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US President Joe Biden Signs Executive Order On Abortion Rights Challenging State Laws
US President Joe Biden signed off on an executive order to protect abortion rights throughout the United States to safeguard access to reproductive healthcare services, which targets states that have banned or severely restricted abortion in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned the landmark Roe vs Wade verdict. ....
US Faces New Protests On Abortion Laws After Gun Law Engages Less Attention
Americans are up in arms again, this time, on the Supreme Court 6-3 verdict on the Roe Vs Wade case that takes away a woman's legal right to abortion generally borne out of a decision to terminate pregnancy on grounds of rape, incest or deformities of the embryo in the womb.....
Sangli Female Foeticide: Maharashtra Government Launches Probe
Maharashtra Women & Child Welfare Minister Pankaja Munde on Monday announced a probe into the shocking case of discovery of 19 female foetuses near a private hospital compound in the state's Sangli district.....
Punjabis May Be Aborting Female Foetus In Canada Too
Indians are known for their preference for male children, and according to a new study, some Indian-origin couples living in Canada -- mostly those from Punjab and the Hindi heartland -- may be practicing sex selective abortion out of a preference for boys. ....
New Supreme Court Ruling On Abortion 'possible': President Trump
President Donald Trump said it is "certainly possible" that his Supreme Court pick will be involved in a ruling revisiting the landmark 1973 decision that legalised abortion in the US. ....
Delhi HC Allows Woman's Plea To Terminate 28-week Pregnancy
The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed a woman's plea seeking the termination of her 28-week pregnancy on the ground that the foetus suffered from a serious birth defect in which a baby is born with an underdeveloped brain and incomplete skull. ....
Kamala Harris' Tweet On Abortion Rights Ruffles Bipartisan Feathers
US Vice President Kamala Harris has virtually walked into the circle of fire with her tweet on abortion rights, saying "this is not over" and the Joe Biden administration will do everything in its power to defend medication abortion even as pro-abortion rights activists' protests over the apex court's ruling spread like a prairie fire across the nation. ....
