For those of us watching the US from Britain, the question after the celebrations is straightforward: how much can these results actually stop? A stronger opposition in Congress can block legislation, scrutinise the administration and challenge its spending decisions. But an electoral setback does not remove Trump’s other routes to restricting abortion. Watch the pills.... Read More

Parliament votes for abortion reform. Campaigners have done the organising. Then one man stands in the way and progress is halted. Two stories from the past week put that power under the spotlight. Last week in Liechtenstein, Prince Alois used the first veto of his reign to block a parliament-backed abortion reform backed by almost... Read More

Manna Mostaghim is a researcher and PhD candidate in the Health Policy Department at the London School of Economics. Her research examines race and gender in healthcare and health infrastructure, and her doctoral research focuses on the provision of publicly subsidised IVF for women with a high BMI in the UK. On the 59th anniversary... Read More

From Poland’s cautious progress to the US midterms and fresh warnings about reproductive healthcare in Britain, it’s another week of political battles, difficult questions and unfinished business. Abortion rights are back in the headlines this week, although not always for the reasons we’d like. In Poland, lawmakers have taken a tentative step towards easing some... Read More

Donald Trump’s new press secretary has links to an organisation whose founder advocates executing women for abortions. New polling reveals opposition to abortion bans in America’s Deep South. And in Scotland the SNP has been forced into a U-turn over an anti-abortion conference event. Quite a week. Trump’s New Press Secretary.  Donald Trump’s new White... Read More

There is more than one way to restrict abortion. You can ban it. You can criminalise it. Or you can make it harder and harder to actually get. This week gave us a pretty stark example of that. In the US, three states are trying a new legal tactic against abortion pills sent to people... Read More

Manna Mostaghim is a researcher and PhD candidate in the Health Policy Department at the London School of Economics. Her research examines race and gender in healthcare and health infrastructure, and her doctoral research focuses on the provision of publicly subsidised IVF for women with a high BMI in the UK. For a pregnant person... Read More

This week, people took to the streets across Latin America for International Safe Abortion Day. In Chile and Colombia, protesters were demanding what should be obvious: abortion rights have to mean more than words on paper. They have to mean being able to get an abortion when you need one. In Chile, abortion is still... Read More

We have pointed out that we keep hearing the same line from the far right: they’re doing all this to “protect women and girls”. Sorry, but protecting us from what exactly? Because this week alone, reporting in Britain showed that around 20,000 women a year disclose domestic abuse to maternity services in England, with midwives... Read More

A week in reproductive rights and far-right nonsense. No, abortion pills are not poisoning your drinking water. Cannot believe we have to say that, but here we are. Anti-abortion campaigners in the US have been pushing the idea that mifepristone is contaminating the water supply and creating some kind of environmental crisis. There is no... Read More