To Be Mom

As said before, 'raising a girl is like watering the neighbor's garden', defines the mindset not only of the so-called modern India but also of people residing abroad. Lately, in Canada, certain advertisements for ultrasound clinics are promoting...

History shows that religion and society have twisted, turned and changed according to human whims and fancies, at time for good and at times for worse. But hypocrisy that lies inside human hearts has never yielded to agree on this. There have been...

In the war-torn region of Darfur, rape is an instrument of war. Women are deliberately targeted to score psychological points over their opponents. Can there be any doubt that it will be the woman assaulted who will decide whether she wants the child...

Portugal has introduced a new law that will allow women to have an abortion up to the 10th week of pregnancy. However the new law has also imposed a three-day reflection period in which women will have to seek the procedure and grant doctors' right...

In a decision that's likely to dominate politics today -- perhaps more than the Virginia Tech shootings -- the US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, has upheld the nationwide ban on the so-called 'partial-birth' abortion procedure. Supreme Court of the...

According to the Italian law, minor girls are not given any right in making decisions with regards to aborting their child or not. The decision is left entirely in the hands of the girl's parents. As result, a judge in a recent case ordered an unwilling..

Portugal's Socialist government has pushed a law of legalizing abortion, bypassing an earlier promise to hold a referendum on the issue. Although, previously abortions were allowed in cases of rape, a health threat to the mother or serious fetal...

Father Ronaldo Alvarez, priest of a Catholic church at San Francisco in Central Managua believes: Abortion is the murder of an unborn child. Just because you can't see the baby, doesn't mean it has no right. Even the President of Nicaragua, Enrique...

Most of the women fear that a past abortion might affect their chances of getting pregnant but this is not the case. However, in certain cases, several dilations and curettages can lead to scratching at the top of the cervix or inside the uterus,...