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Recent Ipas News

 May 15 

Poll finds 83 percent of Nicaraguans are in favor of easing abortion restrictions

 May 12 

For 40 years, family planning as a human right

 May 8 

MAPnet network expands access to medical abortion in India

 May 5 

Celebrating the work of midwives

 May 1 

Improving women’s health in NC Latino communities

 April 28 

"Radio Sexado" educates Argentinean youths

 April 24 

Advocates celebrate first anniversary of safe abortion in Mexico City

 April 18 

Latin American health advocates aim to improve women’s health

 April 17 

Council of Europe calls on members to make abortion safe and legal

 April 14 

Ensuring women’s access to safe abortion technology



Ipas in the News

 April 11 

Magazine Led to Database's 'Abortion' Search Block
National Public Radio

 April 10 

Reproductive Health Database Censorship Due to Abortion Advocacy Articles
Ms. Magazine

 April 7 

Saving Nigerians from risky abortions
BBC News

 April 4 

'Abortion' Searches Are No Longer Blocked, Says Johns Hopkins U.
The Chronicle of Higher Education

 March 24 

And Our Women Continue to Die…
This Day Online

 March 9 

Ghana's Queen Moms Hold Court on Abortion
Women's eNews

 March 4 

Nigeria records 760,000 abortions yearly –Gynecologist
The Tide Online

 March 4 

55,000 women die annually from pregnancy-related diseases
The Tide Online

 February 27 

Women die when abortion is restricted
Mail & Guardian Online

 February 20 

Unsafe Abortion Leads to Maternal Death
RH Reality Check



Abortion News Updates

 May 16 

Reducing maternal mortality is easy with safe abortion
Alicia Meulensteen, RH Reality Check

 May 14 

Kenyan activists launch campaign to ease laws
Henry Neondo, Africa Science News Service

 May 9 

Therapeutic abortion: A right in name only in Colombia?
Constanza Vieira, Inter Press Service -IPS

 May 6 

British Parliament member seeks to lower abortion limit
BBC

 April 29 

Indian prime minister denounces abortion of females
Amelia Gentleman, New York Times

 April 29 

Cardinal Egan Says Giuliani Shouldn’t Have Received Communion From Pope
James Barron, New York Times

 April 26 

South Dakota to revisit restrictions on abortion
Monica Davey, New York Times

 April 24 

Duma to ban abortion ads
Moscow News Weekly

 April 24 

Forty years on, abortion battle rages in Britain
Kate Kelland, Reuters

 April 24 

Scalia: I’m conservative, but not biased
Associated Press

 April 22 

Unsafe abortion kills more than 3,000 Nigerian women each year
Lauren Carmin, Guttmacher Institute

 April 18 

Sticking to the Bit? Yale’s Abortion Artist
Mike Nizza, New York Times

 April 17 

South Carolina’s abortion-ultrasound bill headed to governor’s desk
Associated Press

 April 16 

Council of Europe member states should guarantee ‘right to access to a safe and legal abortion’, says PACE
Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe

 April 9 

U.S. state reproductive health policy in 2008
Guttmacher Institute

 April 7 

Nigeria: No condoms for Anambra state
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

 April 6 

In Italy and Spain, the abortion battle is back
Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times

 April 5 

Health Database Was Set Up to Ignore ‘Abortion’
Robert Pear, New York Times

 April 4 

Illegal abortion, South Korea’s open secret
Lee Jiyeon, Reuters

 April 4 

Court blocks Chile move on morning-after pill
Reuters

 February 15 

Primary health for all
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American Magazine

 January 31 

Abortion provider must turn over files
Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times

 January 28 

A wise and just decision, worthy of Canadians
Laura Wershler, The Calgary Herald

 January 26 

Behind the abortion decline
New York Times editorial staff, New York Times

 January 25 

Floating clinic spreads word on abortion pill
Judy Gerstel, Living Reporter

 January 22 

As Abortion rate drops, use of RU-486 is on rise
Rob Stein, Washington Post

 January 22 

Abortion experiences: 35 years after Roe v. Wade
Talk of the Nation, NPR

 January 22 

‘Human life’ amendments latest challenge to Roe
Morning Edition, NPR

 January 21 

Planned Parenthood to push candidacies
Brody Mullins, Wall Street Journal

 January 21 

Legal abortions have saved thousands of women from death and suffering
Mosotho Gabriel, Cape Times

 January 20 

Abortion rate in Illinois remains higher than in surrounding states
Kenneth Lowe, Herald & Review

 January 17 

Abortions hit lowest number since 1976
Rob Stein, Washington Post

 January 17 

South African Assembly passes abortion amendment bill
Michael Hamlyn, Mail & Guardian Online

 January 15 

Bolivia’s ‘bad births’ sit on political sidelines
Jean Friedman Rudovsky, Women’s eNews

 January 10 

Twenty-six abortions in Zyrardów
Milena Orłowska, Gazeta Wyborcza

 January 9 

Citing persecution, Spanish abortion clinics go on strike
Victoria Burnett, New York Times

 January 8 

Susan Wicklund: “This Common Secret”
The Diane Rehm Show

 January 7 

Changing abortion’s pronoun
Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times

 January 5 

Anti-abortion bill imperils Italy’s governing coalition
Bloomberg News, New York Times

 January 1 

Public institutions now offering abortion services
Iana Seales, Stabroek News

 January 1 

Row over abortion right for rape victims in Egypt
Ramadan Al Sherbini, Gulf News

 December 31 

Rape victims ‘must have abortions’
World News Australia

 December 30 

Huckabee would criminalize abortion providers
John Solomon, Washington Post

 December 29 

Zapatero rules out Spanish abortion law reform
AFP

 December 27 

Two arrested in New Mexico abortion clinic fire
Associated Press

 December 19 

A gray day in Romania
Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times

 December 17 

Dems lose fight on family planning aid
Associated Press

 December 7 

Slovak Constitutional Court rejects attempt to outlaw abortion
Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times

 December 5 

GP surgery abortions considered
BBC News

 December 5 

Abortion to split U.S. vote in 08?
BBC News

 December 4 

Colorado petition revives anti-abortion bid
P. Solomon Banda, Associated Press

 December 4 

No charges over abortion images in Georgia
Associated Press

 December 4 

Move underway to ease abortion restrictions in South Korea
Bae Ji-sook, Korea Times

 December 3 

UK Indian women aborting girls
BBC News

 December 1 

Center challenges Brazil’s record on maternal mortality
Center for Reproductive Rights

 November 29 

Former Rep. Henry Hyde, abortion foe, dies at 83
Reuters



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