Thousands of pro-abortion rights campaigners marched in Dublin demanding changes to Ireland's laws after the death of an Indian woman who was refused a termination even though she was miscarrying. Can Ireland move toward new legislation despite it...

Irish health authorities are probing the case of a woman who died after she was refused a potentially life-saving abortion for days because her dying fetus still had a heartbeat. The death has added fuel to the abortion debate in the heavily Catho...

Once considered a sure GOP win, Missouri Rep. Todd Akin lost his Senate race to Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill. Many in the party turned their back on Akin after he said victims of "legitimate rape" don't get pregnant. His defiant concessi...

A video re-release on YouTube of a testy Mitt Romney defending his religion in the last presidential election to a radio interviewer has hit viral paydirt and is sparking renewed debate about the candidate's Mormonism. One expert quoted by the Was...

A key think tank affiliated with China's State Council is recommending that the nation's 32-year-old rule restricting families to one child should be dropped within three years, particularly because it's causing a dangerous gender imbalance as fam...

GOP Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock has launched a new world of trouble for Mitt Romney with his controversial declaration that a pregnancy resulting from rape is "something God intended." Romney, who's endorsing Mourdock in a new TV ad,...

Uruguay has become only the second Latin American country, after Cuba, to legalize abortion. After a bitter debate in the Catholic country, lawmakers voted to allow abortions during the first trimester and to make access to abortion part of the na...

Startling statistics reveal that abortion may be the most popular form of birth control in Vietnam. Contributor Nguyen Qui Duc reports from Hanoi on the cultural reasons for this trend, and the general confusion about what to do to stop it.

A South Korean constitutional court has upheld a 59-year-old ban on abortion. Contributor Yoo Eun Lee from Global Voices reports on South Korean women's reactions to the continued ban and what it means for women's rights in the country.

As debate rages over Republican positions on abortion and contraception, we ask if a war is being waged on women's rights. Guests Judy Norsigian and Frank Schaeffer discuss. Photograph: A demonstrator shouts "Stop the War on Women" during a speec...