TAG: abortion

Abortion Rates Alone Don’t Tell Us What We Need to Know About the State of Reproductive Wellness

by Steph Herold, Sea Change Program June 11, 2015 – 11:33 am While a new Associated Press report suggests the abortion rate is declining in almost all states, we still don’t know whether there’s been an increase in reproductive wellness. Focusing only on a lowered abortion rate as metric of health and well-being is both […]

Pharmacy Access to Medical Abortion in India: Reality, Necessity & Potential

by Dr Nozer Shariar Past Secretary General & Chairperson, MTP Committee, Federation of Obstetric & Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI); Past President,Mumbai Obstetric & Gynecological Society; Member, Technical Expert Committee, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India; Member, Board of Directors,Ipas & C3 India Member, Medical Advisory Panel,Family Planning Association of India […]

Mozambique decriminalises same-sex sexual conduct between consenting adults

After decriminalizing abortion last December, Mozambique has once again taken an important step toward sexual rights by decriminalizing same-sexual relations between consenting adults. The change was celebrated by civil society in the African country.

No Province Should Deny Women Abortions

Abortion is legal in Canada and has been for over 30 years. There are no criminal laws restricting access to abortion or post-abortion care in Canada and it is a recognized essential medical procedure, required to be fully accessible and financially covered by provincial and territorial health insurance plans under the Canada Health Act.

Sexual politics in May 2015

In early May, SPW re-launched its website. Its new architecture allows an easier access to our products, publications and other contents. In particular, we call your attention to new SPW products, the good news of observer’s status granted by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) and […]

Taking Action to Combat State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women Worldwide

by Leila Hessini, Ipas / Global Fund for Women and Beatriz Galli May 28, 2015 – 12:23 pm May 28 is the International Day of Action for Women’s Health—a day advocates have commemorated since 1987. This year, the focus is on institutional violence. (Shutterstock) Violence against women is one of the most pervasive human rights […]

The GOP: Fiddling With Your Uterus While Our Country Burns

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check May 14, 2015 – 4:06 pm At a time when the nation is facing numerous crises, including crumbling and increasingly dangerous infrastructure, the GOP leadership in Congress is deregulating and defunding services and agencies that save people’s lives, while obsessing about abortion bans. And for this […]

Sexuality around the world: Main debates

_______________________________________________________ Relevant meetings The V Conference of ILGA-LAC was held in Curitiba, Brazil, from January 26th to 30th, 2010. Regional highlights > Read these information in “Around the World – regional highlights” Also at the regional levels Latin America > Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) website (information in Eng / Port […]

Morocco health minister says he favours abortion

Health Minister El Hossein Louardi came out in support of lifting Morocco’s ban on abortion, saying women should control their own bodies, in an interview published on Friday. He spoke to the weekly Tel Quel amid a debate sparked by the fact that hundreds of illegal abortions take place in the kingdom every day. “I […]

Ecuador’s Left punishes women rights

by By Manuela L. Picq* A debate on abortion suspended the voting on the new penal code in the Ecuadorian Congress this week. Congresswoman Soledad Buendía, from President Correa’s party Alianza PAIS, made a forceful move demanding that Article 149 of the Constitution legalizes abortion in cases of rape. Her motion was supported by congresswomen María […]

Criminalization of Abortions Among Young Women: Analysis of the Public Safety and Justice Systems in Rio de Janeiro

Read the article Young Women: Analysis of the Public Safety and Justice Systems in Rio de Janeiro, by Carla Gomes and Beatriz Galli.

The abortion frontline in Brazil: one step forward

Fábio Grotz & Sonia Corrêa Abortion is criminalized in Brazil, except in the cases of woman’s life risk, rape and anencephalic mal formation of the fetus. Though the topic is usually spoken about in whispers in daily conversations – and in many social contexts, abortion remains a taboo – clandestine and unsafe termination of pregnancy […]