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21 March 2017

Controversial Ruling Threatens Abortion Access in Uruguay and Beyond
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7 March 2017

Poland takes steps to restrict abortion pill; but pro-life advocates want it completely banned
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7 March 2017

Croatia Top Court Rejects Abortion Ban Demand
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26 February 2017

Judge Blocks Medicaid Cuts to Planned Parenthood in Texas
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7 February 2017

Where Is Abortion Illegal? Brazil Decriminalizes Early-Pregnancy Terminations Amid Zika Virus Debate
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25 January 2017

Trump reinstates ban on US funding for abortion overseas
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25 January 2017

Philippines will give free birth control to millions of women
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27 December 2016

Portugal Lawmakers Overturn Veto on Gay Rights, Abortion Law
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27 December 2016

The Case For Legalizing Abortion in Haiti

Research and Self Determination Index

The Research and Self-Determination Index measures the degree of freedom to investigate human biology and to exercise self-determination with regard to our bodies.
Expanding medical knowledge through research, enhancing patients’ well-being through medical treatment, and securing the best available treatment are universal aspirations shared by researchers, health care professionals and patients around the globe.
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Abortion

Abortion and contraception allow women to express their freedom of reproduction by exercising their right of self-determination over their bodies.
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Assisted reproduction

Access to assisted reproduction concerns our ability to expand our freedom of reproduction by offering us the opportunity to have children notwithstanding infertility.
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End of Life

End of life decisions concern our ability to make choices concerning the end of our lives and take of the form of refusal of life sustaining treatment, being help in committing suicide, choosing euthanasia, and make choices that must be upheld even when the person becomes unconscious.
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GM Crops

GM crops have contributed significantly to modern agriculture. Plant breeding using genetic modification techniques has led to improving crops in more targeted ways than classical breeding techniques.
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Research with embryo

Research with embryos and pre-embryos as well as therapeutic cloning concerns scientists’ freedom to investigate human biology as well as patients’ freedom to access regenerative medicine treatments that may be developed as a result of research with human embryonic stem cells.
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Right to science

The human right to science is recognized in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 15(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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Controversial Ruling Threatens Abortion Access in Uruguay and Beyond

Poland takes steps to restrict abortion pill; but pro-life advocates want it completely banned

Croatia Top Court Rejects Abortion Ban Demand

Judge Blocks Medicaid Cuts to Planned Parenthood in Texas

Where Is Abortion Illegal? Brazil Decriminalizes Early-Pregnancy Terminations Amid Zika Virus Debate

Trump reinstates ban on US funding for abortion overseas

Philippines will give free birth control to millions of women

Portugal Lawmakers Overturn Veto on Gay Rights, Abortion Law

The Case For Legalizing Abortion in Haiti

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