The method relies on pills rather than surgery - an option that has become important during the pandemic. As Republican-led states move to restrict abortion access generally, many are limiting access to medication-induced abortions.
The US has today signed an anti-abortion declaration with a group of about 30 largely illiberal or authoritarian governments, after campaigning to find more recruits. Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman.
In discussing his likely pick, Amy Coney Barrett, Trump said "I think [overturning Roe v Wade] will work out" with her on the Supreme Court. The 1973 ruling made abortion legal in the US.
An inquest is being held in Ireland into the death last year of a pregnant Indian woman, after she was refused an abortion. The case has outraged India, but an alarmingly large number of women die in India because of unsafe abortions.
Why are politicians, overwhelmingly male politicians, putting so much focus on the legislation of female reproduction and so little on the welfare of children once they are born?
With slogans like “Black children are an endangered species,” and “The most dangerous place for an African-American is the womb,” have Pro-Lifers gone too far?