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Spain was wrapping up its final day of campaigning Friday ahead of Sunday's snap election, with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez telling voters his Socialists were closing the gap with their right-wing rivals.…

WASHINGTON: US officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, which will let American women and girls buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops.The Food and Drug Administration said…

Why It MattersAs more than a dozen states banned abortion in the past year, women with unwanted pregnancies have turned in growing numbers to self-managed medication abortions.But the arduous and time-consuming methods needed to procure the…

Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage.Efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa were…

For more than a year, since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, pregnant women have faced a radically altered landscape of challenges and choices as the number of abortion providers dropped to zero in more than a…

Peg Yorkin, a feminist activist and philanthropist who as a founder of the Feminist Majority, a national women’s rights organization, campaigned to bring mifepristone, the abortion pill, to the United States and to increase the number of…

After she received the medication, the process took a different turn. Via Zoom, a minister prompted Mikayla to look in a mirror to reflect on self-empowerment and recite: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.” After…

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gestures during the "National Celebrate Life Day Rally" commemorating the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v Women's Health…

WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump said the federal government should play a “vital role” opposing abortionbut again failed to provide specifics on what national restrictions he would support if elected to the White House…

At one small rally in Washington, protesters carried signs and T-shirts bearing phrases like "I am the post-Roe generation," and "Unborn Lives Matter," urging national-level restrictions on abortion. Steve Karlen, an anti-abortion…