North Carolina's stricter abortion law, which took effect in July 2023, bans most abortions past 12 weeks in pregnancy. The ...

A Polish court has found three doctors guilty of medical negligence in the high-profile 2021 death of a pregnant woman, ...

The District Court in Pszczyna found the doctors guilty of endangering the life of a 30-year-old woman, identified only as ...

Ireland’s “restrictive” abortion law is forcing women to travel for terminations in cases where babies have conditions which they will “absolutely not” survive, expert doctors have warned.

Amber Martin was 20 weeks pregnant with her son Arlo when she discovered her pregnancy was in danger. Living in Indiana, a red state with a near-total abortion ban, Martin feared what would happen ...

The law bans nearly all abortions after a "fetal heartbeat" is detected. It defines fetal heartbeat as cardiac activity, ... The law also allows abortion in cases of severe fetal abnormalities.

Rights advocates in Hungary were dismayed on Tuesday at the news that soon, women seeking abortions will be forced to listen to the fetal "heartbeat" before doctors can go ahead with the procedure ...

Abortions for cases of fetal anomalies are banned after 22 weeks of pregnancy. After receiving Arlo's diagnosis, Martin had about a week and a half before she would lose access to legal abortion.

Since the Dobbs ruling, more abortion seekers are being denied the chance to get the procedure or facing long delays because of laws based on ideas about fetal development markers. But in fact ...