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Biden calls top court ruling on Texas abortion ban ‘unprecedented assault’ on women’s rights

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 – President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Texas’ abortion ban “is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights,” after the top court allowed the law to remain in place. read more Biden said while the ruling was not the […]

South Korean court orders easing of abortion ban

SEOUL, South Korea  — In a major reversal, South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the easing of the country’s decades-long ban on abortions, one of the strictest in the developed world. Abortions have been largely illegal in South Korea since 1953, though convictions for violating the ban […]

South Korea constitutional court to rule on abortion ban

South Korea’s constitutional court is to rule Thursday on the legality of a decades-old abortion ban that campaigners say endangers women, in what could be a historic decision. The South is one of the few industrialised nations where the procedure is illegal except for instances of rape, incest […]

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