A federal appeals court ruling this week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must restore certain safeguards for chemical abortion drugs has prompted reactions from pro-life and pro-choice advocacy groups.
A Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter abort her baby after 20 weeks gestation and assisting with attempting to bury and burn the unborn child has pleaded guilty to several charges.
When Argentine trainee nursery teacher Lourdes, 24, went to the doctor in March seeking to end her pregnancy she was one of the first in the country to be prescribed abortion pill mifepristone after local regulators had approved it fully just weeks earlier.