Tag: Abortion

People around the world marked International Women's Day Friday with protests, demonstrations and celebrations. France, for its part, inscribed guaranteed right to abortion into its constitution. Thousands of people demonstrated in France's major cities including Bordeaux, Lyon, and Marseille, but also in smaller ones like Orléans, Quimper and Belfort. ...

Deputy Drugs Controller, Kashmir Nighat Jabeen Shah SRINAGAR, Jan 6: Jammu & Kashmir’s Drug Control Department and Excise officials on Saturday thwarted illegal import of medical abortion kits at Srinagar Airport.Officials said acting on crucial intelligence, a joint team of Drug Control department and State ...

“There is a deeply-rooted patriarchal mindset that is still very normal in India, and many people still see girls and women as burdens,” Jaglan, 41, told This Week in Asia. “That is why families choose to get rid of girls before they are born.”Women face violence and pressure from ...

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.Mains Examination: General Studies I: Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies.—The decision follows an interim order in July by which the court had allowed a 25-year-old woman to ...

NEW DELHI, Sept 29: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that unmarried woman can undergo abortion up to 24 weeks.The apex court said that all women are entitled to safe and legal abortion. The SC said the marital status of a woman can’t be ground to deprive her right ...

Durham (UK), June 27: It’s striking that, as with many other gender equality issues, the positions of men in relation to abortion are rarely discussed.In some regards, this is for good reasons. Abortion is a healthcare issue for women (and trans and non-binary people with uteruses). It’s about them ...

Melbourne: The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion had been indicated via a leaked draft opinion some weeks ago, but that doesn’t diminish the impact it will have.The ruling handed down by the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, upends 50 years of reproductive rights ...

With the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leadership caught unawares by the rebellion in the Shiv Sena, many in Maharashtra’s political circles are upset about the “intelligence failure” that left the government in the dark about Shinde’s coup. Top police officers, however, said that Uddhav used to sparingly take intelligence briefings, a ...

Olympic hurdles champion Brianna Rollins-McNeal’s experience echoes Richards-Ross's claims. Rollins-McNeal is currently serving a five-year ban for “tampering with the results management process” connected with her missing a doping test two days after she had an abortion in January 2020. The 30-year-old, who faced a previous ban for missing ...

Issued on: 11/05/2022 - 19:02 The Iranian Health Ministry announced on April 16 that doctors and midwives in Iran would be banned from running screening tests in pregnancy – tests which can reveal abnormalities or certain conditions in the fetus, a move that sparked indignation from activists in the ...