May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it with a 14-year prison sentence for assisting with a home birth in which the baby later died, reports Tamara Pearson.
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Thousands rallied across Peru for International Safe Abortion Day on September 28, demanding the right to safe, accessible abortions. Hundreds marched through the capital, Lima, under the banner of “The Right to Decide”, reports Ben Radford.