Anti-abortion movement
The legislation prohibits abortion in the state unless a pregnancy poses a risk to the mother's life. A legal challenge to the bill is virtually certain.
Obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr David Hackney said: "Ectopics are the crazy cherry atop a nightmare sundae.”
The Labour MP, who is pregnant, has become the target of radical campaigners who posted a graphic billboard in her constituency.
Harassment of people outside abortion clinics is a national problem and needs a national solution, Marie Stopes managing director Richard Bentley writes.
Twitter's Jack Dorsey, fashion designer Diane Von Furstenburg and more signed the ad that declares equality in the workplace is "one of the most important business issues of our time."
Streaming service Netflix said it would pull its productions out of Georgia if controversial bill HB 481 is successfully implemented in 2020. The so-called Heartbeat Bill would make abortions illegal after the detection of a foetal heartbeat. Popular Netflix show “Stranger Things”, among others, is filmed in Georgia.
"This is not a drill. This is not a warning. This is a real public health crisis”
US Supreme Court is expected to take up reproductive rights in the near future thanks to harsh new anti-abortion laws in states like Georgia and Alabama.
House Bill 896 aims to criminalise all abortions and defines the procedure as homicide, which is punishable by death in Texas.