<p> The Guardian – Savita Halappanavar would have survived if her pregnancy had been terminated days before she died of blood poisoning at Galway University hospital last autumn, the inquest in Galway courthouse has heard. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/17/savita-halappanavar-irish-court?INTCMP=SRCH" target="_blank">Lire la suite</a></p>
<p> The Guardian – A federal judge has struck down a Missouri law exempting moral objectors from mandatory birth control coverage because it conflicts with an insurance requirement under President Barack Obama's healthcare law. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/19/missouri-employers-exempt-birth-control?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487" target="_blank">Lire la suite</a></p>
<p> The Guardian – North Dakota is on course to introduce the most stringent restrictions on abortion in the US after the state senate on Friday approved a ban on terminations as early as six weeks into pregnancy.<br /> The measure would prevent procedures if a foetal heartbeat can be detected by doctors. In effect…
<p> The Guardian – The secret ultra-conservative Catholic sect Opus Dei is mobilising within the Irish professions to stop the republic reforming its abortion laws, one of the country's most prominent doctors has warned. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/12/opus-dei-irish-abortion-reform?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487" target="_blank">Lire la suite</a></p>
<p> The Guardian – A prominent member of Labour's sister party in Northern Ireland will try next week to outlaw women accessing non-medical abortions from private companies. The SDLP's Alban Maginness has joined forces with Democratic Unionist Paul Girvan to push for legislation in the Northern Ireland assembly on Tuesday that would make abortions outside…
<p> The Guardian – Justin Bieber may cause hysteria among millions of teenage girls around the globe, but the Canadian-born pop star is not known for getting mixed up in political controversy. That clean-cut image might be about to change as his mother, Pattie Mallette, 37, is one of the driving forces behind a prize-winning…
<p> The Guardian – Mississippi's only remaining abortion clinic, which won an eleventh-hour temporary reprieve from closure last summer, has been told it could be shut down in six weeks after it was found to be in violation of a restrictive new state law this month.<br /> Time is now running out for the clinic,…
<p> The Guardian – Two weeks before the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade, Planned Parenthood – the organization most associated with abortion advocacy in the US – announced that it has reoriented its branding from being a "pro-choice" group to not labeling itself, in an effort to attract the support of people who don't…
<p> Irishtimes.com – <strong>OPINION:</strong> The news of Savita Halappanavar’s death in appalling circumstances is a wake-up call for legislators</p> <p> No more inaction. For 20 years now the lives of Irish women have been put at risk by the failure of successive governments to legislate for the X case.<br /> The news this week of Savita…
<p> The Guardian – The parents of the woman who died after being refused an abortion in a Galway hospital have blamed Ireland's abortion laws for her death.<br /> Their accusation comes as a legal expert in Ireland said it would have been lawful to offer Savita Halappanavar a termination that she and her husband…
