Porter has pushed for heartbeat bills on the state level and aided in crafting the first heartbeat bills in Ohio. Heartbeat bills have been introduced and fizzled out in such conservative strongholds as Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Texas and Wyoming. Roe prohibits laws that ban abortion wholesale before the fetus is viable, at around 24 weeks. The measure is modeled after legislation that failed in Ohio that aimed to ban abortions from as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Now, he`s making it happen | Lucia Graves Read more?The heartbeat bill is the first step to ?make America safe again? for every child whose heartbeat can be heard,? said Porter, who helped design the bill.

Media caption Could US overseas abortion funding ban lead to more deaths in Africa? Donald Trump`s pro-abortion funding ban has infuriated many global health organisations as they say it will unintentionally lead to more abortions and more deaths in Africa. The policy blocks US funding to overseas organisations that "support or participate in the management of a programme of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilisation". Abortion on demand can only be offered in four out of 54 African countries, according to the UN`s World Abortion Policies report. Known as the "Mexico City Policy", or global gag rule by critics, it was no surprise that he reinstated it.

In November 2016, the Colombian government and the Farc rebel group announced a second peace agreement after an initial deal was rejected. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Colombian authorities say abortions were carried out on women fighters with no medicationSpain has agreed to extradite to Colombia a former Farc rebel accused of carrying out 300 forced abortions on women fighters, some of them underage. His arrest in 2015 formed part of an investigation relating to 150 cases involving former Farc fighters who said they had been forced to terminate their pregnancies. Image copyright Reuters Image caption At their height, the Farc was estimated to have some 20,000 active fightersThe Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc, after the initials in Spanish) are Colombia`s largest rebel group. Known as "The Nurse", Mr Arboleda Buitrago is accused of taking part in most of those abortions.