Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
MPs Vote to Decriminalise Abortion for Women in England and Wales
House of Commons, Public Stairs, Westminster, Millbank, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, SW1A 0AA, United KingdomHouse of Commons of the United Kingdom
Starts 06/17/2025 6:00PM CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoAl Jazeera^[1] (17 June 2025): "The amendment passed 379-137"; the Commons division record timestamps New Clause 1 at 2025-06-17T19:00 (BST).
The House of Commons voted 379 to 137 on 17 June 2025 for Tonia Antoniazzi's amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, taking women out of the criminal law on abortion for ending their own pregnancies.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
Deadline for EU Countries to Enforce the Violence Against Women Directive
European Commission, Rue de la Loi - Wetstraat, Quartier des Squares - Wijk van de Squares, European Quarter, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1040, BelgiumEuropean Union
Starts 06/14/2027 SCHEDULED 78% CONFIDENCEin 262 daysEuropean Commission: "Member States will have until 14 June 2027 to transpose the Directive into their national law and policy."^[1]
Member states must write Directive (EU) 2024/1385, the EU's first law on violence against women, into national law by 14 June 2027, including new crimes of female genital mutilation, forced marriage, cyber stalking and sharing intimate images without consent.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
Texas HB 7 Takes Effect, Letting Citizens Sue Abortion-Pill Providers
Texas State Capitol, 112, East 11th Street, Downtown, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78701, United StatesTexas Legislature
Starts 12/04/2025 CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE295 days agoThe Legislature's bill history for 89(2) HB 7 reads "Effective on . . . December 4, 2025" after "Signed by the Governor 09/17/2025"; the act has no expiry clause.^[1]
Texas's Woman and Child Protection Act takes effect, letting private citizens sue anyone who makes, mails or provides abortion pills into Texas for at least $100,000 per violation, while barring suits against the woman.
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Policy09/25/2026@WomenDesk
UN Women's Commission Adopts Its Conclusions by Vote for the First Time
United Nations Secretariat Building, 405, East 42nd Street, Tudor City, Manhattan Community Board 6, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10017, United StatesUN Women
Starts 03/09/2026 CONFIRMED 81% CONFIDENCE200 days agoUN Women^[1] press release (New York, 10 March 2026): at CSW70 "on 9 March 2026, member states adopted ... a set of Agreed Conclusions"; DSW^[6] confirms "adopted on 9 March 2026 by recorded vote".
At CSW70 in New York on 9 March 2026, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted its Agreed Conclusions on access to justice for women and girls by recorded vote, 37 to 1 with 6 abstentions, after the United States broke the usual consensus.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
France Writes Abortion Freedom Into Its Constitution in Versailles Vote
Palace of Versailles, Rue de la Chancellerie, Saint-Louis, Versailles, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, Metropolitan France, 78000, FranceFrench Parliament
Starts 03/04/2024 CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE2.6 years agoPublic Sénat: "Députés et sénateurs réunis en Congrès ont approuvé lundi 4 mars la constitutionnalisation de l'interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG), par 780 voix pour et 72 contre."^[1]
Meeting in Congress at Versailles on 4 March 2024, France's deputies and senators voted 780 to 72 to add women's guaranteed freedom to have an abortion to the Constitution, the first country to do so.
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Elections09/25/2026@PoliticsDesk
Missouri Votes on Amendment 3 to Repeal 2024 Abortion Rights
Missouri State Capitol, 201, West Capitol Avenue, Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, 65101, United States
Starts 11/03/2026 12:00PM SCHEDULED 78% CONFIDENCEin 39 daysThe Secretary of State lists Amendment 3 among the measures "certified for the November 3, 2026 general election"; polls are open 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.^[1]
Missouri voters decide whether to repeal the abortion-rights amendment they passed in 2024 and allow abortion only in emergencies, for fetal anomalies, or for rape and incest before 12 weeks.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
Italy's Parliament Makes Femicide a Crime Punishable by Life in Prison
Palazzo Montecitorio, Via dell'Impresa, Colonna, Municipio Roma I, Rome, Roma Capitale, Lazio, 00187, ItalyChamber of Deputies (Italy)
Starts 11/25/2025 CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE304 days agoUniPD Human Rights Centre: "On November 25, 2025 ... the Chamber of Deputies unanimously gave final approval to the bill introducing the crime of 'feminicide' (A.C. 2528)".^[1]
On 25 November 2025 Italy's Chamber of Deputies unanimously gave final approval to a law making femicide a crime of its own, article 577-bis of the Criminal Code, punished with life imprisonment.
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Law09/25/2026@LawDesk
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Mifepristone in FDA v. Alliance
Supreme Court of the United States, 1, 1st Street Northeast, Ward 6, Washington, District of Columbia, 20543, United StatesSupreme Court of the United States
Starts 06/13/2024 CONFIRMED 84% CONFIDENCE2.3 years agoThe slip opinion in No. 23-235 is headed "Argued March 26, 2024—Decided June 13, 2024".^[1]
A unanimous Supreme Court threw out anti-abortion doctors' challenge to the FDA's rules for the abortion pill mifepristone, holding they had no standing to sue, so mail and telehealth access stayed in place.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
Taliban Publish a Vice-and-Virtue Law Silencing Women in Public
Ministry of Justice, NH0104;NH08, 2nd District, Kabul, Kabul District, Kabul Province, 1001, AfghanistanTaliban
Starts 08/21/2024 CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoCentre for Information Resilience: "On 21 August 2024, the Taliban's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced the publication of the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (PVPV) Law in the Ministry's Official Gazette"; the law has no sunset.^[1]
The Taliban's Ministry of Justice published the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law on 21 August 2024: 35 articles that make women cover their faces and bodies, bar their voices from being heard in public and stop them travelling without a male guardian.
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Elections09/25/2026@PoliticsDesk
Missouri Voters Pass Amendment 3, Restoring Abortion Rights
Missouri State Capitol, 201, West Capitol Avenue, Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, 65101, United States
Starts 11/05/2024 12:00PM CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE1.9 years agoThe Secretary of State's official results are for the "General Election - November 5, 2024", and its election-day page says "Polling places open at 6:00 a.m. and remain open until 7:00 p.m."^[1]
Missouri voters approved Amendment 3 by 1,538,659 votes to 1,443,022, writing a right to reproductive freedom, including abortion up to fetal viability, into the state constitution and overturning the state's near-total ban.
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Law09/25/2026@LawDesk
Fifth Circuit Reinstates In-Person Dispensing for Mifepristone
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, 600, Camp Street, Central Business District, French Quarter, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, 70130, United StatesUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Starts 05/01/2026 CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE147 days agoThe opinion in No. 26-30203 is stamped "FILED May 1, 2026" and orders that "the motion to stay the 2023 REMS under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending appeal is GRANTED".^[1]
A Fifth Circuit panel granted Louisiana a stay of the FDA's 2023 mifepristone rules, ending telehealth prescribing and mail or pharmacy dispensing of the abortion pill nationwide until the Supreme Court stepped in.
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Policy09/25/2026@WomenDesk
EU Signs the Women on Boards Directive Setting a 40% Board Target
Bâtiment Louise-Weiss, 1, Allée du Printemps, Wacken, Robertsau, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Collectivité européenne d'Alsace, Grand Est, France métropolitaine, 67070, FranceEuropean Union
11/23/2022 - 12/31/2038 CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE3.8 years agoThe Publications Office record is "Directive (EU) 2022/2381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022", the text ends "Done at Strasbourg, 23 November 2022", and Article 14 says "It shall expire on 31 December 2038", so the period ends at the exclusive 1 January 2039 boundary.^[1]
Roberta Metsola and the Council presidency sign Directive (EU) 2022/2381 in Strasbourg, requiring large EU listed companies to have at least 40% of non-executive seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex by 30 June 2026.
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legislation.gov.uk^[1][2]: "S. 241 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(2)(j)", and the Act's enacted text is dated [29th April 2026]; no sunset, so the period is open-ended.

Start: Apr 29, 202695% CONFIDENCEfrom legislation.gov.uk

Crime and Policing Act Takes Women Out of Abortion Law in England and Wales

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026, and its section 241 took effect at once: no woman commits an offence under abortion law by acting in relation to her own pregnancy.

Section 241 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 says that, for abortion law including sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929, no offence is committed by a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy^[1]
The section came into force at Royal Assent on 29 April 2026^[1][2]
It does not change the wider abortion law, time limits or when abortions are available^[3]
The House of Lords added Baroness Thornton's amendment pardoning women with police records or past investigations for ending their own pregnancies^[3]
Peers also voted to keep telemedicine for early medical abortion^[3]
Since 2020 around 100 women had faced police investigation, six had faced court and one had been jailed, according to Humanists UK^[3]

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legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/241
legislation.gov.uk· Posted Sep 25, 2026· Starts Apr 29, 2026· 47% of score
legislation.gov.uk^[2]: "S. 241 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(2)(j)", and the Act's enacted text is dated [29th April 2026]; no sunset, so the period is open-ended.
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Crime and Policing Act 2026 (as enacted)
legislation.gov.uk· Published Apr 29, 2026· Starts Apr 29, 2026 ✓· 26% of score
The enacted Act is dated [29th April 2026], the day of Royal Assent.^[1]
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Success! Decriminalisation of abortion and historic pardons for women become law
humanists.uk· Published Apr 29, 2026· 26% of score
The bill passed all stages and received Royal Assent; the Lords added Baroness Thornton's amendment pardoning women convicted or investigated for ending their own pregnancies, and rejected anti-abortion amendments including one on telemedicine.^[1]

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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
MPs Vote to Decriminalise Abortion for Women in England and Wales
House of Commons, Public Stairs, Westminster, Millbank, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, SW1A 0AA, United KingdomHouse of Commons of the United Kingdom
Starts 06/17/2025 6:00PM CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoAl Jazeera^[1] (17 June 2025): "The amendment passed 379-137"; the Commons division record timestamps New Clause 1 at 2025-06-17T19:00 (BST).
The House of Commons voted 379 to 137 on 17 June 2025 for Tonia Antoniazzi's amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, taking women out of the criminal law on abortion for ending their own pregnancies.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
Deadline for EU Countries to Enforce the Violence Against Women Directive
European Commission, Rue de la Loi - Wetstraat, Quartier des Squares - Wijk van de Squares, European Quarter, Brussels, Brussels-Capital, 1040, BelgiumEuropean Union
Starts 06/14/2027 SCHEDULED 78% CONFIDENCEin 262 daysEuropean Commission: "Member States will have until 14 June 2027 to transpose the Directive into their national law and policy."^[1]
Member states must write Directive (EU) 2024/1385, the EU's first law on violence against women, into national law by 14 June 2027, including new crimes of female genital mutilation, forced marriage, cyber stalking and sharing intimate images without consent.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
Texas HB 7 Takes Effect, Letting Citizens Sue Abortion-Pill Providers
Texas State Capitol, 112, East 11th Street, Downtown, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78701, United StatesTexas Legislature
Starts 12/04/2025 CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE295 days agoThe Legislature's bill history for 89(2) HB 7 reads "Effective on . . . December 4, 2025" after "Signed by the Governor 09/17/2025"; the act has no expiry clause.^[1]
Texas's Woman and Child Protection Act takes effect, letting private citizens sue anyone who makes, mails or provides abortion pills into Texas for at least $100,000 per violation, while barring suits against the woman.
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Policy09/25/2026@WomenDesk
UN Women's Commission Adopts Its Conclusions by Vote for the First Time
United Nations Secretariat Building, 405, East 42nd Street, Tudor City, Manhattan Community Board 6, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10017, United StatesUN Women
Starts 03/09/2026 CONFIRMED 81% CONFIDENCE200 days agoUN Women^[1] press release (New York, 10 March 2026): at CSW70 "on 9 March 2026, member states adopted ... a set of Agreed Conclusions"; DSW^[6] confirms "adopted on 9 March 2026 by recorded vote".
At CSW70 in New York on 9 March 2026, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted its Agreed Conclusions on access to justice for women and girls by recorded vote, 37 to 1 with 6 abstentions, after the United States broke the usual consensus.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
France Writes Abortion Freedom Into Its Constitution in Versailles Vote
Palace of Versailles, Rue de la Chancellerie, Saint-Louis, Versailles, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, Metropolitan France, 78000, FranceFrench Parliament
Starts 03/04/2024 CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE2.6 years agoPublic Sénat: "Députés et sénateurs réunis en Congrès ont approuvé lundi 4 mars la constitutionnalisation de l'interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG), par 780 voix pour et 72 contre."^[1]
Meeting in Congress at Versailles on 4 March 2024, France's deputies and senators voted 780 to 72 to add women's guaranteed freedom to have an abortion to the Constitution, the first country to do so.
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Elections09/25/2026@PoliticsDesk
Missouri Votes on Amendment 3 to Repeal 2024 Abortion Rights
Missouri State Capitol, 201, West Capitol Avenue, Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, 65101, United States
Starts 11/03/2026 12:00PM SCHEDULED 78% CONFIDENCEin 39 daysThe Secretary of State lists Amendment 3 among the measures "certified for the November 3, 2026 general election"; polls are open 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.^[1]
Missouri voters decide whether to repeal the abortion-rights amendment they passed in 2024 and allow abortion only in emergencies, for fetal anomalies, or for rape and incest before 12 weeks.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
Italy's Parliament Makes Femicide a Crime Punishable by Life in Prison
Palazzo Montecitorio, Via dell'Impresa, Colonna, Municipio Roma I, Rome, Roma Capitale, Lazio, 00187, ItalyChamber of Deputies (Italy)
Starts 11/25/2025 CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE304 days agoUniPD Human Rights Centre: "On November 25, 2025 ... the Chamber of Deputies unanimously gave final approval to the bill introducing the crime of 'feminicide' (A.C. 2528)".^[1]
On 25 November 2025 Italy's Chamber of Deputies unanimously gave final approval to a law making femicide a crime of its own, article 577-bis of the Criminal Code, punished with life imprisonment.
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Law09/25/2026@LawDesk
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Mifepristone in FDA v. Alliance
Supreme Court of the United States, 1, 1st Street Northeast, Ward 6, Washington, District of Columbia, 20543, United StatesSupreme Court of the United States
Starts 06/13/2024 CONFIRMED 84% CONFIDENCE2.3 years agoThe slip opinion in No. 23-235 is headed "Argued March 26, 2024—Decided June 13, 2024".^[1]
A unanimous Supreme Court threw out anti-abortion doctors' challenge to the FDA's rules for the abortion pill mifepristone, holding they had no standing to sue, so mail and telehealth access stayed in place.
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Law09/25/2026@WomenDesk
Taliban Publish a Vice-and-Virtue Law Silencing Women in Public
Ministry of Justice, NH0104;NH08, 2nd District, Kabul, Kabul District, Kabul Province, 1001, AfghanistanTaliban
Starts 08/21/2024 CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoCentre for Information Resilience: "On 21 August 2024, the Taliban's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced the publication of the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (PVPV) Law in the Ministry's Official Gazette"; the law has no sunset.^[1]
The Taliban's Ministry of Justice published the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law on 21 August 2024: 35 articles that make women cover their faces and bodies, bar their voices from being heard in public and stop them travelling without a male guardian.
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Elections09/25/2026@PoliticsDesk
Missouri Voters Pass Amendment 3, Restoring Abortion Rights
Missouri State Capitol, 201, West Capitol Avenue, Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, 65101, United States
Starts 11/05/2024 12:00PM CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE1.9 years agoThe Secretary of State's official results are for the "General Election - November 5, 2024", and its election-day page says "Polling places open at 6:00 a.m. and remain open until 7:00 p.m."^[1]
Missouri voters approved Amendment 3 by 1,538,659 votes to 1,443,022, writing a right to reproductive freedom, including abortion up to fetal viability, into the state constitution and overturning the state's near-total ban.
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Law09/25/2026@LawDesk
Fifth Circuit Reinstates In-Person Dispensing for Mifepristone
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, 600, Camp Street, Central Business District, French Quarter, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, 70130, United StatesUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Starts 05/01/2026 CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE147 days agoThe opinion in No. 26-30203 is stamped "FILED May 1, 2026" and orders that "the motion to stay the 2023 REMS under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending appeal is GRANTED".^[1]
A Fifth Circuit panel granted Louisiana a stay of the FDA's 2023 mifepristone rules, ending telehealth prescribing and mail or pharmacy dispensing of the abortion pill nationwide until the Supreme Court stepped in.
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Policy09/25/2026@WomenDesk
EU Signs the Women on Boards Directive Setting a 40% Board Target
Bâtiment Louise-Weiss, 1, Allée du Printemps, Wacken, Robertsau, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Collectivité européenne d'Alsace, Grand Est, France métropolitaine, 67070, FranceEuropean Union
11/23/2022 - 12/31/2038 CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE3.8 years agoThe Publications Office record is "Directive (EU) 2022/2381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022", the text ends "Done at Strasbourg, 23 November 2022", and Article 14 says "It shall expire on 31 December 2038", so the period ends at the exclusive 1 January 2039 boundary.^[1]
Roberta Metsola and the Council presidency sign Directive (EU) 2022/2381 in Strasbourg, requiring large EU listed companies to have at least 40% of non-executive seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex by 30 June 2026.
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