Healthcare law: outside the supreme court, passions flare over legal battle

This week's hearings may be a dry contest of legal precedent, but there is no shortage of furiously divided opinion outside court

Pro-choice supporters plan first ever protest against anti-abortion activists

Counter-demonstration to be held at British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinic in London targeted by religious groups

The Ashley treatment: ‘Her life is as good as we can possibly make it’

In an exclusive email exchange, Ashley's father talks to Ed Pilkington about his daughter's condition, her growth attenuation treatment – and the criticism his family has faced

Doonesbury strip on Texas abortion law dropped by some US newspapers

Several papers decline to use cartoon strip, which depicts state-required sonograms as Republican-approved rape

Why anti-choice campaigners won’t let science get in their way

Amanda Marcotte: Research claiming a link between abortion and mental illness in women always gets debunked, but do these ideologues care?

Disney cancels plan to open fitness park after obesity ‘bullying’ claims

Habit Heroes shuttered after cries it stigmatized overweight children with villains called Snacker and The Glutton

Virginia’s vagina-violating ultrasound law

Lizz Winstead: Governor McDonnell frets that his ultrasound law violates the US constitution. Let me tell you, Bob, it violates a lot more than that

Women say no to ‘state-sponsored rape’

Should women be forced to endure a vaginal ultrasound before being allowed to have an abortion? Legislators in Virginia think they should but opposition is mounting

Q&A with Naomi Wolf: the breast implant scandal

Naomi Wolf: Even before PIP, there was masses of evidence of silicone implant failure. Why does profit come before women's health?

The silicone breast implant scandal

Naomi Wolf: The US and UK authorities must think women are either stupid or worthless to permit this shameful profiting from their suffering