A painstakingly detailed Reuters report on abortion at the hands of the Nigerian military, forced on women and girls held by Boko Haram members in the country’s northeast since former president Goodluck Jonathan was still in office, has shocked the international community—but not Nigerian defense officials who denied the abortions…
Friday’s landmark ruling on abortion rights in the United States, one that overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling to protect abortion access at the federal level, saw three U.S. Supreme Court justices dissent. And in that dissent, they noted how the U.S. reversal runs counter to abortion legislation in…
The results of a post-mortem examination completed Thursday in the death of Kenyan human rights activist Caroline Mwatha Ochieng are consistent with excessive bleeding following complications of an attempted abortion. Amnesty International in Kenya said they are accepting the results of the examination, which followed street protests in the Dandora…
Police in Kenya have arrested six people in connection with the disappearance and death of Caroline Mwatha Ochieng, a prominent human rights activist who was reported missing on February 9. Mwatha’s body was found on Tuesday at the city morgue in Nairobi, where she had been since last Thursday although…
United States President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order that prohibits American foreign aid grants to global health programs that include information about abortion as a family-planning option. The decision reinstates the so-called “Mexico City Rule,” which dates to a United Nations conference more than 30 years ago in…