The number of women undergoing medical abortions has increased more than six-fold since the RU486 abortion pill was listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in 2013. 

Texas has become the first US state to pass a heartbeat bill, after an emergency appeal from abortion providers and others failed in the Supreme Court. The law prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks of pregnancy.

“More lives are lost from violence against women, sex-selection abortion, female infanticide, suicide, egregious maternal mortality, and other sex-linked causes than were lost during all of the wars and civil strife of the 20th century.”

University students at one of Australia’s top universities are only allowed to hear one side of a debate on the complex and multifaceted issue of abortion, because its student association has banned a pro-life group.

The personal stories of women’s experiences following an abortion are rare in our public discourse. As a topic that continues to evoke strong emotions on both sides, there can be a reluctance to give airtime to women’s negative experiences for fear that it could result in abortion laws being wound back or public support for abortion being weakened.

The term “doula” may be unfamiliar to many people but the role itself is an ancient one. Traditionally, a doula would “provide emotional, physical and information support to women throughout their pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum.” Modern doulas are professionally trained to equip them for this work.

As a result of son-preference cultures where males are prized over females, the practice of abortion disproportionately impacts little girls, who are subject to violence and discrimination before they are even born.

A New Zealand couple has shared a heartbreaking story about a surrogate who aborted their baby without their knowledge.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case concerning Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban under the “Gestational Age Act”.

ABC’s RN Breakfast interviewed Associate Professor Catherine Kevin from Flinders University about the abortion bill that will go to South Australia’s lower house for debate next week. Professor Kevin is a member of the South Australian Abortion Action Coalition.