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What Reform UK’s senior figures really think about women and families

As Reform UK surges in the polls and attempts to get its top team ready to fight an election, The Independent has taken a look at exactly what key figures in the party have said about marriage, women, abortion and fertility – and what it might mean for policy

The Independent UK

Kash Patel’s girlfriend picked to sing National Anthem before Pete Hegseth’s anti-abortion address

‘We are not ‘In woke we trust,’ we are ‘In God we trust,’’ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during the event

The Independent UK

Texas House candidates in South Texas face allegations of lying about their party affiliation

Republicans hope to flip the Rio Grande Valley state House seat, long held by Democrats.

The Texas Tribune

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Cuts Aimed at Abortion Are Hitting Basic Care

Emergency state support for Planned Parenthood can’t fully offset lost Medicaid dollars, and patients are paying the price.

Capital & Main

Texas Tech medical school cancels talk on health, ethical considerations in late-pregnancy abortions

University leaders declined to give a reason. Abortion opponents said the discussion would have promoted illegal activity, something advocates deny.

The Texas Tribune

Ken Paxton’s ‘Shoddy’ Prosecution of a Midwife Is Part of a Strategy to Expand His Power. Low-Income Houstonians Are Paying the Price.

Maria Margarita Rojas is the first healthcare provider charged for abortion care under Texas’ strict criminal ban. Her attorneys say the state has no evidence—yet her clinics remain shuttered.

Texas Observer

Woman denied legal abortion sent to maximum-security prison after illegally terminating pregnancy

A young woman in Zambia was sent to a maximum-security prison after she was denied a legal abortion

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‘Unborn babies are now treated as human beings’: Puerto Rico signs historic law recognising the fetus

Puerto Rico's governor signed a law recognizing unborn children as human beings in criminal cases, aiming to punish violence against pregnant women. While officials insist it doesn't ban abortion, critics fear this legal shift could undermine reproductive rights and medical autonomy, sparking widespread debate and unease among medical professionals.

The Times of India

One Of My Favorite Rom-Coms Is On Netflix, But It Might Be Too Dark For Some People

Jenny Slate's 2014 rom-com is still worth a watch in 2026.

Cinemablend

Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals

A figure commonly used to compare the risk of death from pregnancy compared with the risk of death from abortion might be based on outdated data, a new study suggests.

LiveScience

Rebel Queensland LNP MP urges colleagues to ‘put on the full armour of God’ and speak against abortion

Nigel Dalton says he sought to redeem himself ‘in the eyes of God’ by crossing the floor in an attempt to overturn the LNP’s abortion debate gag order

The Guardian - AU

Federal Court Recognizes Constitutional Right to Abortion to Prevent Serious Harm to Woman's Health

The court also draws an interesting analogy to self-defense rights.

Reason

Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to Texas shelter criticized as medically inadequate

Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

The Texas Tribune

A Viral Story Claims an ICE Worker Was Caught in a Child Sex Trafficking Sting. The Truth Is Much Stranger.

The way people are misconstruing this prostitution sting mirrors the way ICE tries to mislead us about deportation stings.

Reason

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The Guardian - AU

Abortion laws, gun control and the rise (again) of One Nation: is Queensland’s LNP fraying at the seams?

David Crisafulli’s government is a triumph of pragmatism over purpose, but cracks have appeared that could have consequences beyond the state border

The Independent UK

Las Vegas woman says her healthy baby survived abortion after doctors twice told her it was ‘non-viable,’ lawsuit claims

Stacy Norris says that she had a ‘maternal instinct’ that told her to get a second opinion on whether or not her baby was alive

The Guardian - AU

Authorities seek to remove from social media image of foetus being circulated by Australian anti-abortion activists

Photograph, first published by anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe, purportedly taken at Townsville hospital

The Texas Tribune

After years of silence, Texas Medical Board issues training on how to legally provide abortions

The course includes examples of when abortion is permitted to protect the life of the patient, but many experts say pregnancy complications are impossible to capture in a brief presentation.

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The Conversation

Federal and state authorities are taking a 2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion

Anti-abortion conservatives have long sought to force Planned Parenthood’s clinics to close their doors and to make it harder, if not impossible, to get abortion pills as part of a two-pronged approach to limit access to abortion.

The Guardian - AU

Townsville hospital investigates after South Australian anti-abortion activist posts image of aborted foetus

Joanna Howe claims a ‘whistleblower’ sent her the image, which was taken inside the hospital’s room for grieving parents

The Guardian - US

Texas man sues California doctor for allegedly sending abortion pills to state

Suit is the first under new law allowing residents to sue providers protected in their states under ‘shield laws’

The Texas Tribune

Ken Paxton suing California doctor in second lawsuit citing Texas abortion pill law

Paxton's suit follows another by a Galveston County man against the same doctor. Both cite House Bill 7, passed in September, that allows lawsuits over abortion pill access.

The Guardian - UK

Diane Munday obituary

Pioneering abortion campaigner whose beliefs were underpinned by humanism

The Independent UK

Planned Parenthood drops lawsuit against Trump administration's Medicaid cuts

Planned Parenthood has dropped its legal challenge against the Trump administration's decision to cut off Medicaid funding to its abortion providers

The Guardian - US

These states voted to protect abortion rights. Conservative lawmakers are not standing down

A trial in Missouri illustrates how hard it is to restore abortion rights, even when voters demand it

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