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GLOBAL NEWS
COLOMBIA
LANDMARK DECISION BY COLOMBIA'S HIGHEST COURT LIBERALISES ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST RESTRICTIVE ABORTION LAWS
Colombia’s Constitution Requires Government to Allow for Abortion in Some Cases. May 11, 2006 | New York, NY
In a landmark decision, Colombia’s highest court has ruled that abortion must be permitted when a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life or health, in cases of rape, incest and in cases where the fetus has malformations incompatible with life outside the womb. Until today, Colombia outlawed abortion in all circumstances... Read more
First legal abortion in Colombia
Date: Friday, August 25, 2006
Source: BBC News
Author: Jeremy McDermott
DATELINE: Bogota
Colombia's first legal abortion has taken place after the deeply Catholic nation legalised the procedure in May... Read more
GLOBAL NEWS/CANADA
JUDGE ORDERS QUEBEC TO REIMBURSE ABORTION COSTS
- Olivier Bourque
Canadian Press
MONTREAL - A court judgment that orders the Quebec government to give more than $13-million to nearly 45,000 women who had to pay for abortions is a victory for women, a Quebec doctor said Friday... Read more
GLOBAL NEWS/ETHIOPIA
Moving forward: Ethiopia develops new safe abortion guidelines.
Source: Ipas Press Room August 1, 2006. (Slightly modified by Upeka de Silva.) www.ipas.org
Commemorating World Population day on July 10, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health released guidelines for safe abortion services, making major progress toward implementing the May 2005 revisions of the country’s abortion law... Read more
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