Kuwait – Doc arrested for illegal abortions, abortion pill sales

August 05, 2026

KUWAIT: The general department of criminal investigations arrested an Egyptian obstetrician-gynecologist accused of performing illegal abortions and supplying abortion pills for money, the interior ministry said Wednesday.

The ministry said the suspect carried out the procedures at his private clinic and accepted payment in cash or by bank transfer. After confirming the information through surveillance, officers arranged a sting operation, obtained the required warrant and arrested him at the clinic.

A search of his home uncovered 49 abortion pills and 115 psychotropic tablets. The suspect confessed to the charges and admitted smuggling the abortion pills into Kuwait through illegal channels. He and the seized items were referred to the competent authorities for legal action. The ministry said it will continue to crack down on anyone who exploits their profession for illegal financial gain in violation of the law.

Source: https://kuwaittimes.com/article/47698/kuwait/crime/doc-arrested-for-illegal-abortions-abortion-pill-sales/

05.08.2026

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Three arrests, one buried foetus: What a Lahore case reveals about abortion in Pakistan

It's not illegal entirely, yet it does not provide any safeguards: Pakistan's abortion law lives in a grey zone — and women in millions pay the price every year.

July 10, 2026
By Iqra Manzoor

A recent arrest of three people in Lahore over the termination of a woman’s six-month pregnancy has reignited debate around one of Pakistan’s most taboo subjects: abortion.

The Nawab Town police told Voicepk that on July 4 they foiled an attempt made by three men who were in the process of burying the six month old foetus. The police arrested the three men, along with a midwife who was involved in the abortion. According to the Investigating Officer, the pregnancy was the result of an ‘illicit affair’, which the family wanted to cover up.

Continued: https://voicepk.net/2026/07/three-arrests-one-buried-foetus-what-a-lahore-case-reveals-about-abortion-in-pakistan/

USA – I’ve Kept This Secret For 56 Years. I’m Telling The Truth Now In The Hope That It Will Save Lives.

"I’m telling my story now because maybe it will help wake us up to the nightmare we’ve created."

By Cynthia Ehrenkrantz
Jul 20, 2025

“If your period is late, here’s what you do: Boil up half a bottle of red wine and drink it while it’s hot. Then stand on a chair and jump off several times. That should take care of it.”

It was March 1957, and I’d just finished packing my trunk. I would be leaving the next day to sail from England to the United States, where I would marry Ezra, my soldier-fiancé. Those were my mother’s final words of advice. Not “never go to bed angry,” or “pick your battles,” but how to abort a fetus.

Continued; https://www.huffpost.com/entry/92-year-old-secret-abortion-rights_n_68753d18e4b02462fe7a1980

20.07.2025

UK – We still need to have difficult conversations about abortion

Landmark changes to abortion legislation earlier this week will doubtless spark fiery debates at heatwave barbecues. Here, Claire Cohen explains how Gen Z women can take the sting out of discussions about those who opt to terminate their pregnancies after 24 weeks

Saturday 21 June 2025
Claire Cohen

My mother remembers that, when she was a child, a friendly woman, probably in her thirties, lived next door. One day, that woman was gone. Another neighbour had helped her to carry out a “backstreet abortion” – in the days when terminating a pregnancy was illegal, but coathangers were not – and she’d bled to death in her own home.

I don’t even know her name. But I thought of that poor woman this week when MPs voted overwhelmingly to stop women in England and Wales from being prosecuted for ending a pregnancy outside the law – for instance, after 24 weeks. Thank goodness, I thought, we live in a nation where women no longer have to risk death or imprisonment in desperate situations.

Continued: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abortion-decriminalised-24-weeks-shelagh-fogarty-b2774030.html

‘I’ve seen women suffer’: Malawi’s religious leaders fight for legal abortions

Deaths from backstreet abortions have united pro-choice Christian and Muslim clerics around ending the strict ban

Sarah Johnson
Thu 9 Jan 2025

Throughout his ministry, the Rev Cliff Nyekanyeka has led funeral services for women who died after an illegal abortion in Malawi. He has visited hospitals where doctors have shown him the aftereffects of such procedures, including pictures of what he describes as “rotting uteruses”. And he has seen women struggling with unwanted pregnancies.

It is this lived experience that has led Nyekanyeka to advocate for a woman’s right to choose, and to campaign for change in a country with one of the world’s strictest abortion laws. In Malawi, women seeking an abortion can be imprisoned for up to seven years and anyone administering an abortion to a woman could face 14 years in prison; it is permitted only to save a woman’s life. The law was introduced by the British under colonial rule.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/09/women-malawi-religious-leaders-legal-abortion-ban-maternal-mortality-christian-muslim

Eswatini (Swaziland)- Women, girls should not die from unsafe abortion

By Sitakele Maseko
Dec 5, 2024

Unsafe abortion remains one of the leading causes of maternal mortality worldwide, claiming the lives of thousands of women and girls each year.

Despite advances in reproductive health and rights, a significant number of women still face unsafe and illegal abortions, leading to preventable deaths

Continued: http://new.observer.org.sz/details.php?id=23142

04.12.2024

One Billion Rising and Journey of Hope for Girls and Women in Eswatini

Morocco – Fez Police Bust Illegal Abortion Criminal Gang

The court locked up the suspects as the crackdown on crimes related to healthcare and baby-trafficking continue.

Aymen Alami
Dec. 01, 2024

Rabat – Police in Fez have charged eight people, including a nurse and a herbalist, over suspicions of illegal drug sales and aiding abortions.

The arrests took place on Friday, November 29, when officers caught a woman red-handed with 50 abortion pills. Investigations revealed she was supplying them to a nurse working in a local clinic.

A search of another suspect's home uncovered 49 more pills, medical equipment, pregnancy tests, banknotes, and falsified medical papers.

Continued: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2024/12/366696/fez-police-bust-illegal-abortion-criminal-gang

01.12.2024

Jordan’s Abortion Conundrum

The country’s strict laws leave women with impossible choices and facing financial struggles, stigma and dangerous procedures

Meghan Davidson Ladly
November 29, 2024

Amal watches her children play on the living room floor of her house on a quiet street in a suburb of Jordan’s capital. As dusk settles over the sloping hills of Amman, she sinks into a sofa and lights a cigarette, adjusting her hijab.

“It is illegal, but you can’t know how I feel,” she says. “I couldn’t think of anything except getting rid of this pregnancy. Even my kids — I couldn’t think of them. And I knew I had to make a decision.”

Continued: https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/jordan-abortion-conundrum/

Sally Field Details Her ‘Traumatic’ and ‘Hideous’ Illegal Abortion From 1964 to Urge Voters to Elect Kamala Harris: ‘We Can’t Go Back’

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/

07.10.2024

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Nigeria – Police in manhunt for fleeing nurse over failed abortion

25th March 2024
By Uthman Salami

A yet-to-be-identified nurse in Oke-Owa in the Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State is currently on the run after allegedly carrying out an abortion on one Deborah Sokoya.

According to the information made available to PUNCH Metro by a police source, the said abortion failed, leading to serious bleeding and the subsequent hospitalisation of the victim.

Continued: https://punchng.com/police-in-manhunt-for-fleeing-nurse-over-failed-abortion

25.03.2024