Pro-choice doctors urge women to lie after an abortion to avoid legal complications given that abortion is illegal and punishable by a prison sentence
3 August 2025
by Kurt Sansone
It is shocking when a doctor asks patients to lie but that is what pro-choice doctors are urging women to do when seeking medical assistance after an abortion.
The reason for such advice is for women to avoid legal complications given that abortion is illegal and punishable by a prison sentence.
Yun-mi
2025.07.30
Five years have passed since the Constitutional Court ruled that the abortion law was unconstitutional, but abortion by medication remains in a legal gray area. Nothing shows this better than the failure to introduce the abortion pill Mifegymiso (mifepristone and misoprostol) into Korea due to legislative gaps.
“We need a legal basis to begin the approval process for Mifegymiso tablets. Currently, we cannot proceed with its substantive review due to a lack of such a basis,” an official at the Drug Approval Division of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) told journalists on Wednesday.
Continued: https://www.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=28411
Telangana DC Correspondent
16 July 2025
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Drugs Control Administration (DCA) on Tuesday found discrepancies in 149 medical shops for violations related to the sale of abortion kits. Show cause notices were issued to the shops and departmental action has been initiated.
The inspections across the state are being conducted to curb the illegal sale of abortion kits, including drugs such as Mifepristone and Misoprostol. According to officials, the violations included the sale of abortion kits without valid prescriptions from registered medical practitioners, failure to maintain or produce sales and purchase bills, and dispensing of drugs without the presence of a registered pharmacist.
Jul 16, 2025
SINGAPORE – Wanting to terminate her pregnancy, an unmarried young woman consumed abortion pills she had bought online and gave birth later that day to a baby girl in a bathroom of her home.
The infant died less than two hours later. An autopsy revealed that her gestational age was around 29 to 33 weeks.
The baby’s mother, who was then around 23 years old, later told investigators that she did not undergo legal abortion as she found the procedure to be expensive, and she was afraid her parents would find out about it.
Primary care providers play an integral part in medical abortion access, but many barriers are preventing uptake of medical abortion provision.
Annika Howells
Issue 25 / 30 June 2025
Access to safe and affordable abortion is essential health care and a human right.
Medical abortion — via administration of the combined mifepristone–misoprostol regimen (MS-2 Step) — is becoming more accessible, thanks to increased access via telehealth models and subsidisation in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
However, medical abortion is still not widely available in primary care, and geographic and financial barriers remain.
In her new book, Access, Rebecca Grant chronicles activists' decades-long fight to defy abortion restrictions—including the origin story of Plan C.
By Rebecca Grant
June 24, 2025
This is an excerpt from Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom, by Rebecca Grant. The book chronicles activists’ decades-long mission to defy abortion restrictions and fight for reproductive freedom, from the U.S. to France, Mexico, the Netherlands, and more.
In 2014, Elisa Wells and Francine Coeytaux were positioned outside a pharmacy in Ethiopia waiting for a colleague to come out. The pharmacy was sandwiched between two stores with green signs that read “Fujifilm Digital Print Shop” and set back from the bustling red-and-yellow sidewalk. A few moments later, their companion, a woman, emerged holding a box. White and light brown with a yellow rose and branded as a “Safe-T” kit, its label read: “This pack contains treatment for early medical abortion.”
Alarm as Javier Milei’s government curbs state supply of abortion pills and seeks to reverse landmark legalization
Harriet Barber in Tucumán
Wed 28 May 2025
Argentina is being used as a “testing ground” for stripping back abortion rights internationally as it cuts funding for contraceptives and ends the distribution of abortion pills, Amnesty International warned on Wednesday.
Before the inauguration of President Javier Milei in December 2023, the state bought abortion pills, which were then distributed for free through the public health system.
5/26/2024
by Carrie N. Baker
U.S. abortion bans impact 6.7 million Latinas in the United States—the largest group of women of color impacted by these bans. Many lack insurance, cannot travel and face language and cultural barriers to reproductive healthcare.
To address these barriers, two Canadian physicians—Dr. Roopan Gill and Dr. Genevieve Tam—co-created Aya Contigo, an app with an embedded live virtual chat to help people access contraception and abortion. A project of Vitala Global, the app provides resources for obtaining and using abortion pills, and the chat is staffed by professional counselors who walk users through the process. Launched originally in Venezuela, Aya Contigo began serving the United States in September 2023 with plans to expand to Guatemala.
Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2024/05/26/spanish-abortion-support-usa-venezuela-latina-women/
The Galen Centre calls for law reform, after a Melaka court sentenced a 21-year-old woman to jail for self-managed abortion. Abortion has been lawful in Malaysia since 1989 when Section 312 of the Penal Code was amended to allow termination of pregnancy.
By Azrul Mohd Khalib
23 May 2025
The recent nine-month custodial sentence imposed by the Ayer Keroh Magistrate’s Court on a young woman who ended a five-month pregnancy with medication obtained online, highlights the urgent need to modernise laws that continue to criminalise women while failing to address the root causes of unplanned pregnancies.
No woman or girl should face prison for exercising autonomy over her body. Malaysia’s Penal Code still contains provisions dating back from and written in the 19th century. They do not reflect current medical practice, World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, human-rights standards, or the realities faced by women, especially young women, the poor and the unmarried.
New York’s shield law was designed to protect providers mailing medication abortion pills out of state. But a New York provider is facing legal action in Louisiana and Texas.
Rachel Rebouché
February 20, 2025
Can a doctor who lives in and practices medicine in the state of New York be fined by a Texas court for violating Texas’s abortion ban and licensure law, or be indicted on criminal charges under Louisiana’s abortion law for prescribing and mailing abortion pills to patients who are residents of those states?
Dr. Margaret Carpenter is facing a lawsuit from the state of Texas and an indictment from a Louisiana grand jury for prescribing and shipping medication abortion to people in those states. Last Thursday, Louisiana’s governor signed an order to extradite, demanding that New York force Carpenter to travel to Louisiana to stand trial. New York Governor Kathy Hochul forcefully rejected the demand, stating: “I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana — not now, not ever.” Around the same time, a Texas state court entered a default judgement against Carpenter, finding her in violation of Texas’s abortion ban and liable for over $100,000 in fines and attorney fees.
Continued: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/shield-laws-fault-line-abortion-access/
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