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              Reproductive rights

              • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
                FT Magazine
                Inside Israel’s fight to make fathers of its dead soldiers

                Since last October, the families of every fallen soldier have been offered postmortem sperm retrieval

                Frozen sperm straws stored in goblets within a liquid nitrogen tank
              • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
                The Big Read
                Could anger over abortion rights swing the US election against Trump?

                Democrats are betting that a backlash against increasingly prohibitive laws will help them win votes in key battleground states

                Montage image of two supporters holding am abotyion is health care sign and pro-life, pro-green sign
              • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                Harris to make unexpected campaign stop in Texas

                Abortion and reproductive rights likely to be at heart of vice-president’s message in Republican-leaning state

                Kamala Harris
              • Friday, 30 August, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                Trump says he will vote against abortion rights in Florida

                Comments set to throw renewed spotlight on issue Democrats have targeted Republican presidential candidate over

                Donald Trump
              • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
                Camilla Cavendish
                ‘Childless cat ladies’ fight a tide of pronatalism

                A strange new alliance is growing between those who want to restrict abortion and those asking their compatriots to have more children

                Jonathan McHugh illustration of a blue baby pram with a ginger cat in it playing with toys in the form of the Republican party logo elephant and the Democratic donkey
              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                Poland
                Coalition split hampers Tusk’s bid to roll back Polish abortion ban

                Junior partner joins rightwing opposition to vote against a bill to decriminalise helping women terminate pregnancies

              • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
                Supreme Court US
                US Supreme Court error appears to reveal setback for Idaho abortion ban

                Document obtained by Bloomberg suggests court will allow emergency abortions

                Abortion rights activists outside the US Supreme Court, which two years ago overturned Roe vs Wade
              • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
                Data protection
                Privacy fears sap potential of female fertility tech start-ups

                US 2022 abortion ruling has heightened concerns over the safety of women’s healthcare trackers

                Woman using a phone, logos of Clue and Flo fertility apps with screen shot of Flo app on a phone
              • Friday, 14 June, 2024
                Giorgia Meloni
                Meloni accuses Macron of electioneering at G7 summit

                Italian premier trades barbs with under-pressure French president over abortion rights

                French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the G7 summit in southern Italy on Thursday
              • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
                US Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill

                Unanimous decision finds plaintiffs lacked standing to sue over regulatory approval of mifepristone

                Abortion-rights supporters rallying outside the US Supreme Court earlier this year
              • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
                ReviewNon-Fiction
                Undue Burden — the reality for women in post-Roe America

                Shefali Luthra sympathetically documents the harrowing human consequences of curtailing the right to abortion

                A woman in a mult-coloured tabard escorts another woman into a building. Over the door is a sign that says ‘no judgement, just care’
              • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
                Maternal health
                MPs in push to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

                Women’s rights campaigners optimistic parliament will support one of the amendments to criminal justice bill next week

                Women’s rights campaigners protesting in Westminster
              • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                ‘Trump did this’: abortion ruling hands Biden opening in Arizona

                ‘Draconian’ court decision puts reproductive rights at heart of election in crucial 2024 swing state

                Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Arizona
              • Monday, 15 April, 2024
                FT Swamp Notes
                Will abortion be Trump’s downfall? Premium content

                Suburban women in swing states believe the former president’s policies are too restrictive

                A girl sits on her father’s shoulders in front of a banner that reads ‘trust women’, while vice-president Kamala Harris speaks following the ruling from Arizona’s supreme court on April 9, 2024 upholding a 160-year-old abortion ban, at an event in Tucson, Arizona
              • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
                FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
                Swamp Notes: What’s the Republican party’s position on abortion?

                Voters aren’t happy about the rollback of US abortion rights. Republicans are getting the message.

              • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
                Poland
                Tusk coalition split on abortion rights

                First cracks emerge within prime minister’s alliance as parliament debates reproductive rights

                Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk  at a polling station in Sopot, Poland on April 7 2024
              • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
                Arizona court bans almost all abortions in Trump-Biden swing state

                Decision in crucial 2024 presidential election battleground comes as Democrats hope restrictions will energise voters

                Abortion rights supporters marching in Tucson, Arizona, after the US Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to overturn Roe vs Wade
              • Monday, 8 April, 2024
                FT live news
                News updates from April 8: Millions watch solar eclipse; Elon Musk predicts AI will overtake human intelligence in 2025
              • Monday, 8 April, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                Trump says abortion law should be left to states

                Former president declines to endorse national ban but takes credit for overturning Roe vs Wade

                Donald Trump speaking into a microphone. The US flag is behind him
              • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
                Edward Luce
                Abortion could be Trump’s Waterloo

                Democrats need to press home their advantage on an issue that seems a sure vote-loser for Republicans in November

                Pro-abortion protesters hold up signs
              • Monday, 1 April, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                Florida voters to decide whether to protect abortion rights

                November ballot referendum on a flashpoint issue will give Democrats hope of boosting turnout within their base

                Pro-abortion rights activists in Florida after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe vs Wade
              • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
                Abortion pill access seems likely to withstand scrutiny from US Supreme Court

                Justices’ scepticism towards disrupting the legal landscape is a potential boon for Republicans ahead of 2024 election

                Protesters gather outside of the US Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments on a case involving access to the abortion pill
              • Monday, 4 March, 2024
                French politics
                France becomes first nation in world to add abortion rights to constitution

                Move to pass article gained traction amid rollback of reproductive freedoms in US and Poland

                Women’s rights groups demonstrate on the Place du Trocadero near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on March 4 as the constitutional change is made
              • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
                Republican Party US
                Alabama lawmakers vote to protect IVF after controversial court ruling

                Move comes amid nationwide backlash to Republican efforts to restrict reproductive rights

                A person wears a sticker reading ‘Fight for Alabama families’
              • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
                US Supreme Court to hear case on abortion pill access

                Decision sets up another potentially landmark ruling on reproductive rights as the country prepares for 2024 election

                Anti-abortion protesters march in front of the US Supreme Court
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