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    Abortion At Home? Search Engine Might Not Give You The Best Advice

    As per WHO, abortion is a common health intervention and is safe when it is carried out by a method recommended by WHO and performed or directed by a person who has the necessary skills and qualifications. Around 45 per cent of all abortions are unsafe out of which 97 per cent take place in […] More

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    Florida Comes Up With 6-Week Abortion Ban, Texas’ Court Trying to Limit Pill Use: Is India Relatively Liberal?

    Florida Comes Up With 6-Week Abortion Ban, Texas’ Court Trying to Limit Pill Use: Is India Relatively Liberal?

    A recent bill signed in Florida seeks to ban most abortions after six weeks following conception and establishment of pregnancy. The bill has attracted an uproar from women who are opposing it with fury as it endangers their right to personal autonomy and prevents them from seeking abortion for the right reasons. Reportedly in April […] More

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    Pfizer, Biogen among hundreds of US drugmakers calling for abortion pill Mifepristone ruling reversal

    Pfizer, Biogen among hundreds of US drugmakers calling for abortion pill Mifepristone ruling reversal

    US: Executives from more than 300 biotech and pharmaceutical industry companies, including Pfizer Inc and Biogen Inc, signed an open letter on Monday calling for reversal of a federal judge’s decision to suspend sales of the abortion pill mifepristone. A U.S. judge on Friday suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the drug, […] More

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    Quack arrested for running illegal abortion clinic in Gurugram

    Gurugram: In an ongoing investigation to crack down on illegal abortion racket in the state, the Haryana health department and the police squad arrested a 46-year-old fake doctor for allegedly carrying out abortions and selling pregnancy termination kits on Teekli road in Badshahpur.  A class 12 pass-out, was running Rajlaxmi Clinic on Teekli road in […] More