Guyana – The Great Abortion Resistance: The Government v Mid-level Health Workers

By Fred Nunes (Stabroek News)

January 12, 2026

On January 15, 2026, the Government of Guyana will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its quiet disregard of an unequivocal High Court ruling regarding mid-level health care professionals and early term, non-surgical abortion services. Ever since 1995, all duly registered mid-level health workers have been legally authorized to perform early term, non-surgical abortions.

There is no need for additional registration to perform abortions. They only need three things: (i) access to Misoprostol (Cytotec), (ii) a cooperating physician, and (iii) the Form F on which they must submit an anonymous report. That’s all.

But the Ministry of Health has waged a very successful, 30-year war against this provision. Why?

Continued: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2026/01/12/features/in-the-diaspora/the-great-abortion-resistance-the-government-v-mid-level-health-workers/

12.01.2026

Royal College of Nursing

New Book Outlines Medication Abortion’s Origins—From ‘Chance’ Discovery to Decades of Clinical Tests and Global Approval

“Just Pills” author Rebecca Kelliher also discusses how the U.S. stacks up against Latin America on abortion rights, and what we can learn from the region’s fight for reproductive justice.

Dec 16, 2025
Catesby Holmes

The abortion drug mifepristone has transformed abortion care in the U.S. since its approval by the Food and Drug Administration 25 years ago.

…Journalist Rebecca Kelliher’s recent book, Just Pills, traces the history of abortion medications, starting with misoprostol’s whispered origins among Brazilian women in the 1980s as a “pill that makes your period back” through decades of clinical trials and widespread use in almost 100 countries.

Rewire News Group spoke with Kelliher about abortion politics, the disinformation that swirls around reproductive rights, and inspiration from abroad.

Continued: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/16/mifepristone-just-pills-rebecca-kelliher-book/

A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack

Dec 14, 2025
by Carrie N. Baker, Ms. Magazine

The feminist telehealth provider is cutting out pharmaceutical middlemen to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders.

Across much of the world, medical providers do not offer abortion because this care is criminalized, stigmatized or unfunded. As a result, an increasing number of women are accessing abortion pills outside of the formal medical system. At the center of this shift is Women Help Women, a global telehealth abortion service that supports self-managed abortion by providing abortion pills and information about how to use them, to women around the world, especially in places where abortion is restricted by law, stigma or lack of access.

Continued; https://msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/global-telehealth-women-help-women-mifepristone-misprostol-abortion-pills-combo-pack/

Abortion in Afghanistan: ‘My mother crushed my stomach with a stone’

By AFP
December 04, 2025

When Bahara was four months pregnant, she went to a Kabul hospital to beg for an abortion. “We’re not allowed,” a doctor told her. “If someone finds out, we will all end up in prison.”

Abortion in Afghanistan is illegal and you can be locked up for having or assisting one.

But Bahara was desperate. Her jobless husband had ordered her to “find a solution” -- he did not want a fifth daughter. “We can barely afford to feed” the girls as it is, Bahara, 35, told AFP. “If it was a boy, he could go to school and work.”

Continued: https://www.mydailyrecord.com/news/national/abortion-in-afghanistan-my-mother-crushed-my-stomach-with-a-stone/article_98859b6c-5ea4-5b4e-93c2-a1638c62c344.html

Nigeria – Abortion crisis as girls turn to unsafe practices

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
By Olivier Mukaaya

At just 19 years old, Resty (not her real name) from Namisindwa District faced a nightmare no girl should ever endure. One evening, while walking along a bushy path near her home, she was ambushed and raped by an unknown man.

When she later missed her period, she dismissed it as normal; her cycle had always been irregular. But as the days went by, morning vomiting and persistent illness set in.

Continued: https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/abortion-crisis-as-girls-turn-to-unsafe-practices-5268706

18.11.2025

‘Mife No Matter What’: Community Abortion Providers Pledge to Continue Sharing Free Abortion Pills, Even if FDA Imposes Restrictions

Despite growing legal threats to the accessibility of abortion pills, national networks of volunteers are working to distribute the medication, discretely and without cost to patients.

Nov 4, 2025
by Carrie N. Baker

Since Roe fell, a community-led network of care has grown into a nationwide system with the promise of “mife no matter what.”

In June 2022, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and over half of states banned or restricted abortion, grassroots activists across the country organized mutual aid groups to share free abortion pills with people living in restrictive states. Today, community providers distributing free abortion pills operate in every U.S. state and territory that bans or restricts abortion.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/04/free-abortion-pills-mifepristone-ban-states/

How Abortion Pill “Reversal” Became a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Weapon

Blue-state attempts to crack down on the treatment could end up shielding “fake clinics” from any oversight.

Garnet Henderson, Susan Rinkunas, Mother Jones
Oct 15, 2025

Crisis pregnancy centers have played a central role in the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s, often misleading and confusing people seeking abortions while purporting to help them. They mimic the appearance of abortion clinics, with similar-sounding names and even lookalike logos. Their volunteers sometimes pose as clinic staff to divert abortion patients from getting care. Their websites are teeming with disinformation, including claims that abortion is unsafe or linked to future mental illness, breast cancer, and fertility issues. “A killer, who in this case is the girl who wants to kill her baby, has no right to information that will help her kill her baby,” Robert Pearson, founder of the very first CPC in the US, once declared.

Continued: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/how-abortion-pill-reversal-became-a-powerful-right-wing-legal-weapon/

Wading without Roe — where do you go?

California becomes a last-resort haven for patients seeking to end pregnancies

By Audrey Tomlin • Bay City News
Oct 11, 2025

In September 2023, Marcela Bermudez bought a one-way ticket, stepped on a plane in Houston, Texas, and flew more than 1,000 miles to Los Angeles, California. She was 25 years old. She was 14 weeks pregnant. She did not want to be. Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing the federal constitutional right to an abortion, had been overturned 15 months earlier. In Texas, abortion was banned.

Bermudez was one of nearly 7,000 patients who traveled to California from out of state for an abortion that year. She, alongside other patients who crossed state lines for abortion care, shared memories of long, costly travels, overwhelming stigma, and the need for much effort and a little bit of luck — the right friend or a supportive partner — to receive their abortions.

Continued: https://localnewsmatters.org/2025/10/11/wading-without-roe-california-a-last-resort-haven-for-patients-trying-to-end-pregnancies/

Celebrating mifepristone, a hero in modern abortion access, on its 25th anniversary in the U.S.

Though it faces new legal challenges, mifepristone may offer yet more

By Elisa Wells
Sept. 28, 2025

When the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone, the abortion pill, on Sept. 28, 2000, none of us working on expanding access to reproductive health care could have imagined the future we find ourselves in 25 years later. From the fall of Roe in 2022 and the subsequent banning or restriction of abortion in 19 states, to South Carolina’s recent efforts to include some forms of birth control in its total abortion ban, access to the basic medical care and medications that allow us to control our reproductive destinies is hanging by a thread. In the midst of this reproductive health care apocalypse, mifepristone is proving itself to be a hero in the fight for abortion access.

Continued: https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/28/mifepristone-abortion-pill-fda-approval-25th-anniversary/

Philippines: Hidden ordeal of women forced to seek abortion online

By: Faith Argosino - Reporter / @FArgosinoINQINQUIRER.net
September 28, 2025

MANILA, Philippines — Women seeking to terminate unwanted pregnancies seem to have found solace in online selling platforms, where vendors openly offer “abortion pills” or herbal potions marketed as remedies to “regulate” menstruation.

A quick search on several e-commerce sites, and even on Facebook, shows that these pills can be purchased through anonymous accounts — many of which are now inactive. In a few public online groups, sellers even post glowing reviews, with images of expelled embryos or sanitary pads soaked in blood clots and screenshots of conversations with “satisfied” customers.

Continued: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2116456/click-to-abort-hidden-ordeal-of-women-forced-to-seek-abortion-online

28.09.2025