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WASHINGTON — Immediately following a report that United States Supreme Court justices would overturn Roe v. Wade, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders announced that they would work on putting the right to an abortion in the state Constitution.

Last month, 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera was arrested in Texas and charged with murder over a self-induced abortion.

The past 20 years have seen a significant decline in maternal mortality rates from 342 deaths to 211 per 100,000 globally . But every day, more than 800 women around the world die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, up to 42 days after delivery. Most of these deaths are…

This week’s leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade came as more than half of U.S. states are poised to outlaw abortion if the Supreme Court does strike down the 1973 decision. In those states, many in the South and Midwest, it already feels like the…

The US Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark ruling that led to the constitutional right to abortion in America

More than 210,000 abortions took place in England and Wales in 2020

Anti-abortion legislation in the US could outlaw abortions even in medical emergencies

Forcing unwanted pregnancies to continue is traumatic sexual abuse — it will destroy lives. That's fact, not theory

Ruling enshrined women’s right to terminate a pregnancy

If the draft supreme court decision is not substantially altered it would result in 26 states banning the procedure

If the Supreme Court’s conservative majority affirms the leaked decision overturning abortion rights in the U.S., the effects would be sweeping for 40 million women in more than two dozen states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the repudiation of the right to terminate a pregnancy.