Olivia Rodrigo brought out Lily Allen during her Glastonbury set to perform the singer’s hit song F*** You in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a landmark case, ending the country’s constitutional right to abortion.

Abortion clinics in at least eight US states stopped performing abortions and others began to close after the Supreme Court removed American women’s constitutional right to the procedure.

The states issued a joint “multi-state commitment”, saying they will work together to defend patients and medical professionals providing reproductive health care

An 11-year-old girl who became pregnant after she was raped has finally received a legal abortion after being blocked for weeks by a judge in Brazil.

The House of Commons voted 215 to 70, majority 145, in favour of the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022.

Figures show that 206 women and girls with addresses in the Republic of Ireland sought abortion care, with a further 161 travelling from Northern Ireland

A telemedicine abortion option is set to be introduced in Northern Ireland when services are fully rolled out, the Secretary of State has indicated.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has signed into law the strictest abortion ban in the US, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.

The Spanish government approved a draft bill that widens abortion rights for teenagers and may make Spain the first country in Europe entitling workers to paid menstrual leave.

Abortion rights supporters have staged hundreds of marches and rallies across the US to express outrage that the Supreme Court appears prepared to scrap the constitutional right to termination.

Supporters of abortion rights took to the streets across the US on Saturday to make clear their anger at the prospect that the Supreme Court will soon strike down the constitutional right to abortion.

The Senate has fallen far short in a rushed effort to enshrine abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster in a blunt display of the nation’s partisan divide over the landmark court decision and the limits of legislative ...

Research finds slow pathway to secondary care in hospitals and an uneven distribution and incomplete geographic coverage of abortion services are issues

Media interference by the EU and the Irish government prevents people from making informed decisions about the Ukraine conflict

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.