Choice Ireland

breakingnews.ie, 12th March 2010

Editorial - 10th March 2010

It has been three years since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion. Emboldened, foes of reproductive freedom are pressing new attacks on women’s rights and health.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Medication-induced home abortions are safe for women who are 50 to 63 days pregnant, a new study from Sweden shows.

Studies to date have only looked at home use of the procedure up to 49 days after conception, Dr. Helena Kopp Kallner of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and her colleagues note in their report.

The Government was today urged to relax abortion laws after a poll showed more than three-quarters of the population favour such a move.

The Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) said the survey reveals a significant shift in public attitudes to pregnancy termination.

The YouGov opinion poll showed 78 per cent of those questioned support access to abortion in Ireland if the pregnancy endangers a woman’s health or is the result of sexual abuse, rape or incest.

MARIE O'HALLORAN, Mon, Mar 01, 2010

FAILURE TO legislate on the X-case means that a woman cannot access an abortion even when it is necessary to save her life, according to a pro-choice organisation.

By CIARAN GILES, The Associated Press

MADRID — Spain on Wednesday approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion, declaring the practice a woman's right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church.

The new law allows the procedure without restrictions up to 14 weeks and gives 16- and 17-year-olds the right to have abortions without parental consent. The senate's passage of the bill Wednesday gives it final approval.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Amnesty International today called on the Nicaraguan authorities to provide cancer treatment to a pregnant woman that is currently being withheld because of a law that bans abortion in all circumstances.

Amalia (not her real name), 27, is 10-weeks pregnant and was diagnosed on February 2 with cancer, which may have already spread to her brain, lungs and breasts.

CBSnews.com, 22nd February 2010

Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 21st February 2010

The House of Representatives yesterday paved the way for Hawaii to become the first state in the nation to repeal its abortion law.

The repeal bill passed by a 31-20 vote and is expected to breeze through the Senate on Tuesday.

Every member voted on the measure.

Barring major defects in the bill, Gov. John A. Burns is expected to let the bill become law without his signature.

Sunday February 21 2010