The only physician officially permitted to prescribe the abortion pill, RU486, in Australia is demanding it be made available across the country.

Professor Caroline de Costa made the call in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia on Sunday

A doctor tasked to take care of the city's health in the Philippine capital of Manila, was arrested Wednesday by law enforcement authorities for allegedly harming the same people she swore to take care of by performing illegal abortions.

The National Bureau of Investigation in the Philippines accused 64-year-old Teresita Ventura, Medical Officer at the Manila City Hall health department of conducting abortions in her residence.

Ventura was arrested in a sting operation using an underground NBI agent. She was charged for violating Article 259 (abortion practiced by a physician) and 212 (corruption of public officials)

A new report in China is blaming the Web for teen pregnancies. According to a newspaper report, nearly 46 percent of pregnant teens in China's financial capital Shanghai met their partners on the Internet.

The report by Dr. Zhang Zhengrong of Shanghai's No. 411 Hospital also highlights the widespread ignorance among teenagers about sexual health. Almost half of the 20,000 girls who called the city's pregnancy hot line during the past two years said they had sex with boys they met online

Under a new proposal in India, women would be required to register their pregnancies and would need permission from the government for an abortion. Proponents of this proposal said that it would curb abortions of female fetuses in a society where boys are traditionally preferred.

According to Renuka Chowdhury, India's women and child development minister, it will help to check both feticide and infant mortality. "With this, mysterious abortions will become difficult

In a country that is the world's largest Roman Catholic nation, the government of Brazil announced that it would be adding the "morning after" pill to its birth control program for the poor. The government hopes to shrink unplanned pregnancies among the lower class and keep women from resorting to drastic measures in the conservative country that has banned abortion.

At a discussion held Monday, Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao called the morning-after ill "an important tool for the prevention of unplanned pregnancies" and will allow poor women in Brazil to have the same birth control options as rich women