to learn how a dozen crisis pregnancy centers in Louisiana had spent nearly $1.2 million ultimately could not figure it out.

Despite a new law, the state had failed to establish a process for the centers or to track how they spent taxpayer dollars. That was surprising enough, auditors said. But then they learned something else: Every center they reviewed offered ultrasounds and other medical services. Yet none was licensed as a healthcare facility.

“They were providing medical services, and no, they were not licensed by our Department of Health,” said Gina Brown, performance audit manager for the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, who oversaw the review. There was no way to confirm the centers had a licensed medical director on staff, she said.

Continued: https://stateline.org/2026/07/29/crisis-pregnancy-centers-fight-for-ultrasound-use-in-clinics-without-government-oversight/

Malta – Appeals Court annuls conviction in self-induced abortion case, orders fresh hearing

In landmark ruling, court cautions legal interpretations could create a ‘real risk’ individuals in medical emergencies might abstain from seeking life-saving assistance out of fear that their doctors could effectively become legal investigators

22 July 2026
by Jaelle Borg

The Criminal Court of Appeal has annulled the conviction of a woman found guilty of procuring her own abortion, ruling the original judgment was legally defective and ordering the case to be heard again by the Court of Magistrates.

The court found the original judgment failed to specify the exact provision of law under which the woman had been convicted, rendering the decision null.

Continued: https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_and_police/143366/appeal_court_annuls_conviction_in_selfinduced_abortion_case_orders_fresh_hearing

22.07.2026

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Chile – Political Undertones of the Anti-Abortion Bill: Urruticoechea, the Kaisers, and Ethical Concerns

The controversial anti-abortion bill proposed by the far-right is closely tied to political connections, particularly with its main proponent, Cristóbal Urruticoechea, a deputy of the National Libertarian Party, who is married to Senator Vanessa Kaiser.

20/07/2026

The controversial anti-abortion bill proposed by the far-right is closely linked to political ties: its main proponent, Cristóbal Urruticoechea, a deputy of the National Libertarian Party (PNL), has been married since February to Senator Vanessa Kaiser, sister of Johannes and Axel Kaiser.

The initiative titled «Listen to His Heart» requires women to hear fetal heartbeats before obtaining an abortion. This proposal was introduced on June 7 by Urruticoechea along with deputies Chiara Barchiesi (Republican Party), Catalina del Real (Republican Party), Álvaro Jofré (National Libertarian Party), Claudia Reyes (Republican Party), and Ximena Ossandón (Renewal National), who later withdrew her signature, admitting it was a “mistake” to endorse it.

Continued: https://www.elciudadano.com/en/political-undertones-of-the-anti-abortion-bill-urruticoechea-the-kaisers-and-ethical-concerns/07/20/

20.07.2026

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Chile Abortion Bill Puts Women’s Choice Through a Political Stethoscope

The Latin American Post
July 15, 2026

A far-right proposal in Chile would require doctors to offer fetal cardiac audio before legal abortions, then deny the procedure when patients decline. The contradiction has reopened a struggle over autonomy, trauma and President José Antonio Kast’s promised political restraint.

A Choice That Cancels Itself
The scene written into Chile’s latest abortion bill is intimate by design. A doctor tells a patient that embryonic or fetal cardiac activity is detectable, then offers to make it audible. She may say no. Under the bill’s own language, the physician must then refuse the abortion and record her decision. This is the controversy’s hinge: the proposal calls her refusal free, yet attaches the loss of care to it. Choice becomes ceremony, then consequence. The clinical room becomes a checkpoint, and consent becomes conditional, too.

Continued: https://latinamericanpost.com/life/chile-abortion-bill-puts-womens-choice-through-a-political-stethoscope/

The Dangerous Unraveling Of The United States’ Family Planning Safety Net

Since taking office, the Trump administration has inflicted chaos on Title X, the only federal program that supports the provision of comprehensive reproductive health care to low-income people.

Amy Friedrich-Karnik and Megan L. Kavanaugh
July 14, 2026

Every person, regardless of income or insurance status, deserves the chance to create the family they want on their own timeline. For more than 50 years, the Title X program—the only federal program that supports the provision of comprehensive reproductive health care to low-income people—has been dedicated to serving that mission. Title X was signed into law by a Republican president and has long received bipartisan support. However, today, the goal of ensuring that everyone has access to high-quality reproductive health care faces an unprecedented attack from the Trump administration.

While Title X has been underfunded in recent years—and took a massive hit under the first Trump presidency—it has shown resilience and continues to provide high-quality reproductive health care. In 2023 alone, Title X served 2.8 million people.

Continued: https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/dangerous-unraveling-united-states-family-planning-safety-net

Australia – Real question on SA abortion care is who decides?

As a controversial anti-abortion lobbyist announces she is taking SA police to court, academic Dr Judith Dwyer AM says the real question about abortion care is “who gets to decide”?

Dr Judith Dwyer
Jul 09, 2026

Anti-abortion lobbyist Joanna Howe has filed a $5000 claim against SA Police in Adelaide Magistrates Court over being told to leave a voting booth during the state election. Following a recent, controversial third attempt to pass legislation to restrict later-term abortions in this state, Dr Judith Dwyer recognises the issue won’t go away but says the real question at the heart of this debate is not ‘should there be more restrictions on abortion care?’

Last month, when members of the House of Assembly voted overwhelmingly (36 to 9) to defeat the most recent bill seeking to restrict abortions later in pregnancy, it wasn’t mostly about conscience.

Almost everyone in the chamber knew that the vote was about preserving the 2021 abortion law. The Bill was a rearguard action against that law, arising as part of a collection of right-wing populist campaigns that make up the current ‘culture wars’.

Continued: https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion/2026/07/10/real-question-on-sa-abortion-care-is-who-decides

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Australia – Saving women? Spare me. This is hatred of women at its heart

June 22, 2026
by Ebony Bennett

The far right often cloaks itself as a movement to save women and girls, while doing the exact opposite.

So, it’s no surprise that as the far right seeks to stoke hatred against immigrants and the queer community, Australia is also experiencing co-ordinated efforts across three states to wind back women’s access to abortion.

The far right is a place of differing grievances and conspiracies, including neo-Nazis and incels but there’s plenty of evidence to suggest a hatred of women sits at the centre of their toxic overlapping interests. “Misogyny isn’t just a side issue: it connects everyday violence with radicalisation.”

Continued: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/saving-women-spare-me-this-is-hatred-of-women-at-its-heart/

22.06.2026

Far-right activist sentenced in Poland over abortion protest clash

Stanisław Kaleta
29.05.2026

A prominent far-right activist has been sentenced to 10 months of unpaid community service for manhandling a protester during mass demonstrations triggered by a tightening of Poland’s abortion laws.

A Warsaw court ruled on Friday that Robert Bąkiewicz must carry out 30 hours of supervised community work per month and pay 5,000 zloty (around €1,200) in compensation to women’s rights activist Angelika Domańska.

Continued: https://tvpworld.com/93542894/bakiewicz-polish-far-right-activist-sentenced-over-abortion-protest-clash

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Through the looking glass: how pro-family discourse weaponises anti-colonialism to restrict women’s rights

27 May 2026
Ayesha Khan, Claire Carson

This year the United Nations (UN) hosted the 70th Commission on the Status of Women conference, a gathering of dignitaries, diplomats and civil society leaders who annually take stock of progress towards gender equality.

Its successes have been praised by women leaders, notably the vote for the agreed conclusions despite opposition from the United States (US), and the fact that thousands of civil society representatives from all over the world overcame visa, travel and funding restrictions to participate in person. Traditionally, the civil society organisations that participate are progressive, setting a feminist agenda that expands gender equality.

But now, an alternative civil society gathering is attempting something altogether different.

Continued: https://odi.org/en/insights/through-the-looking-glass-how-pro-family-discourse-weaponises-anti-colonialism-to-restrict-womens-rights/