FAB Gab Episode 13 has just dropped, and in this episode Amy Reed-Sandoval discusses the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic was used to cut back access to abortions in many American states, with effects for women from parts of … Continue reading
As 2020 comes to a close, we have news out of Argentina that decades of feminist pro-choice activism have come to fruition: the Senate has passed a bill that came through the House recently, decriminalizing abortion up through 14 weeks … Continue reading
Argentina’s Congress has legalised abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy, with the Senate approving the measure by a vote of 38-29. Prior to the vote, abortion was only allowed in the case of rape or a threat to … Continue reading
Argentina’s current law makes abortion legal only in cases of rape or threat to the life of the pregnant person. As in many countries where abortion is illegal, abortions nonetheless happen, but less safely. Argentine feminists and feminist bioethicists have … Continue reading
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The American Medical Association is intervening in the rapid increase of state legal restrictions on abortion for the first time, according to an article published in TIME magazine this morning. The American Medical Association is suing North Dakota to block … Continue reading
A recent large scale analysis of worldwide population data suggests sex-selective abortions have led to at least 23 million fewer girls being born, mainly in China and India. Sons are valued over daughters in many societies, for both social and … Continue reading
As you may know, the US has recently been in the throes of an impassioned debate over abortion. There has recently been a great deal of discussion of New York’s new abortion law, and on Virginia politicians’ claims about late … Continue reading
I have been seeing so much about the New York abortion law debate that I feel almost compelled to say a few words about it. The law states that a physician “may perform an abortion when, according to the practitioner’s … Continue reading
I appreciated Sorcha’s excellent blog the other day in the lead-up to the Irish vote on whether to repeal the 8th amendment which was added to the Irish constitution 25 years ago. For more background, check it out. But I … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Irish philosopher Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh is a long-time member of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, and writes for IJFAB Blog today on the upcoming urgent vote on whether to keep Ireland’s 8th amendment. As has long been noted, … Continue reading
For some time now, there have only been 3 clinics in the United States that will perform late abortions (to read more about some late abortions, see this IJFAB blog entry on the topic). One of these, the Germantown Clinic … Continue reading
