Pregnant Bahraini women will no longer know the gender of their fetus despite the advances of modern technology. The country's health authorities banned medical staff from disclosing the baby's sex to prevent abortion of female fetuses.

Among several cultures, including the Middle East, pregnant women have been known to abort female babies over the possible negative reaction of their husband once he finds out the child is a girl

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri has ruled that state inmates have the right to an abortion.

The unanimous ruling issued on Tuesday, the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion in the landmark Roe vs. Wade case, stopped the Missouri government and the state corrections department from restricting inmates' access to abortion

A new bill in Kentucky says pregnant women would have to undergo an ultrasound before they are allowed to obtain an abortion. Doctors would be required to show the ultrasound images and explain the results to the pregnant mother.

"I want to make sure women understand fully what is happening if they get an opportunity to see the little fingers and toes of the baby that they're thinking about aborting," state Sen. Jack Westwood, (R-Crescent Springs), an anti-abortion lawmaker who sponsored the bill, told WLKY. "I want them to make informed choices

Dr. Jack Kevorkian surprised a crowd of over 5,000 people at the University of Florida (UF) Tuesday night when he unleashed an attack on the "made up mythology of religion," and said that while in medical school he never took the Hippocratic Oath.

Kevorkian, 79, spent his time in Gainesville meeting with the UF ACCENT Speakers Bureau and speaking with students at a question-and-answer session ahead of his sold-out speech at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, Tuesday evening. Throughout the day though, Kevorkian's theme remained focused on the often overlooked 9th Amendment and the "terrible crisis" that is gripping the nation

A general strike by abortion clinic workers has reached its fifth day as protesters say the employees are unfairly prosecuted. The walk off closed 40 abortion clinics across the Catholic country where abortion is legal.

Francisca Garcia Gallego, a regional director of the Association of Accredited Abortion Clinics, said the strikes will affect 2,000 Spanish women who want to terminate their pregnancies. Nonetheless, the striking clinics will still take in emergency cases, Gallego said