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

Pre-Abortion Counseling in Belarus May Amount to Psychological Abuse of Women — White Coats

28.08.2026

The White Coats initiative studied the teaching and methodological manual “Family Pre-Abortion Counseling” and concluded that it constitutes guidance on psychological abuse of a person in a vulnerable position.

Belarusian law provides women with the right to abortion, but also contains vague wording on pre-abortion psychological counseling.

Continued: https://reform.news/en/pre-abortion-counseling-in-belarus-may-amount-to-psychological-abuse-of-women-white-coats/

28.08.2026

Commentary

Dzyyana Berahautsova

Family Pre-Abortion Conuseling

mandatory counseling

pre-abortion counseling

Changing perspectives and transforming practices in Burkina Faso

FIGO
August 28, 2026

“What if this woman were my sister, my daughter or someone dear to me?” In a training room in Burkina Faso, this question opens a space for reflection. It does not seek to impose an answer, but to encourage everyone to view a situation – often shrouded in taboos, beliefs and judgements – in a different light.

Understanding personal values to provide better care
For healthcare providers, abortion can raise personal, moral, cultural or religious questions. These perceptions can sometimes influence the way a patient is received, informed or referred.

Continued: https://www.figo.org/news/changing-perspectives-and-transforming-practices-burkina-faso

28.08.2026

Commentary

clandestine abortion

FIGO

Société des Gynécologues et Obstétriciens du Burkina

Values Clarification and Attitude Transformation

Health experts call for urgent reforms to make abortion care affordable across Australia

27 August 2026

Australia’s federal, state and territory governments must address significant cost and accessibility barriers preventing too many Australians from accessing vital abortion care, according to a Monash University-led coalition of health and medical experts, advocates and service providers.

The SPHERE Coalition, formed in 2020 to advocate for more equitable and improved sexual and reproductive health care in Australia, has today released a roadmap of nine recommendations to reduce out-of-pocket costs and improve equitable access to abortion care.

Continued: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/news/latest/2026-articles/health-experts-call-for-urgent-reforms-to-make-abortion-care-affordable-across-australia

27.08.2026

News

Danielle Mazza

National Abortion Affordability Roundtable

National Health and Medical Research Council

National Women’s Health Strategy 2020-2030

A Community of Practice paves the way for women’s rights in West Africa

20 Aug 2016
FIGO

Five years ago in Mali, abortion was not a topic of discussion – not in hospitals, not within government ministries and not even among gynecologists. Doctors avoided the subject, and there were no data on it because the issue itself was excluded from public discourse.

Today, things are changing. Abortion is the subject of more open discussions among health professionals, religious leaders and policymakers across the country and beyond its borders.

For Dr Youssouf Traoré, secretary general of the African Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SAGO), this development is nothing short of extraordinary.

Continued: https://www.figo.org/news/community-practice-paves-way-womens-rights-west-africa

20.08.2026

Commentary

Advocating for Safe Abortion Project

Dr Youssouf Traoré

International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

SAGO

South African Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

‘Women from Wales come to my London clinic because of inadequate abortion care’

Aug 17, 2026
Kate Morgan, Laura Butler

Some women in Wales could be forced into continuing unwanted pregnancies because of inadequate surgical abortion care, according to a senior obstetrician.

Dr Ed Dorman said he treated women from Wales every other week at a British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) clinic in London but is worried about the "unknown number" who he said had little choice but to continue their pregnancies.

BBC Wales has been told women from Wales face the added "trauma" of travelling to England for care after 18 weeks of pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9wvg03pk5o

Australia – Improving access to medical abortion in rural and remote areas

Aug 14, 2026
Dr Preeya Alexander, ABC Radio National
Podcast – 6:20 minutes

A recent study shows a lack of access to medical abortion care for women living in rural and remote areas, as discussed in our earlier story, Access to medical abortion still lacking.

We followed up with the college that upholds best practice in rural and remote care, to see how this is being addressed.

Guest: Dr Rod Martin, President, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport/improving-access-to-medical-abortion-in-remote-and-rural-areas/107032504

14.08.2026

Interviews/Podcasts

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Netherlands – Doctors want more hospitals to offer late-term abortions

August 3, 2026

The Dutch association of gynaecologists, the NVOG, and the healthcare inspectorate IGJ want more hospitals to carry out late-term abortions – between 22 and 24 weeks – saying access to the care is not currently assured for all women.

Abortion is legal in the Netherlands up to 24 weeks. Terminations up to 22 weeks usually take place in abortion clinics, while those between 22 and 24 weeks are carried out in hospitals, of which only a small number currently do so.

Sanne Gordijn, head of obstetrics at the UMCG in Groningen, one of the few hospitals already providing the care, said some women were travelling to Spain, Britain or parts of the United States because they could not get a termination here.

Continued: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/08/doctors-want-more-hospitals-to-offer-late-term-abortions/

03.08.2026

News

Dutch Association of Gynaecologists

Australia – GP abortion care still falling short

21 July 2026
By Alyssa Talakovski

While medication abortion provision has expanded, the overall proportion of general practices offering it remains low, new research shows.

Medical abortions (MAs) through GPs rose twentyfold between 2014 and 2021 despite the fact that fewer than one in three general practices offered the service at all, researchers say.

The Flinders University-led study, published in BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, examined MA provision among females aged 14-49 from 2014 to 2021 across six states and territories – excluding SA and NT, where abortion was legal only at approved centres during that period.

Continued: https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/gp-abortion-care-still-falling-short/127480

21.07.2026

Research

Australian Contraception and Abortion Primary Care Practitioner Support Network

South Korea – Despite Chilling Warnings, Women Still Seek Dangerous Off-Label Drugs for Abortion

Video transcript only, the video is not available outside Korea.

Park Ha-jeong
Tue Jul 21, 2026

Seven years have passed since the Constitutional Court ruled the abortion law unconstitutional, yet medication for pregnancy termination remains unapproved. While the government remains idle, citing a legislative vacuum, women are resorting to even receiving injections intended for chemotherapy to terminate pregnancies.

Reporter Park Ha-jeong investigates the reality.

At an obstetrics and gynecology clinic in Gyeonggi Province, when asked for a consultation on pregnancy termination, the staff suggests two methods.

Continued: https://news.sbs.co.kr/amp/news.amp?news_id=N1008666092

21.07.2026