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  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Roe vs Wade
    US Supreme Court overturns Roe vs Wade in major blow to abortion rights

    Dramatic ruling by majority-conservative court unwinds nearly 50-year-old precedent

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    LexAgeing Populations
    Fertility: childcare costs exacerbate the demographic drought Premium content

    Ageing populations present opportunities as well as risks for equity investors

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    Reproductive rights
    Abortion pill access targeted by Republicans amid rising demand

    Telehealth services take centre stage in latest battle over reproductive rights

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Mary Ziegler
    Conflict over dismantling US abortion rights poses a political challenge

    The majority of Americans oppose the Supreme Court’s plan to overturn Roe — but can progressives turn this into votes?

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    The Big Read
    Abortion: what reversing Roe vs Wade would mean for American women

    The leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling indicates a victory for a 50-year conservative campaign to overturn abortion rights

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Reversing Roe vs Wade would shatter women’s rights

    There is no easy way to undo a ruling that would hobble access to abortion

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Repeal of Roe risks exacerbating the US’s most shameful statistic

    Abortion ban would increase the country’s dreadful maternal mortality rate and fall hardest on the most vulnerable

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The toxicity of America’s restrictive abortion laws

    A divisive political issue is now also a debate for businesses

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Robin Marty
    Disaster looms for patients if US states can set abortion laws

    Texas’s near-blanket ban on terminations has already had a significant effect across the South

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    Reproductive rights
    Oklahoma passes one of the toughest anti-abortion laws in the US

    Measure follows wave of restrictions in Republican-led states as Supreme Court weighs pivotal case

  • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
    US society
    More women forced to travel to seek abortions as US states clamp down

    Data show how tough new restrictions are being felt as more legislatures adopt similar measures

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Camilla Cavendish
    As Britons lose faith in the NHS, it’s time to demand better care

    For decades the health service has been our national religion, but the Shrewsbury maternity deaths expose shocking failures

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    Patti Waldmeir
    Bans bring back the bad old days of travel abortions

    Before the ruling on Roe vs Wade, restrictive measures are already being put in place

  • Saturday, 19 February, 2022
    News in-depthNorthern Ireland
    N Ireland abortion rollout faces delays that could push London to step in

    Impasse means prospect of services being commissioned by end-of-March deadline looks unlikely

  • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
    Roe vs Wade
    US Supreme Court justices appear willing to put curbs on abortion rights

    Conservatives seem to lean towards upholding Mississippi law in case seeking to undo Roe vs Wade

  • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
    Special Report
    Delivering Healthcare

    The coronavirus pandemic has overturned assumptions about the way the world’s health systems work. This report looks at how they are rising to the challenges they face, from Covid messaging in polyglot South Africa to joined-up care in fast-ageing Japan

  • Monday, 27 September, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    China tightens abortion controls as population crisis looms

    Efforts to boost birth rates comes as Beijing overhauls business, technology and culture

  • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
    News in-depthReproductive rights
    Lack of abortion access will set US women back, economists warn

    Wages and education significantly affected, brief says, as Supreme Court considers latest challenge to Roe vs Wade

  • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
    US politics & policy
    US justice department sues Texas over abortion ban

    Attorney-general warns law could become ‘model for action’ in other states

  • Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
    Mexico
    Mexico Supreme Court votes to decriminalise abortion

    Top judge says decision is a ‘watershed’ moment for women in predominantly Catholic country

  • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Abortion wars threaten US constitutional foundations

    Supreme Court decision on Texas law has inflamed the country

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    Amy Kazmin
    BJP turns to coercion to limit India’s population growth

    Experts say Uttar Pradesh plan to cut benefits to those with more than two children will hurt the country’s poorest

  • Monday, 12 July, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
    Brazil’s Covid wave hits pregnant women especially hard

    Strained healthcare, inadequate access and a more contagious variant blamed for jump in maternal deaths

  • Monday, 17 May, 2021
    Supreme Court US
    US Supreme Court to hear abortion case challenging Roe vs Wade

    Ruling will be first big decision on divisive issue since appointment of conservative Amy Coney Barrett

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Honduras
    Honduras locks in permanent ban on abortion

    Move to outlaw procedure forever comes after Argentina legalised termination on demand

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