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‘Conflicted’ Robredo shuns abortion for now, open to listening

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 26 09:46 PM

A conflicted VP Leni Robredo said that while she opposed decriminalizing abortion for now, she was open to hearing more views. Read more »

Marcos Jr. says abortion should be allowed in rape, incest

Jacque Manabat, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 25 11:14 PM

Marcos Jr. said abortion should be allowed only in "severe" cases, such as rape or incest. Read more »

US makes abortion pills by mail permanent

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 17 08:45 AM

US President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday passed a rule making abortion pills accessible by mail permanently. Read more »

US out of step with much of the world on abortion

Charlotte Plantive, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 03 01:59 PM

While many countries around the world have eased restrictions on abortion, the United States is going in the other direction. Read more »

Biden praises Pope Francis' style of Catholicism

Jeff Mason and Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Nov 01 09:33 PM

"He is everything I learned about Catholicism from the time I was a kid going from grade school through high school," Biden said. Read more »

Biden says Pope told him he should keep receiving Communion

Reuters
Posted at Oct 30 12:36 AM

Biden said that Pope Francis had told him he should keep receiving Communion, amid fierce debate in the US Church over Biden's position on abortion. Read more »

Kim Seon-ho's ex-girlfriend receives apology: reports

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 21 11:30 AM

The alleged former girlfriend of Kim Seon-ho has said she received an apology from the South Korean actor, news agency Yonhap reported Thursday. Read more »

Korean actor Kim Seon-ho admits to abortion rumors: reports

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 20 01:15 PM

South Korean actor Kim Seon-ho admitted Wednesday to forcing his ex-girlfriend into getting an abortion and publicly apologized over the incident, reports said. Read more »

Women athletes back abortion rights at U.S. Supreme Court

Lawrence Hurley, Reuters
Posted at Sep 21 05:59 PM

A group of prominent women athletes urged the U.S. Supreme Court to protect abortion rights. Read more »

‘Whoever has an abortion kills’, Pope Francis says

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 16 05:01 AM

Asked about US bishops threatening to deny holy communion to Joe Biden, Francis said the Church should generally avoid taking a political stance. Read more »

Biden goes to church a day after challenge from bishops on abortion

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 20 10:19 AM

President Joe Biden went to church Saturday in his hometown a day after US Roman Catholic bishops issued a challenge to him over his support for abortion rights. Read more »

US bishops vote to draft Communion statement that may rebuke Biden for abortion views

Gabriella Borter and Julia Harte, Reuters
Posted at Jun 19 05:14 AM

A divided conference of US Roman Catholic bishops announced on Friday that they had voted to draft a statement on Holy Communion that may admonish Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, who support abortion rights. Read more »

Texas city bans abortion, allows family to sue providers, helpers

Brad Brooks, Reuters
Posted at May 04 01:28 PM

LUBBOCK, Texas - Declaring Lubbock a "sanctuary city" for the unborn, voters have approved a local ban on almost all abortions, and the Texas legislature is considering a law to bar the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Read more »

Polish doctors torn over mental health as grounds to bypass near-total abortion ban

Joanna Plucinska and Kuba Stezycki, Reuters
Posted at Mar 20 04:50 PM

Polish law now considers only incest, rape or a threat to a mother's life and health as valid grounds to terminate a pregnancy. Read more »

Women's rights: Long way to go after century of progress

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 07 05:30 AM

A World Economic Forum study found that at present rates of change gender parity still won't happen in our lifetimes. Read more »

Pope Francis urges US reconciliation as bishops call out Biden on abortion

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Jan 21 04:59 AM

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis told US President Joe Biden on Wednesday that he was praying that God would guide his efforts to bring reconciliation in the United States, while the nation's bishops condemned Biden's pro-choice stand on abortion. Read more »

Abortion becomes legal in Argentina

Sonia Avalos, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 09:18 AM

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina on Thursday became one of just a handful of Latin American countries to allow elective abortion, as neighboring Chile initiated its own debate on decriminalizing a procedure denied to most women on the continent. Read more »

Abortion protests attempting to 'destroy' Poland: ruling party

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 28 04:51 AM

WARSAW - The influential leader of Poland's ruling party on Tuesday criticized protests against a near-total ban on abortion as an attempt to "destroy" the nation and rallied party members to defend Catholic churches. Read more »

Top Polish court to rule on abortions for birth defects

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 22 01:58 PM

Poland's constitutional court will on Thursday look into a bid to tighten the devout Catholic country's abortion law, which is already one of Europe's most restrictive.  Read more »

US Supreme Court declines to block mail delivery of abortion pill

Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley, Reuters
Posted at Oct 09 09:42 AM

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily allowed a drug used for medication-induced abortions to be mailed or delivered during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more »