The US president has accused Republican senator Tommy Tuberville of threatening national security and has urged the Republican Party to take a stand.
A Republican Senator is blocking the promotions due to his objection to the Pentagon allowing women to take leave or travel if they need an abortion.
All doctors and nurse practitioners will be able to prescribe the pregnancy termination pill,and all pharmacies can stock it as the government slashes red tape.
The man charged with raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who travelled to neighbouring Indiana to obtain an abortion has been sentenced.
Abortion services are a patchwork across the country,with rules that differ between states and territories and many public hospitals or GPs that refuse to provide terminations.
A year since the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade,more than a dozen states have near-total bans on abortion and the issue is looming large in the march to the 2024 vote.
“We will defeat the radical Democrat policy of extreme late-term abortion,” the former president,who has been relatively quiet on the subject,told a conference in Washington.
Premier Roger Cook said Western Australia’s abortion laws had fallen well behind other jurisdictions.
A Greens-led parliamentary inquiry made recommendations for cheaper and easier access to birth control. It found that for many women,reproductive healthcare is a postcode lottery.
I told myself:I can’t force a child to be born into a minuscule,poorly heated apartment,with no financial stability and no future prospects.
It is a small,albeit,temporary victory for women’s reproductive rights,which President Joe Biden vowed to defend.