Al Jazeera English
| Nov 17, 2012
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...
Newsy
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Newsy
| Nov 14, 2012
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...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 9, 2012
Some are painting the the US elections as a major victory for a progressive vision of America. President Barack Obama was re-elected despite attempts by Republicans to paint him as an angry, socialist liberal, African-American infringing on religi...
Channel 4 News
| Nov 8, 2012
Mitt Romney's poor performance among Latino and women voters is widely believed to have cost him the US presidential election. Is there anything the Republican party do to win back these key demographics?
PBS NewsHour
| Nov 6, 2012
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...
thebartnick
| Nov 4, 2012
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...
Euronews
| Oct 17, 2012
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...
LinkAsia
| Sep 28, 2012
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.
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 6, 2012
Republicans say the Democrats are the party of big government, working to divide the US through class warfare. Critics on the left say that, aside from a few social issues, both the Democrats and the Republicans are barely distinguishable. So what...
LinkAsia
| Aug 31, 2012
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.
— Sep 26, 2012 at 12:55 pm
...suggest that supporting reproductive rights is, on net, a national net negative for the Democrats. I see little basis for this belief. The consi...
— Sep 25, 2012 at 05:05 pm
...support from anti-abortion groups, who say tens of thousands of postcards have been sent to MPs asking them to vote in favour of M-312. It isn’t...
— Sep 17, 2012 at 05:47 pm
...of marginalizing women's issues, Republicans, who ignored reproductive rights at their own convention, mocked Democrats for emphasizing its cent...
— Mar 9 at 12:05 am
...50 million abortions in the United States since Roe” to the “Holocaust ….” That overwrought language is unfortunately typical of too many state ...
— Jun 21, 2012 at 05:48 pm
