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The damage caused by the controversial US policy will only start showing when it’s too late to reverse it, activists and researchers argue.

In the war on women's bodies, the casualties stretch far beyond US' 50 states.

Maternal deaths in developing regions would fall by 73% if all women had access to contraception and maternal healthcare, shows new research.

"Women are blamed for infertility when, in fact, as we know from research, it is quite often on the man’s side.”

Governments and even anonymous do-gooders are stepping into fill the funding gap left by the US decision, but their pockets will never be deep enough.

Go inside the international network of women willing to break the law to give people access to termination of pregnancy services.

By the age of 10, children’s ideas about gender, relationships and violence are largely set in stone.

After almost two decades, the South African Law Reform Commission chose fiction over facts.

Left with little choice, many women turn to illegal abortionists to terminate their pregnancies.

The joy of motherhood is killed by a moral and ethical dilemma when doctors advise termination of a pregnancy.

Clinics dedicated to young people are ideal but the poor nation struggles to provide at least a basic service for those who can't access them.

Unintended pregnancies and abortions in Nigeria could be reduced if myths are dispelled and young women have the right information.

Backstreet abortion ‘doctors’ profit from stigma as patients are stripped of their dignity – and lives.

Healthworker hostility and a lack of information are denying women access to emergency contraception, locking them into an unintended fate.

Simple phone services are stepping in to help women who can't seek clinical advice in person.

Access to ARVs is improving, but poor attitudes to patients are aggravating maternal mortality rates.