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Women's right to choose

We report on women's fight to access reproductive health services around the world

17 July 2024

  • Lei and Abu travel to the US to freeze their eggs in the Guardian documentary, Frozen in Time, by Rongfei Guo

    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

    Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China’s birth rate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

24 April 2024

  • A crowd of women march along a street holding banners

    Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban

    Petition filed on behalf of woman known as as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped

27 March 2024

  • Members of feminist organizations demonstrate in favour of the decriminalization of abortion on International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City on September 28, 2023.

    Meta and Google accused of restricting reproductive health information

    Report claims posts on abortion and contraception have been deleted while misinformation on the feeds of social media users in Africa, Latin America and Asia has not been tackled

28 February 2023

  • Women dance in a voodoo ceremony in Bopa, south-western Benin

    Benin passed one of Africa’s most liberal abortion laws. Why are women still dying?

    Social and spiritual factors in the west African country mean that desperate women are still risking their lives by resorting to unsafe terminations

30 January 2023

  • Health minister Adam Niedzielski

    Polish health minister ‘appalled’ girl, 14, struggled to get abortion after rape

    Doctors at several hospitals cited a conscience clause to avoid treating the teenager who has a mental disability

31 December 2022

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The year in patriarchy: a dancing PM, an ‘inclusive’ M&M, and lots of protests

    Arwa Mahdawi
    2022 saw a stunning reverse on reproductive rights in the US but there were also victories for women – and the plain bizarre

17 November 2022

  • Research of mothers with children aged four<br>EMBARGOED TO 1900 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16 File photo dated 23/01`/16 of a new baby holding the finger of its mother. UK mothers with children aged four and under get less than 20 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity every day, research suggests. The study also found less than half of mothers meet the recommended levels of exercise, regardless of the age of their children. Issue date: Wednesday November 16, 2022. PA Photo. Results also showed those with multiple children engaged in lower amounts of daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity compared to those with one child. See PA story HEALTH Mums. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

    The Guardian view on a demographic paradox: the rebirth of pronatalism

    Editorial: The global population reached 8 billion this week – but authoritarian governments are rolling back rights as they try to boost their populations

30 August 2022

  • 1 September will mark one year since Texas became the first state to ban most abortions.

    ‘I wish this on no one’: navigating pregnancy in the year since Texas’s abortion ban

    A Texas law in effect since last September provided a preview of life without Roe v Wade. Three women describe the struggle to secure abortion care in the state

9 August 2022

  • Sam Brownback speaking in the US in June 2022

    UK government honoured anti-abortion figure before editing women’s rights statement

    Former US envoy given award at conference now engulfed in row over changes to reproductive rights pledges, while participant list revealed to have included members of a group accused of hate speech

28 July 2022

  • International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief Session of the International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief in London, 6 July 2022.

    UK in diplomatic standoff over deletion of abortion rights from gender statement

    Exclusive: Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands refuse to sign edited version, drawing up new phrasing including women and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights

27 July 2022

  • Caroline Nokes

    Senior Tory urges Liz Truss to explain deletion of abortion rights from statement

    Exclusive: Equalities committee chair Caroline Nokes joins international outcry after UK dilutes commitment to women’s rights without consultation

22 July 2022

  • Conservative MP Fiona Bruce at the International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief in London, 6 July 2022

    UK under international pressure over deletion of abortion commitments

  • Irina Mateescu, pictured at her office in Bucharest, Romania this month, faced pressure 22 years ago from a pregnancy crisis centre to renounce abortion and become a teenage mother

    How US dollars put anti-abortion groups at the heart of Romanian healthcare

6 July 2022

  • President Julius Maada Bio with Åsa Regnér (left), deputy executive director of UN Women, and Oulimata Sarr, regional director of UN Women West and Central Africa at State House, Freetown, Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone backs bill to legalise abortion and end colonial-era law

    Country hails ‘monumental step’ towards expanding reproductive rights at a time when the US has overturned them

5 July 2022

  • Protesters march with placards against Recep Tayyip Erdogğan’s proposed 2012 bill to restrict abortion to the first six weeks of pregnancy

    ‘It was my right, but they refused’: Turkish women denied access to free, safe abortions

    With a de facto ban across much of Turkey, women are having to beg from hospital to hospital or seek private terminations – if they can afford it

4 July 2022

  • An image of the Virgin Mary is used to endorse an anti-abortion poster on a building in the centre of the Philippines capital, Manila.

    Anna bought abortion pills via social media. Now, like thousands of other Filipinas, she is dead

    The case of one 20-year-old from Manila reveals the dangerous role of online sellers of illicit methods in a country where terminations are outlawed

30 June 2022

  • Carla at the front door of her house in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. She had two abortions in the last year and half.

    ‘I couldn’t have the baby’: Honduras’s poor suffer most from draconian abortion laws

    Thousands of women and young girls living in poverty are forced to turn to a deadly illegal trade – risking jail and their lives

23 May 2022

  • A woman food seller walks past a Ghanaian flag flying in the wind in Tamale, Ghana

    Too many have suffered under Ghana’s abortion laws. Ending Roe v Wade risks our hope for change

    Bisi Adjapon
    In a country where stigma, poverty and religious beliefs compound anti-abortion laws, a rollback on US rights will only embolden extremists

18 May 2022

  • An activist holds a Pro-Choice poster

    US supreme court abortion reversal would be global ‘catastrophe’ for women

    If Roe v Wade is overturned, it will encourage anti-choice groups – particularly in the developing world, activists warn
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