The government in India’s Punjab state is investigating the possible involvement of state officials in setting up illegal clinics and ultrasound centres accused of female foeticide. more

Colombia’s first legal abortion has taken place after the deeply-Catholic nation legalised the procedure in May. more

Eight hundred British people are registered with Dignitas, the Swiss clinic that helps the terminally ill end their lives – up 100 since January. more

Assisted suicide could be offered to Britons who are chronically depressed rather than terminally ill, says the head of a controversial Swiss group. more

Over the last few years abortion has been hitting the headlines with many arguing the upper limit should be reduced. But doctors who are at the front-line of the debate are struggling to come down on either side. more

“We need to ask our doctors — and our doctors need to answer — questions like, ‘What’s the shortest and longest time you think I have?’ ” she said. The other question patients might want to ask, she said, is, … Continue reading →

The latest time at which an abortion can be carried out should be cut from 24 weeks to 21 weeks, a Tory MP is due to argue in the Commons. more

A terminally-ill Bristol woman who had begun a legal fight to force doctors to let her die has withdrawn her case. She feels she has been forced to withdraw her case by the defendants and wishes to express how distressed … Continue reading →

A woman in a vegetative state will be given a sleeping pill which may “wake her up” against her family’s wishes. more

Unsafe abortions in the developing world kill 68,000 women a year, research suggests. more