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First woman arrested under abortion buffer zone law faces no further action

The first woman arrested under Scotland’s abortion buffer zones law will face no further action from prosecutors ...

The National (Scotland) · Aug 14, 2025

Maine clinics hope to get blocked Medicaid funds restored as they sue Trump administration over cuts

A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine is expected to ask a judge to restore its Medicaid funding while it fights a Trump administration effort to block federal money for abortion providers

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2025

First Amendment Claim Over Firing of Firefighter for Supposedly Racially Offensive Anti-Abortion Post Can Go Forward

From today's decision in Melton v. City of Forrest City, written by Judge David Stras, joined by Judges Lavenski Smith… The post First Amendment Claim Over Firing of Firefighter for Supposedly Racially Offensive Anti-Abortion Post Can Go Forward appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Aug 13, 2025

India is historical, Bharat is mythical: Aatish Taseer

My parents met in Delhi in 1980. My father had just written a biography of his political idol, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; my mother was sent to interview him. That night they went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant called the House of Ming. Then they disappeared together for a week.…

Newslaundry · Aug 12, 2025

Marine sued after Texas woman claims he spiked her drink with abortion drugs, killing unborn child

The lawsuit alleges the Marine suggested a “trust building night,” which is when he’s accused of lacing her hot chocolate with abortion drugs

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025

Texas woman files wrongful death suit saying she was dosed with abortion pills

Woman claims in lawsuit that man impregnated her and dissolved at least 10 shipped abortion pills into her drink

The Guardian - US · Aug 11, 2025

Medication abortions drove up number of US procedures after Roe’s repeal, study shows

Abortion pill provision rates were more than three times higher in states that ban abortion compared with those that do not

The Guardian - US · Aug 11, 2025

This country won the battle against its maternal deaths crisis. Trump’s aid cuts could ruin all that

IN FOCUS: Twenty years ago, a shake-up of Ethiopia’s abortion law led the maternal mortality rate to dramatically fall. Doctors tell Rachel Schraer that progress could be about to go into reverse because of US funding cuts.

The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2025

Trump ally Marsha Blackburn launches bid for governor of Tennessee

The Republican senator and vocal abortion foe supported Trump’s baseless claims of fraud during the 2020 election

The Guardian - US · Aug 6, 2025

US destruction of contraceptives denies 1.4m African women and girls lifesaving care, NGO says

Incineration of $9.7m of contraceptives to lead to 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions, IPPF says

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2025