Dec 6, 2024
Clare Worden, BBC News
A man has been jailed for 12 years for sexually assaulting a pregnant woman and giving her medication to cause a miscarriage.
Prosecutors said Stuart Worby administered the drugs in a glass of orange juice and when the victim was blindfolded under the guise of what they said was "kinky sex".
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered a miscarriage in hospital within hours of the assault.
Oct 23, 2024
Clare Worden, BBC News, Norfolk
A man accused of sexually assaulting a woman while giving her medication to cause a miscarriage told his trial he threw the tablets down the sink.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, lost her baby at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in the summer of 2022.
Stuart Worby, 40, of Dereham in Norfolk, admits getting the medications but denies administering them to the woman.
Law designed to protect minors has created a chilling effect on adolescent access to safe abortion services.
Center for Reproductive Rights
July 25, 2024
Although India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act), enacted in 2012, was designed to protect children from sexual offences, the Act has created several barriers that deter adolescents from accessing safe and legal abortion services.
The Center for Reproductive Rights partnered with the Law and Marginalisation Clinic at the Centre for Justice, Law and Society (CJLS) at Jindal Global Law School; CommonHealth; YP Foundation; and Hidden Pockets to develop a factsheet examining the POCSO Act and its impact on adolescents’ access to care.
Continued: https://reproductiverights.org/india-adolescents-abortion-access-posco-act/
June 30, 2024
By Cassiane Saraiva, Nicole Luna
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL – In recent weeks, conservative efforts to punish women who get abortions – including child victims of rape – as criminals has spurred demonstrations and discussion on social media. Unfortunately, abortion access is something that we, as a society, must fight to achieve.
Abortion in Brazil is allowed in cases when childbirth is a risk to life to the mother or in cases of rape or if the fetus has brain damage. The problem is that here in Brazil, the process to be able to receive the right to abort is extremely slow.
Continued: https://youthjournalism.org/brazilian-politicians-want-criminal-penalties-for-abortion/
Abortion stigma stemming from Brazilian law creates misinformation and delays in legal care, and retraumatizes survivors of sexual violence.
MAY 9, 2024
GARNET HENDERSON
On Easter Day in 2023, a woman named Tatiana went to buy Easter eggs for her two daughters. It was something her husband used to do, but he had recently died. So she went herself, after a late shift at a hospital on the outskirts of São Paulo, where she works as a cleaner.
As she left the grocery store near her home, a man armed with a gun drove up and grabbed Tatiana. He threw her into his car and raped her, strangling her and leaving bruises all over her body.
Continued: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/05/09/under-brazils-abortion-ban-lack-of-information-kills/
Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY
Dec 12, 2023
April Matson was a single mother of two on a six-hour interstate quest to find a legal abortion.
Matson loved being a parent, but the 25-year-old Native American couldn’t afford another child on her small salary as a food co-op manager. So, in 2016, Matson and a friend set out from Rapid City, South Dakota, for the long drive to Fort Collins, Colorado, for a $650 abortion. To save money, Matson spent two nights after the procedure recovering in a tent at a campsite.
Publicly funded Catholic hospitals across Australia are using the cover of religion to opt out of providing reproductive care – and experts say it has created a ‘postcode lottery’ for access to services
by Donna Lu and Melissa Davey
Mon 21 Aug 2023
When Sarah*, a Melbourne mother, was pregnant with her second child, her GP gave her a surprising warning: if she had any serious complications, concerns about the viability of the pregnancy or believed she might be miscarrying, she should go to the Royal Women’s hospital rather than the Mercy Hospital for Women, where she was planning to deliver the baby.
The reason, the GP told her, was that the Mercy – a public hospital in Melbourne’s north-east – would not assist in terminating a pregnancy due to its Catholic affiliation.
The law, modeled after one in Texas, bans abortions after about six weeks and allows some people — including relatives of rapists — to sue abortion providers.
By Mike Baker
March 23, 2022
Gov. Brad Little of Idaho signed a strict new abortion bill into law on Wednesday, even as he expressed grave concerns about the wisdom and constitutionality of the measure and warned that it could retraumatize victims of sexual assault.
Modeled after a new law in Texas, the Idaho legislation bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy — before many women are aware they are pregnant — and allows family members of what it calls “a preborn child” to sue the abortion provider. Mr. Little, a Republican, said the law could conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, which established a constitutional right to abortion.
Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/idaho-abortion-brad-little.html
Why should publicly funded hospitals get to limit access on religious grounds?
BY WENDY GLAUSER
Feb. 23, 2022 / MARCH-APRIL 2022 issue, Walrus Magazine
IN THE FALL OF 2020, Susan Camm was among a small group of employees touring a brand new seventeen-storey tower at St. Michael’s Hospital, in downtown Toronto. She liked the large single-patient rooms—a hallmark of modern hospital design—and the big windows that filled the space with sunshine. But something caught her eye: a brass crucifix on the wall. “I had an almost visceral reaction,” she recalls.
Camm, who was then a clinical manager at the hospital, had come across crucifixes at St. Michael’s before. But most had been taken down over the years. What shocked her is that the Christian symbols were in brand new rooms. This wasn’t a decision someone had made decades ago; it was one made in 2020. Later, when she had the chance to enter a patient room alone, she dragged a stool over to the crucifix, stood up, and tried to pull the figure off the wall. Unlike the ones in older rooms, it wasn’t simply hanging on a nail. She would have needed a chisel to pry it off.
Continued: https://thewalrus.ca/catholic-hospitals/
September 11 2020
ANKARA
Turkey’s top court has ruled that a woman’s rights were violated when she was denied an abortion for a pregnancy that was the result of sexual assault.
A 17-year-old young woman got pregnant as a result of sexual assault in 2017 and the survivor’s family complained about the perpetrator in the southern province of Mersin, according to the Constitutional Court’s decision.
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