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In landmark decision, Argentina legalises elective abortion
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], December 30 (ANI): Argentina on Wednesday voted to legalise elective abortion, becoming the largest Latin American country to do so.
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Poland's Warsaw hit by protests against abortion ban
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Warsaw [Poland], November 28 (ANI/Sputnik): Poland's feminist organization Strajk Kobiet (Women's Strike) has organized a protest in downtown Warsaw on Saturday to draw public attention to the decision of Poland's Constitutional Court to outlaw abortions and to commemorate the 102nd annivers
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South Korea to legalise abortions within 14 weeks without reasons
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], October 7 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korea has decided to amend the anti-abortion law with the right granted to a woman to terminate the pregnancy in the period within 14 weeks at her request without any reasons, the South Korean Ministry of Justice announced on Wednesday.
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Kim Kardashian could divorce Kanye West over his stance on abortion: Sourc
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 21 (ANI): American reality TV star Kim Kardashian is thinking about divorcing Kanye West in light of his latest episode, as told to the sources.
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China involved in mass rapes, abortions of Uyghur women, alleges activist
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI): A renowned Uyghur American activist and advocate from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China has alleged that Uyghur women have been facing genocide in the hands of Chinese as they are being raped, tortured and brainwashed.
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Kim Kardashian reportedly 'mortified' and 'desperately worried' following
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 21 (ANI): American rapper Kanye West's campaign rally, in which he claimed he and now-wife Kim Kardashian discussed aborting their first child, has left Kim "mortified" and "desperately worried" the rapper is not taking medication for his mental health, sources c
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Odisha: Absconding Inspector-in-charge arrested in connection with rape, a
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Rourkela (Odisha) [India], July 2 (ANI): Anand Chandra Majhi, Inspector-in-charge of Biramitrapur police station in Sundergarh district, who was dismissed from service and was absconding, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Sundergarh district who l
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Odisha cop dismissed over rape, abortion of minor girl; Police tenders pub
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 1 (ANI): Director General of Police (DGP), Odisha on Wednesday dismissed the suspended Inspector In-Charge of Birmitrapur police station of Sundergarh district for his alleged involvement in gang-rape of a minor girl and her abortion.
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Bombay HC allows minor rape victim to abort 25-week-old pregnancy
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 1 (ANI): Bombay High Court has allowed a minor rape victim to abort a 25-week-old foetus observing that the continuance of pregnancy is causing a grave injury to her mental health and poses a risk to her life.
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Delhi HC directs AIIMS to examine medical condition of woman seeking abort
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to constitute a medical board and examine and determine the medical condition of a woman and her fetus, who is seeking termination of her pregnancy as there are c
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Lok Sabha passes Bill to raise abortion upper limit to 24 weeks for vulner
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): A Bill that provides for raising the upper limit for legal termination of pregnancy from 20 to 24 weeks and expands the access of women to safe and legal abortion services on "therapeutic, eugenic, humanitarian and social grounds" was passed by Lok Sabha on
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Argentine President to propose legalising abortions
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], Mar 02 (ANI): Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said he will send a motion to the parliament in the coming days to legalise abortions.
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