Beyond the fact that the U.S. is legally bound by human rights treaties it has ratified, the devastation unleashed by the reversal of Roe should compel us to look for stronger foundations for abortion ...

“Justice was done,” declared Beatriz’s mother, after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the state of El Salvador, which, under severe legislation, prevented her from having an abortion ...

A coalition of human rights organizations urged the international community on Friday to safeguard abortion care providers. A report, released on International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, ...

Adriana Smith was a 30-year-old mother and nurse. She was two months pregnant when she went to an Atlanta emergency room with intense headaches. She was given medication and sent home, but the next ...

NEW YORK, Oct 15 2024 (IPS) - The right to abortion is a human rights issue that no government agency, courts, local and state legislators, or anyone else has the right to violate or impede in any ...

After learning her fetus was not viable, a woman in Missouri was denied an abortion in her state. A mother of three in Georgia couldn’t afford another child and was forced to travel hundreds of miles ...

Last month marked 53 years since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. Although the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision in 2022 reversed Roe, it has done little to reduce the number ...

The Georgetown University Global Health Institute invited four reproductive health and justice experts to weigh in on the human rights impacts of abortion bans in the United States at an April 18 ...

A South Korean government proposal would allow medication abortion in South Korea in 2027, but overly restrictive regulations ...

For nearly 50 years in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court asserted that the U.S. Constitution protected the right to access abortion under Roe v. Wade. But on June 24, 2022, the Dobbs decision ...