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An Ordinary Heroine: Mary Jane Review

Plays whose subjects can be summed up in one word—abortion, divorce, Trump—are prone to be preachy. They needn’t be, though, and Amy Herzog’s &ldquo...

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Adoption Is A Feminist Issue But Not For The Reasons You Think

In their efforts to cure what they see as a moral crisis infecting our nation, the anti-choice movement has historically thrown their power, money, and influence behind the...

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Discourse: Returning Women Their Body

The Supreme Court has recently intervened in cases where women have sought abortion because the foetus is deformed, triggering demands to allow women to determine the cours...

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Tomatoes, Limes & Sex-Selective Abortions

The United States is withdrawing all of its funding from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) after claiming without evidence that the agency supports coercive abortions in China...

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Shonda Rhimes: Never Afraid To Tell Abortion Stories

Shonda Rhimes isn't a doctor. She doesn't even play one on TV (though, at this point, she probably knows more about obscure diseases than your internist). But Rhimes, who h...

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Maharashtra Wants Amitabh Bachchan To 'Save The Girl Child'

After megastar Amitabh Bachchan lent his name for saving dwindling tigers, the Maharashtra government wants him to become a brand ambassador for its 'save the girl child' i...

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The Right To Choice

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined a woman’s plea to abort her 26-week-old foetus detected with Down’s Syndrome. Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves argued that...

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Indian Women Seeing Abortions Beyond 20 Weeks Face Desperate Legal Struggles

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed a woman from Mumbai who is 24 weeks pregnant to have an abortion because her foetus had anancephaly – a life threatening conditio...

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Why 10 Million Indian Women Secretly Undergo Abortions Every Year

Millions of women become pregnant because they lack access to contraceptive devices to limit or space their families, or are ignorant about them. In 2008, Arti Chauhan (nam...

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Mobile Diagnostic Device That Helps Pregnant Women In Rural India Receive Timely Medical Attention

A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in ...

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