Ten years after the world's nations pledged to achieve equality for women, a follow-up meeting has become embroiled in controversy over a U.S. demand that its final declaration state that women are not guaranteed the right to abortion.
America's religious right has scored its first legislative victory since George Bush's re-election by inserting a clause into a spending bill to undermine state laws requiring hospitals to provide abortions.
Pain bénit pour les associations de lutte antiavortement du monde entier, le pape va canoniser le 16 mai, lors d’une cérémonie officielle sur la place Saint-Pierre à Rome, une femme qui a choisi de mourir pour sauver l’enfant qu’elle attendait.
A proposal by 13 Muslim scholars that abortion be legalized for pregnancy caused by rape or incest has sparked a variety of reactions among religious leaders.
