This year, over four billion people in more than 40 countries have already or will be going to the polls. As anti-rights groups intensify their efforts to roll back progress on gender justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and access to abortion and reproductive health care, the stakes have never been higher.

Seeking to more effectively protect and promote abortion rights in Africa, Ipas and key partners have launched CATALYSTS—an ambitious, Africa-led coalition of abortion rights advocates.

Today’s dismissal offers only a delay to extremist politicians’ crusade to override the rights of pregnant people at all costs.

Today the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the anti-abortion case that sought to reverse the FDA’s approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone—based on false claims that the drug is unsafe. The ruling ensures that mifepristone will remain available.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade one year ago. Since then, millions of Americans have lost access to abortion. Ipas’s global network has also seen a ripple effect around the world, with impacts in many of the countries where we work.

The global ripple effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down the constitutional right to abortion in the United States is being felt in Kenya.

Around the world, countries are expanding abortion rights and access. Since 2000, 37 countries have liberalized abortion laws. Sadly, the United States is poised to go backward.