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Added on the 14/05/2022 20:32:05 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Dozens of abortion rights supporters rally against a Texas judge's decision to reverse the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, DC. On Friday, the nation's highest court temporarily preserved access to mifepristone, in an 11th-hour ruling preventing lower court restrictions on the drug from coming into force. IMAGES
Australians brave the pouring rain in Sydney to protest for abortion rights, a week after the US Supreme Court's landmark decision to reverse its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that enshrined abortion rights at the federal level. IMAGES
Poles take to the streets of Warsaw on International Women's Day to demand free access to contraceptives. Although pro-Western parties managed to oust the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government in October 2023 elections, women are voicing anger and frustration over delays in changing the laws on women's reproductive rights. The PiS's eight-year rule saw access to abortion, in-vitro fertilisation and emergency contraception tightened. IMAGES
Hundreds of people gather at Paris' Trocadero as French lawmakers are expected to anchor the right to abortion in the country's constitution, a world first that has garnered overwhelming public support. IMAGES
Women demonstrate in favour of the decriminalization of abortion on International Day for the Right to Abortion, in front of the Supreme Court in Santiago de Chile. IMAGES