India – Supreme Court allows abortion of 30-week pregnancy of a minor, upholds right to reproductive autonomy

The court also said that there were cases in which women may have no other option but take the dangerous and life-threatening alternative of turning to quacks for an abortion

February 06, 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the medical termination of a 30-week-old pregnancy of a minor, while noting that a person cannot be compelled to carry her pregnancy to its full term.

“What has to be considered in the instant case is the right of the minor child to continue a pregnancy which is ex facie illegitimate in as much as she is a minor and has to face this unfortunate situation of having the pregnancy owing to a relationship that she had,” a Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan remarked in court.

Continued; https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-allows-abortion-of-30-week-pregnancy-of-a-minor-upholds-right-to-reproductive-autonomy/article70600629.ece

06.02.2026

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B V Nagarathna

India Supreme Court

Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971

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US Appeals Court declines rehearing, block on Guam’s 1990 abortion ban stays

By Joe Taitano II, Pacific Daily News
Feb 5, 2026

A federal appeals court this week declined to rehear a case that could have seen Guam’s long-dead 1990 abortion ban revived.

It is “impossible” for the federal court to grant Guam Attorney General Douglas Moylan any relief in the push to have the abortion ban in Public Law 20-134 enforced, judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote in a Feb. 3 order.

But any future abortion ban enacted by Guam lawmakers would not be held back by the existing federal injunction blocking the 1990 ban, according to a statement attached to the order.

Continued: https://www.guampdn.com/news/us-appeals-court-declines-rehearing-block-on-guams-1990-abortion-ban-stays/article_bd314b9f-29cd-4df3-8dbf-f14010c99ee6.html

05.02.2026

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The Abortion Ban That Didn’t End Abortion in Poland

Five years after Poland's top court gutted abortion rights, access to legal procedures has quietly expanded – but only for women who learned to work within a system designed to say ‘no’.

Ada Petriczko
February 4, 2026

Edyta was 29 weeks pregnant when the MRI results came back. She opened the report in a hospital corridor in Warsaw. Missing temporal bone. Disrupted neuronal migration. Abnormalities in the corpus callosum.

“I just stood there. I couldn’t move,” she tells BIRN. “The entire pregnancy everyone kept saying nothing was wrong – and then suddenly my baby's brain wasn’t developing normally.”

Continued: https://balkaninsight.com/2026/02/04/polands-precarious-post-abortion-ban-compromise-leaves-women-at-mercy-of-the-system/

America’s culture wars are killing people overseas

When “pro-life” foreign aid hurts women and children the most.

by Sara Herschander
Jan 30, 2026

“The mark of barbarism is that we treat babies like inconveniences to be discarded,” Vice President JD Vance bellowed to a crowd of zoomer nuns, bagpipers, and white nationalists at the annual March for Life in Washington, DC, last Friday.

The vice president then proceeded to announce a threefold expansion of the Mexico City policy, a decades-old, controversial foreign policy that prohibits organizations from receiving foreign aid if they mention abortion as a family planning option. It was reinstated last year when President Donald Trump resumed office.

Continued: https://archive.is/vdb65

(https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/477125/foreign-aid-dei-gender-global-gag-mexico-city)

Supreme Court rules 13-year-old can have abortion in her ‘best interests’

A 13-year-old Qld girl has been granted a medical abortion after a judge found she could not understand the consequences of giving birth or raising a child.

Vanda Carson
January 30, 2026

An 13-year-old from the West Moreton Bay region who was pregnant to her teen boyfriend has been given the green light to take an abortion pill, after a Supreme Court judge ruled she was not competent to make the decision.

In a ruling published on Friday January 30, Supreme Court Justice Michael Copley ruled on November 11 that the West Moreton Hospital and Health Service could give the girl – given the pseudonym B – medications that would cause cramps and bleeding and end the pregnancy.

Continued: https://archive.is/liag8
(https://www.couriermail.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-qld/supreme-court-rules-13yearold-can-have-abortion-in-her-best-interests/news-story/7d8f5203d31681c1a4acc77f16259059)

30.01.2026

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West Moreton Hospital and Health Service

Ireland – ‘You can buy Viagra over the counter’: Bill to abolish three-day abortion wait introduced

Ruth Coppinger says 72-hour delay ‘does not apply to any other medical procedure that we have in law’

Marie O’Halloran
Thu Jan 29 2026

Legislation to abolish the three-day waiting period for abortion on request has been introduced in the Dáil.

Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger said “termination of pregnancy is a health procedure that is extremely time sensitive” and the 2018 Act introduced a mandatory 72-hour cooling off period before a second appointment to access abortion.

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said the Government was not opposing the legislation “at first stage”.

Continued: https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2026/01/29/you-can-buy-viagra-over-the-counter-bill-to-abolish-three-day-abortion-wait-introduced/

Jersey – Proposed abortion law reform would ‘remove stigma’

January 29, 2026
Matthew Gray

Women in Jersey will no longer need to justify their reasons for seeking an abortion if a proposed new law is approved.

The minister for health and social services wants to introduce legislation that would allow abortions before 22 weeks and remove current barriers.

The current law in Jersey requires two doctors to agree a woman is in distress before she can have a termination up to 12 weeks. Deputy Andy Howell, assistant health minister, said the proposed changes would help to "take away stigma".

Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdjpd49mrmo

29.01.2026

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abortion law reform legalizing abortion to 22 weeks

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Christian Action Research and Education

UK – Woman denies abortion clinic ‘buffer zone’ offence

January 29, 2026
Tom Edwards

A woman has pleaded not guilty to a public order offence after being accused of silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham.

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, 48, from Malvern in Worcestershire, is the first person in England and Wales to be charged under new "buffer zone" legislation which came into force in October 2024 and restricts some activities near abortion facilities.

Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgdj3r00p6o

29.01.2026

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Isabel Vaughan-Spruce

Liberia: Former Legislator and Abortion Advocate Says Public Health Bill Is Not “Abortion on Demand,” But Live Saving Measure

By Joyclyn Wea
January 29, 2026

When a pregnancy turns dangerous, doctors do not always have time to debate words. Liberian pharmacist and former politician Joseph Somwarbi told a recent workshop in Monrovia that abortion opponents have taken advantage of the issue to score political points at the cost of thousands of Liberian women’s and children’s lives.

Somwarbi, who said he lost his seat as representative from Nimba County and his role as chairman of the House Committee on Health over his support for the bill, said the abortion provision is designed to give doctors, women, and their families the chance to save women’s lives when pregnancy is threatening to kill or injure them and the unborn child.

Continued: https://frontpageafricaonline.com/health/liberia-former-legislator-and-abortion-advocate-says-public-health-bill-is-not-abortion-on-demand-but-live-saving-measure/

29.01.2026

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SOUTH KOREA – Prosecutors seek prison terms in 36-week abortion case

Jan. 27, 2026
Shin Ji-hye

Prosecutors have sought prison terms for a woman who underwent an abortion at around 36 weeks of pregnancy as well as for the doctor who performed the procedure and the hospital director involved, local media reported Monday.

At a hearing held Monday at the Seoul Central District Court, prosecutors requested a 10-year prison sentence for the 81-year-old hospital director surnamed Yoon, along with a fine of 5 million won ($3,456) and criminal forfeiture of 1.15 billion won. They sought six-year prison terms for the 26-year-old patient surnamed Kwon and for the doctor, 61, surnamed Shim. All three are charged with murder.

Continued: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10663768

27.01.2026

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Mother and Child Health Act

Seoul Central District Court