The Food and Drug Administration has announced that the "morning after pill" will now be available without prescription to women 17 years old and over.

Latinas are more likely to avoid doctors and use risky methods to induce abortions, including mixing prescription drugs and throwing themselves down stairs, according to two studies in a New York Times report.

Hispanic women are three times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than whites. They are also three times more likely to have an abortion although the U.S. abortion rate is at a 30-year low

A year after abortion was legalized in Mexico, many are still finding it difficult to get access to the procedure. Over 80 percent of the doctors in the city have become "conscientious objectors" and will not perform the procedure, while some hospitals have added "unnecessary" fees and rules to delay the process.

The California Supreme Court has ruled that doctors are not allowed to discriminate against gay patients on the basis of religious beliefs. The ruling comes after two Christian doctors refused to artificially inseminate 36-year-old Guadalupe Benitez – a lesbian – who was undergoing fertility treatments.