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Washington (AFP) - Louisiana's strict abortion ban is having spillover effects across women's health care in the US state, leading doctors to turn away patients for routine prenatal visits and perform unnecessary Cesarean sections, according to a report released Tuesday. Conservative Louisiana, in the Deep South, joined a dozen other states in implementing a near-total ban on abortion after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to the procedure in 2022. But a joint fact-finding mission conducted from May to November last year by four medical NGOs charges that Louisiana's abortion b...
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Washington (AFP) - After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, women who were undergoing fertility treatments in the southern US state had their lives thrown into shock and uncertainty. One woman had her long-awaited embryo transfer canceled, while another did not know when or if she would be able to retrieve her frozen eggs, they told US media. The state supreme court ruled in mid-February that embryos created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) should have the rights of children. Destroying abnormal or non-viable embryos -- among other common measures practiced by fer...
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Paris (AFP) - Conservative counter-campaigns are unravelling global advances in women's rights, the latest "backlash" in a series dating to the 1980s, activists and experts warned ahead of International Women's Day on Friday. Organised and politicised, the counter-movement unpicks abortion rights, fuels online hate and harassment and encourages domestic violence, researchers say. "Global progress towards gender equality has slowed across regions, and targeted rollbacks of women's and girls' legally protected rights have significantly intensified," the United Nations warned in a report last yea...
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Washington (AFP) - The Bidens have invited a Texas woman who was forced to leave the state to have an emergency abortion to attend the State of the Union address, the White House announced on Wednesday. The move comes as the US president is making the defense of reproductive rights a key theme of his reelection campaign. Kate Cox has agreed to attend the annual major policy address, held this year on March 7, that is traditionally given by US presidents to Congress, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. The story of Cox, a mother of two from Dallas who sued for the right...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump went straight from his victory in the Republican Iowa caucuses to a New York courtroom Tuesday for the start of a defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll after an earlier jury found he had sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. In court, the former US president did not make any statements, and he and Carroll avoided looking at each other while jurors were being selected, according to reporters allowed inside the courtroom. But Trump continued attacking Carroll on his Truth Social platform, reposting a clip from an interview she gave to CNN and writing, "C...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Among the more than 3,500 booths at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, only a few focus exclusively on women's health, including a cervical cancer screening device and a wristband to anticipate hot flushes. South Korea's Aidot presented Cerviray AI, which enables remote screening for uterine cancer with the help of artificial intelligence. According to the World Health Organization, it is the fourth most common cancer in women with around 570,000 new cases and around 311,000 deaths reported worldwide in 2018. Yet uterine cancer is one of the easiest forms of ca...
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New York (AFP) - New York's Metropolitan Museum has pulled the curtain back on its latest blockbuster exhibit, showcasing women couturiers many of whom have been kept in the shadows of obscurity until now. One of the centerpieces of the "Women dressing women" exhibition is a dress by pioneering African-American designer Ann Lowe who was largely ignored in her day, even though she designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding gown in 1953. The muslin dress is exquisitely detailed, sporting silk roses and intricate taffeta. Three decades before Jackie O stepped out in Lowe's masterpiece, forgotten French fa...
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Washington (AFP) - A year after the US Supreme Court abolished nationwide access to abortion care, many American women are settling into a new reality: arranging costly trips to terminate their pregnancies in states where the procedure is still allowed. Comprehensive national abortion statistics are hard to come by in the United States because data is split between medical facilities and organizations that provide abortion pills by mail. But a recent study indicates a sharp rise in abortions in states that neighbor those which have moved to ban the procedure following the landmark court decisi...
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New York (AFP) - Genius or misogynist -- or both? Fifty years after art icon Pablo Picasso's death, his legacy is reassessed by comedian Hannah Gadsby in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition in New York, this time through a contemporary, feminist lens. In her 2018 Netflix special "Nanette," Gadsby expressed "hate" for the Spanish master of Cubism and the creator of works like "Guernica" and "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." But in "It's Pablo-matic: Picasso according to Hannah Gadsby" (June 2 through September 24) -- one of the many eagerly awaited shows under the aegis of France and Spain marking the 50th...
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Washington (AFP) - The South Carolina Senate voted on Tuesday to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, despite an attempt to block the bill by the legislative body's five female lawmakers, including three Republicans. The bill now heads to the governor of the southern US state, and he has said he intends to sign the bill into law. It would make South Carolina the latest state to limit abortion since the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to the procedure last year. At six weeks, many women don't know they are pregnant. Even if they did, many abortion clinics have weeks-long waitin...
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