Those who care about the welfare of pregnant people and children must urge the US Supreme Court to uphold Roe v Wade

The abortion landscape has changed in the United States since the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision in 1973.

The owner of an Alabama abortion clinic was flying home from a conference with other abortion providers on Monday night when a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion began ricocheting around the world.

US president Joe Biden has blasted a “radical” draft Supreme Court opinion that would throw out the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade abortion rights ruling that has stood for half-a-century and warned that other rights, including same-sex marriage and birth ...

In an unprecedented revelation, a document written by Justice Samuel Alito says ‘Roe was egregiously wrong from the start’

Irish Family Planning Association tells Oireachtas committee the fear of prosecution 'sits in the consultation room between a patient and doctor'

The threat of criminal sanctions hangs over medical practitioners who provide abortion services in Ireland, politicians have been told.

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer launched a preemptive lawsuit on Thursday to protect abortion rights, asking a court to recognise a right to abortion under the state constitution and to overturn a 176-year-old ban in the state that may take ...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) annual report shows 45% of abortions performed globally are unsafe.

“It has become increasingly clear the Northern Ireland Department of Health will fail to commission abortion services in full by the deadline I set out last year, despite being given every opportunity to do so."

Officials suggest Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill could impact friends and partners of women seeking abortions

Now that the three-year review provided for in the 2018 Act is under way, Irish women need to be aware that rights they have won can be threatened, as is happening in the United States

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has issued an order decriminalising abortion, making the country the fourth in Latin America to do so.

In the nearly two months since a conservative majority of justices on the US Supreme Court indicated openness to dramatic new restrictions on abortion, money has poured into the political fundraising arm of the anti-abortion group Susan B Anthony ...

Ashling Murphy's tragic death may be the spark that forces us to take action so women can finally feel safe in their own bodies

Thousands of anti-abortion protesters have rallied in the US capital Friday with a growing sense of optimism that their goal was finally in reach: a sweeping rollback of abortion rights.

Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws were liberalised in 2019, but provision of services has yet to be fully rolled out across the region amid a political dispute over the highly sensitive issue

More than 190 women and girls went to the UK in 2020 for abortion services

Three El Salvador women who were jailed for 30 years under the nation’s strict anti-abortion laws after suffering obstetric emergencies have been released, according to campaigners.

A bid to exclude cases of fatal foetal impairment from abortion laws in Northern Ireland has fallen following a close vote at Stormont.

The DUP and Ulster Unionists have been accused of denying abortion services to women in Northern Ireland by deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill.

A public consultation process has been launched as part of a review of legislation, but TDs criticised the delay in appointing an independent chairperson as part of the review.

A resurgent anti-abortion movement in the US is looking to press its advantage in state-by-state battles as the Supreme Court weighs the future of the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision.

The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority have signalled they will allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy and may even overturn the nationwide right that has existed for nearly 50 years.

Former US vice president Mike Pence has called on the Supreme Court to “make history” by overturning the historic decision that legalised abortion nationally.

Plus, Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming take off in a motorhome; the Birmingham Six miscarriage of justice examined; and RTÉ Investigates: A Patient’s Nightmare on television this evening

In 2018, Ireland finally voted to legalise terminations. Before that condoms, divorce and abortion were illegal and shameful

Ms Halappanavar was the 31-year-old Indian dentist who died in a Galway hospital after doctors refused to perform an abortion as she miscarried

The majority of Americans support legal abortion, however, redistricting has allowed extremism to flourish without fear of repercussion, writes Meaghan Winter

The Biden administration is asking the US Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s validity plays out in the courts.

The Biden administration is to turn to the US Supreme Court in an attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.

Abortion laws in Northern Ireland were liberalised in 2019 following legislation passed by Westminster at a time when the power-sharing government in the region had collapsed.

The Biden administration urged the courts again Monday night to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remained busy with Texas patients making long journeys to ...

A federal appeals court has allowed Texas to resume banning most abortions, just one day after clinics began racing to serve patients again for the first time since early September.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the US, which since September has banned most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state.

The Biden administration has reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the US Supreme Court.

The argument was made during a legal challenge to a move by Secretary of State Brandon Lewis to press Stormont to formally roll out abortion services

Thousands of people have marched on the US Supreme Court in Washington as part of nationwide protests demanding continued access to abortion, as conservative politicians and judges put it in jeopardy.

The first Women’s March of the Biden administration headed straight for the steps of the Supreme Court, part of nationwide protests that drew thousands to Washington and other cities to demand continued access to abortion.

The Biden administration urged a US federal judge to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September and sent women racing to get care beyond the borders of the second-most populous ...

The Texas law, known as SB8, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually at around six weeks, before some women know they are pregnant

Women’s rights activists in San Marino, a republic of 33,000 people in central Italy, have welcomed the microstate’s decision to legalise abortion.

The protest called for the introduction of Safe Access Zones, and aimed to draw attention to the difficulty of accessing the service in some areas, especially in the North-West.

Mr Pence spoke at a forum devoted to demographics and family values in Budapest, Hungary, where conservative leaders from central Europe expressed their anxieties about falling birth rates in the Western world