As countries around the world consider legalizing assisted suicide, strong voices out of the Netherlands warn of a slippery moral and ethical slope. In a Dutch medical journal last month, one of the Netherlands’ most prominent euthanasia providers chronicled how the practice easily went beyond its original limits. A different Dutch ethicist testified before the British Parliament this month that legalizing assisted dying leads to an increase of nonassisted suicides.

President Donald Trump began purging foreign assistance for abortions during his first week in office in 2016. He reinstated the Mexico City policy, which says recipients of about $600 million in international family planning funds cannot refer for or perform abortions. Then he expanded the rule to include all global health assistance by U.S. government departments and agencies, worth $9 billion in grants and cooperative agreements.

The Supreme Court could rule soon on whether abortionists can prescribe chemical abortion pills during the coronavirus pandemic without a medical provider watching over a woman as she takes them. The Department of Justice filed an emergency motion in August asking the Supreme Court to reinstate safety regulations for the distribution of mifepristone, the first drug in the abortion pill regimen.

Ever since free prenatal screening for Down syndrome began in Denmark in 2004, the number of babies with the condition has dropped, with only 18 born last year, according to a new report from the Danish Cytogenetic Central Registry. The Danish National Board of Health said 95 percent of parents who discover a chromosomal abnormality like Down syndrome in their unborn baby choose to abort the child.

Dr. George Delgado was working at his San Diego office in 2009 when he received a call from Terri Palmquist, a pro-life sidewalk counselor in Bakersfield, Calif. Palmquist fielded calls from women across the country facing unplanned pregnancies. She had just spoken with a woman in El Paso, Texas, who had taken mifepristone, the first drug in the abortion pill regimen, and wanted to reverse the process. Palmquist asked Delgado if it could be done.

Sex-selective abortions could lead to 6.8 million fewer girls than needed to achieve a balance between the sexes in India, according to a study tracking projected births between 2017 and 2030 published last month by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in the journal PLOS One.

In the state of Maryland, the Trump administration cannot enforce a rule that keeps taxpayer money from going to abortion, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. The ruling only applies in one state, but it contradicts a decision by the 9th Circuit earlier this year, making it more likely the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually weigh in to settle the dispute.