Spanish Media Claim 1 Million People Participated in Madrid’s Anti-abortion Rally

Spanish media has claimed around a million people are estimated to have participated in an anti-abortion rally in Madrid on Saturday. Protesters were demonstrating against Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s plans to relax the Catholic...

Abortion And the Irrelevance of Government

The murder of abortion doctor George Tiller while he was ushering in his church in Wichita, Kansas (once again living up to its historical “bloody” epithet) has left the BBC wondering why anti-abortion forces in the United States are so...

Catholic Church in Brazil Speaks Against Abortion for Raped 9-year-old

The Catholic Church in Brazil has spoken out against plans for an abortion for a nine-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather, national media reported citing church representatives. After the girl from the northeastern state of Pernambuco complained...

Russians Choose Abortion As Their Top Birth-Control Option

Dilyara Latypova is a gynecologist in the Russian republic of Tatarstan. With more than 25 years of experience, she’s seen some progress in family planning since the days of the Soviet Union, when such topics were largely taboo. Still, she says,...