USA – ‘There’s no place to go’: providers see more abortions later in pregnancy as bans spread in US

Patients are showing up ‘later and sicker’ for abortion care as more US states adopt bans and significant restrictions

Melody Schreiber
Sun 30 Aug 2026

Providers are seeing more patients in need of abortions later in pregnancy as abortion bans and restrictions proliferate in US states, all while access to insurance falls.

Those bans and restrictions have also meant that later abortion care access has grown over the past decade in a handful of haven states and cities.

Patients are showing up “later and sicker” in need of reproductive healthcare, said Diane Horvath, cofounder of Partners in Abortion Care in Maryland, the only all-trimester clinic in the US that is owned and operated by women.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/30/abortion-bans-later-procedures

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

09.07.2026

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Australia – GPs urged to raise alarm on another abortion restriction bill

By Alyssa Talakovski
05 June 2026

A South Australian upper house MP plans to introduce her third bill in under two years to restrict late-term abortions, but local GPs have an advocacy plan of their own.

Upper House MP Sarah Game, formerly of One Nation, wants to ban abortions after 25 weeks unless necessary to save the mother’s life.

SA-based sexual health GP Dr Clare Keogh warned The Medical Republic the proposal may deter vulnerable patients from seeking care.

Continued; https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/gps-urged-to-raise-alarm-on-another-abortion-restriction-bill/126296

05.06.2026

South Australia – Third attempt to change SA’s abortion laws since 2024 goes before state parliament

By Thomas Kelsall and Kathryn Bermingham
May 20, 2026

South Australia's parliament is set to debate restrictions on late-term abortion for the third time in less than two years.

Anti-abortion campaigners are hopeful the newly elected upper house, comprised of three new One Nation members, will pass the legislation.

Upper house MLC Sarah Game, formerly of One Nation and now an independent, introduced legislation on Wednesday to place new limits on abortions after 25 weeks.

Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/bill-to-change-abortion-laws-goes-before-sa-parliament/106701906

20.05.2026

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Canada – Why we shouldn’t engage in the later abortion debate

Those who oppose all forms of abortion, use later abortions as a wedge issue to attack all abortion access.

by Dr. Roma Dhamanaskar
April 30, 2026

Creating unnecessary panic around later abortions is a political tool to promote controversy around access to abortion in Canada. Later abortions, which are those occurring after 20 weeks’ gestation, are uncommon and occur for a variety of complicated medical and social reasons.

Anti-choice politicians and activists attempt to rally opposition for abortion rights by presenting later abortion as a key issue when it comes to abortion access in Canada. Using later abortion as a scapegoat to create opposition to abortion access is problematic for many reasons.

Continued: https://rabble.ca/feminism/why-we-shouldnt-engage-in-the-later-abortion-debate/

30.04.2026

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Inside the right-wing push against abortion rights in Scotland

Nov 30, 2025
By James Walker

A RECENT review of Scotland's abortion laws led to widespread right-wing outrage last week. One clip that went particularly viral was a GB News segment featuring Lois McLatchie Miller, who works for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

“The Scottish Government have commissioned a report to suggest that they allow abortion all the way up to birth for most social reasons,” she told the broadcaster’s presenters.

Continued: https://archive.is/lcmwa
(https://www.thenational.scot/news/25659692.inside-right-wing-push-abortion-rights-scotland/)

Canada – Pro-choice group warns of new abortion ‘disinformation’ on social media

Recently published videos show the co-founder of a pro-life group posing as someone interested in accessing an abortion, including at a clinic in Toronto

Gabe Oatley
Nov 21, 2025

One of the country’s leading pro-choice organizations is raising alarm about a new social media campaign it says is distorting public perception of abortion access in Canada.

Over the past 10 days, RightNow, a pro-life advocacy organization, has released a series of videos on social media showing the group’s co-founder, Alissa Golob, allegedly speaking with staff at four Canadian clinics in 2023 about getting an abortion.

Continued: https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/health/abortion-disinformation-social-media-pro-choice-group-warning-11517455

21.11.2025

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Australia – Why politicians are talking about abortions again

November 2, 2025
Hosts: Billi FitzSimons • Sam Koslowski
Podcast – 12:41 minutes

Last week, late-term abortions came up as a point of contention in Australia’s Parliament.

It’s all because of a new proposed bill that would make it illegal for companies to cancel paid parental leave if a baby dies or is born stillborn.

So what’s the connection between that and late-term abortions? And how common actually are late term abortions?

Continued: https://thedailyaus.com.au/podcast/why-politicians-are-talking-about-abortions-again

02.11.2025

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Australia – Hastie, Joyce ignite late-term abortion fight over paid leave for stillbirth law

By Natassia Chrysanthos
October 29, 2025

Four Coalition MPs have renewed a debate over “late-term abortions” in federal parliament, raising concern that laws guaranteeing paid leave for parents of stillborn children will be used by mothers whose pregnancies are terminated.

Outspoken MPs Andrew Hastie and Barnaby Joyce aired the issue during debate over “Baby Priya’s Bill” – a proposed amendment to existing laws that would ensure employers can’t cancel paid parental leave because a child is stillborn or dies.

Continued: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/hastie-joyce-ignite-late-term-abortion-fight-over-paid-leave-for-stillbirth-law-20251029-p5n6c4.html

A doctor’s story shows ‘late-term’ abortion access is politically charged – but crucial

September 2, 2025
Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University

Review: Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care – Shelley Sella, MD (Random House)

In the United States, around 1% of abortions occur after 21 weeks. Yet these abortions are intensely vilified. Recall Donald Trump’s graphic and false claim that US laws allowed doctors to “rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day”.

For two decades, Dr Shelley Sella provided abortion care in the US into the third trimester of pregnancy: that is, after 26 weeks gestation. Her new book Beyond Limits offers an intimate account of health care and politics, written from the front lines of America’s abortion wars.

In Australia, abortion after 20 weeks gestation is also statistically rare – and most Australians agree that people need abortions after 20 weeks for a variety of medical and social reasons. However, in the last year or so, the focus on later abortions seems to be intensifying here, along with misinformation.

Continued; https://theconversation.com/a-doctors-story-shows-late-term-abortion-access-is-politically-charged-but-crucial-263920

02.09.2025