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August 19, 2010

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning announced yesterday that he will not attempt to defend the state's new abortion screening law. Bruning has accepted a permanent federal injunction on enforcement of the law, which required women to submit to a full medical screening before seeking an abortion, according to the Associated Press. Brunings's office announced that the court proceedings would be too costly for a case that they believed they are unlikely to win.

Wall Street Journal
18th August 2010

Wisconsin is pushing to expand a controversial program that uses federal Medicaid funds to provide free birth-control pills, vasectomies and other forms of contraception to low-income people, an effort made possible by the federal health-care overhaul.

channelnewsasia.com
17th August 2010
MANILA: More and more women would die from complications arising from unsafe abortions in the Philippines, warned the country's women's groups, as they called for abortions to be legalised.

Teresa, an 18-year-old girl who was raped by her best friend's boyfriend, decided to take drastic measures to abort her baby.

"I took Cytotec tablet to abort the baby (because) I don't think I will be able to raise the baby," she said.

14th August 2010
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
bulatlat.com

MANILA — In the Philippines, it’s not enough that women who wish to terminate their pregnancies do not have legal and safe means to do it. In many hospitals and clinics across the country, Filipinas who undergo abortion and then seek medical treatment because of complications are routinely harassed and violated by health-care providers.

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Minutes after the test revealed she was pregnant, Amy saw only one option -- to leave Ireland and have an abortion in Britain.

Her architect partner had lost his job in Ireland's property crash and she was worried about hers, so the 29 year-old office assistant felt she had no choice.

"We found it hard enough to finance the abortion," said Amy, who declined to give her full name because of the sensitive subject. "So how could we effectively support a child?"

Thousands forced to seek illegal and often unsafe abortions, says Human Rights Watch report

Uki Goni in Buenos Aires and Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 August 2010

Thousands of girls and women in Argentina suffer needlessly because they cannot access contraception, legal abortion and other reproductive health care services, a Human Rights Watch report said today.

By Candace Piette
BBC News, Buenos Aires

"My body is mine and I will decide what I do with it!" shouted the young feminist activist outside the Argentine Congress building in central Buenos Aires.

"We demand a debate on abortion in society and a vote in Congress," she said.

After the recent vote by the Argentine Congress to legalise same-sex marriage, the legalisation of abortion does indeed seem set to be the next big debate in the country.

New Zealand Herald
Jul 23, 2010

Women are waiting nearly a month on average to get an abortion - and they feel that is too long, research by Auckland University has found.

The study, published in the journal Reproductive Health, looked at the timeliness of services provided by nine New Zealand clinics.

More than half of women at the clinics were having abortions in or after their 10th week of pregnancy, with an average wait of 25 days after seeing their referring doctor.

San Diego Union-Tribune
July 20, 2010
By Michele Clock

While some states move to tighten access to abortion, most California voters continue to support keeping abortion legal.

A new Field Poll shows 71 percent of the state’s voters favor either not making any change to the state’s abortion laws or making abortions easier to obtain.

About 71 percent of voters also said they supported the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark decision to legalize abortion.

Atlanta, GA - July 20, 2010: Atlanta-based women of color organizations say an anti-abortion billboard campaign in Atlanta, along with so-called "freedom rides" scheduled this summer are no more than a ploy to turn back the clock on Black women's right to reproductive freedom. In response to the billboard campaign, three reproductive justice groups plan a counter-protest at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center on July 24, 2010 at 2:30 pm.