Subject: Abortion (Keywords)

An Onassis-like tycoon is nearing the end of his life. When he finds out that his daughter is pregnant by a man he does not approve of, he has a birthday party for her on his private island, secretly intending to persuade her to end the pregnancy with a doctor standing by to perform the procedure...

Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder - a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur...

When a young girl is gunned down as she walks out of an abortion clinic, reporter Laura Ackroyd and her boyfriend, DCI Michael Thackeray, are soon immersed in the case. It becomes clear that the surgeon who runs the abortion unit is not a popular man.

In a series of brief arguments reframing the abortion issue, Gabrielle Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women's bodies and instead directs the focus on men's lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies.

In 1963, 23-year-old literature student Annie Ernaux had an abortion which nearly killed her. 40 years later, she looks back on how the experience affected her. Ernaux is the acclaimed author of A Woman's Story, A Man's Place and Simple Passion.

This is the story of an abortion. The days and hours before the first doctor's appointment and the weeks and months after. The pregnancy was a mistake and the narrator immediately arranges a termination. But a gulf yawns between politics and personal experience. The polarised public debate and th...

In 2017 Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to West Virginia and was surviving on a teacher's salary and raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swafford. Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock. Chris...

When the classmate she is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier, and examine how it has changed her life.

On the evening of 2nd May this year, a 98-page draft memo was leaked that suggested the US Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that enshrined constitutional protections for women seeking abortion. If that happens, abortion will instantly become illegal in 22 US states...

Abortion is illegal in almost every circumstance in Ireland, making it the only democracy in the western world to have such a constitutional ban. Between 1980 and 2015, at least 165,438 Irish women and girls accessed UK abortion services. In 2016, the figure was 3,265. Any woman or girl who procu...