Ireland – Women cannot wait any longer for abortion care reform

Government must implement abortion review recommendations now
Ivana Bacik TD
17 June 2026

Labour Leader Ivana Bacik TD has called on Government to urgently implement all recommendations of the O’Shea Review into abortion services and set out a clear timeline for reforming Ireland’s abortion laws. Speaking during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil today, Deputy Bacik said that while the Taoiseach’s support for removing the mandatory three-day waiting period was welcome, much broader reform is needed to ensure women can access healthcare in Ireland without unnecessary obstacles or having to travel abroad.

Deputy Bacik said: “Women across Ireland are still being failed by a healthcare system that continues to place unnecessary barriers between them and the care they need. Despite the historic repeal of the Eighth Amendment in 2018, at least 1,500 women have travelled abroad for abortion care since then. For those women, the promise of accessible reproductive healthcare has not yet been fulfilled.

Continued: https://labour.ie/news/2026/06/17/women-cannot-wait-any-longer-for-abortion-care-reform/

17.06.2026

Opinion

3-day waiting requirement

fatal foetal abnormality

Ivana Bacik

O'Shea Review of abortion services

Sarah Game’s bill restricting late-term abortion access voted down in lower house

By Thomas Kelsall
June 17, 2026

South Australia’s lower house has voted down a bill to restrict access to late-term abortion, after the legislation had earlier passed the upper house.

The bill was defeated 36 votes to 9 shortly after 9:30pm ACST, following less than two hours of debate. Only 12 of the 47 MPs in the lower house spoke on the bill.

Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/abortion-bill-voted-down-in-lower-house/106808360

Luxembourg officially enshrines abortion rights in constitution

MPs voted for the second time on Tuesday on putting the protection of women’s rights into the constitution

Alexandra Thill
June 16, 2026

Lawmakers on Tuesday voted to officially enshrine abortion rights in Luxembourg’s constitution, rubber-stamping a decision made earlier in the year, which makes the Grand Duchy the second country in the world to protect women’s reproductive rights in its highest laws.

“I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that we are making history today,” Marc Baum, from the left-wing Déi Lénk party told MPs in his speech in parliament on Tuesday afternoon.

Continued: https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/luxembourg-officially-enshrines-abortion-rights-in-constitution/157310179.html

16.06.2026

News

abortion law reform

Déi Lénk party

enshrining abortion rights in constitution

Ireland – Taoiseach and Tánaiste to back Sinn Féin bill removing three-day abortion waiting period

Free vote for Government TDs as legislation advances to remove mandatory delay before accessing abortion care.

Tue, 16 Jun, 2026
Louise Burne

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris will both vote in favour of a Sinn Féin bill to remove the three-day waiting period for abortion services.

The Dáil is set to debate a bill tabled by Sinn Féin on Tuesday evening that seeks to remove the three-day reflection period that a woman must wait between seeking an abortion from a doctor and accessing the service.

continued: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41863755.html

16.06.2026

News

3-day waiting requirement

8th Amendment

mandatory waiting period

Sri Lanka – Women’s reproductive rights: Mercy suspended: 30 years’ wait for medical termination of pregnancy

14 Jun 2026
by Methmalie Dissanayake

“Trapped inside the womb without even a drop of fluid around him, my little boy suffered. His tiny arms and legs became bent, and his growth slowed more and more. Yet I was told there was nothing that could be done from the outside to help him.”

A mother, who wished to remain unnamed, said this about her son, whom she lost four hours after he was born. She had carried him from the 16th week – when a scan first revealed that the amniotic fluid around him had begun to decrease – through nine weeks of intermittent bleeding and fluid discharge, to a 29th-week emergency caesarean section. She had been told, repeatedly and plainly, that her son would not survive.

Continued: https://www.themorning.lk/articles/7SF1AVNmliDXAw9Y1YSY

14.06.2026

Commentary

birth defects

College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka

Dr. Kapila Jayaratne

fatal fetal abnormalities

Ireland – Sinn Féin proposes bill to remove three-day wait for abortion

13 Jun 2026
Sinn Féin is to bring forward legislation to remove a three-day wait period for abortions in early pregnancy.

At present, there is a three-day waiting period between GP consultations prior to a termination. Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald announced the party will move legislation in the Dáil on Tuesday to remove this provision.

She said: “We believe that this legislation will be passed. The three-day wait should never have been introduced and has had serious consequences.

Continued: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/sinn-fein-proposes-bill-to-remove-three-day-wait-for-abortion/a/157161671.html

13.06.2026

News

3-day waiting requirement

Mary Lou McDonald

Sinn Féin

three-day waiting period

A shadowy overseas group is trying to influence Australian abortion policy. Who are CitizenGo and what do they want?

CitizenGo is hitching its wagon to Joanna Howe’s crusade, and the former Nationals MP George Christensen is on board

Tory Shepherd
Thu 11 Jun 2026

Among the hand-drawn signs warning of the “evil” of abortion at last week’s Sydney rally were some more professional placards. “The greatest liberty is the right to life,” the blue-and-white posters read, under a small logo for CitizenGo.

CitizenGo will not be a familiar name to many in Australia but in Europe it looms large in the anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+ rights world. An offshoot of the ultra-conservative Spanish group HazteOír (Make Yourself Heard), it was founded in Spain in 2013 and claims to have 20 million members across 50 countries.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/12/a-shadowy-overseas-group-is-trying-to-influence-australian-abortion-policy-who-are-they-and-what-do-they-want-ntwnfb

Illinois – A religious hospital denied her a life-saving drug during an ectopic pregnancy. She lost her fertility

Harmonie Perrone, 28, is suing Advocate Good Shepherd in Illinois, where reproductive rights are enshrined in law

Melody Schreiber
Mon 8 Jun 2026

Harmonie Perrone, 28, knew she was probably having an ectopic pregnancy, and she knew exactly what she needed to do: seek medical care immediately, before life-threatening complications set in.

But she was denied that care twice as she feared for her life – and, after the delay in care, she lost her fertility, she says in a new lawsuit filed Monday. All of this happened in Illinois, a top destination for abortion care, where reproductive rights are enshrined in law and medical providers are required to offer emergency care regardless of religious beliefs.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/illinois-hospital-ectopic-pregnancy

Nationals MPs ‘targeted’ over NSW sex-selection abortion ban, MP claims

A Nationals MP targeted over a bill to ban sex-selection abortion has accused campaign organisers of being “politically mischievous”.

Nathan Schmidt
June 8, 2026

A Nationals MLC targeted over a bill to ban sex-selection abortion in NSW has accused campaign organisers of being “politically mischievous” amid a surge in support for One Nation, and that the Bill was a “dog whistle” for debate around “migration and differences of religion”.

Wes Fang took to social media over the weekend to call-out “misinformation” around Libertarian MLC John Ruddick’s abortion Law Reform Amendment (Sex Selection Prohibition) Bill 2025, which is expected to be debated during a conscience vote later this year.

Continued: https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/nationals-mps-targeted-over-nsw-sexselection-abortion-ban-mp-claims/news-story/0ef45ecf4c99b9b0bbfcc4e8fc50ecbd

08.06.2026

Law Reform Amendment (Sex Selection Prohibition) Bill 2025

One Nation party

sex-selection abortion

Nigeria – Ogun monarch backs reforming legalisation of safe abortion guidelines

June 7, 2026

The Oloruba of Oruba-Ota, Aworiland, and a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Champion, Oba Wadudu Ajani Eniade Deinde (Ariwajoye I), has thrown his weight behind the legalisation of the Safe Termination of Pregnancy (SToP) bill, calling on the Ogun State House of Assembly to pass the bill into law.

Oba Deinde made the appeal during an advocacy visit to his palace by a women’s advocacy group, Trust and Support Foundation (TSF), led by its Executive Director of the group, Mrs. Victoria Madukwem, at Ota, Ogun State.

The monarch pleaded with the state Assembly to quickly pass the bill into law for the safety and benefits of women and young girls who were victims of rape, incest, noting that ‘SToP’ guidelines would give way for unsafe abortion being perpetrated by married women and girls of gender-based violence.

Continued: https://thenationonlineng.net/ogun-monarch-backs-reforming-legalisation-of-safe-abortion-guidelines/

07.06.2026