7 h. ago Women of West Virginia: inform on yourself to the miscarriage police! | Arwa Mahdawi

A prosecuting attorney warns women to get ahead of law enforcement in a state where abortion is all but banned“911. What’s your emergency?”Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Fact check: Amendment would stop prosecutions of women for getting abortions

A social media user has made claims about an amendment to the crime and policing bill.

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3 d. ago JENNI MURRAY: JD Vance should keep his nose out of British women's business

I religiously took the Pill until I actually wanted to become pregnant, so I never had to face the decision of whether or not to abort an unwanted foetus.

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4 d. ago Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions

The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition

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5 d. ago '7 police officers raided my house while I tried to resuscitate my baby'

A leading abortion charity shares the gut-wrenching stories of three women who have been accused of having an illegal abortion under Britain's "archaic" abortion laws

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5 d. ago Abortion rights activists say 'decriminalisation isn't enough' ahead of Westminster vote

As MPs gather to debate an e-petition calling for the decriminalisation of abortion on June 2, abortion rights campaigners explain why decriminalisation isn't enough to protect women

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9 d. ago Farage abortion plans would have ‘catastrophic consequences for women’

Exclusive: Campaigners have raised concerns about Nigel Farage’s calls for stricter abortion laws

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1 week ago FBI to reinvestigate 2023 White House cocaine find and leak of supreme court Dobbs draft

Agency also announced new inquiry into pipe bombs found outside Democratic and Republican offices in 2021The FBI will launch new investigations into the 2023 discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House during Joe Biden’s term, as well as into pipe bombs discovered at Democratic and Republican party headquarters before the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump, and the leak of the supreme court’s draft opinion before the historic overturning of national abortion rights with the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v Wade in 2022.Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster turned deputy director of the FBI, made the announcement on X, where he said he had requested weekly briefings on any progress in looking into the old cases. The incidents have been popular talking points on America’s political right wing and among conspiracy theorists. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I'm terrified for the future of women amid new police guidance on pregnancy loss'

Feminist speaker and activist Eliza Hatch shares her fears over the UK police's "invasive" guidance, which allows them to search women's phones in the case of suspected illegal abortion

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2 w. ago Millions of women use abortion drugs safely. Experts warn anti

Analysis: Health officials are reviewing a dubious report that claims dangerous complications from mifepristone. Public health researchers and scientists tell Julia Musto and Alex Woodward they’re extremely skeptical

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3 w. ago Polish election: Tusk party urged to show it is not ‘deceiving women’ on abortion

Five years after near-total ban on abortion, campaigners say Sunday’s elections will be critical to see if promised change happensPoland’s presidential elections are a “historic, groundbreaking” chance for Donald Tusk’s centrist party to show it was not trying to “deceive women” when it promised to change some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, campaigners have said.Voters across Poland will head to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the elections to replace Andrzej Duda, the current president who is aligned with the former rightwing government and has veto power over legislation. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Campaigners say women deserve better as they seek to decriminalise abortion

A new amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill is being brought by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi.

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