It was the woman's ninth pregnancy. Serbian Dr. Stojan Adasevic grabbed his forceps, just as he did for the more than 48,000 abortions he performed.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer could have had an impressive career. But he chose something else and ended being hanged. Still, he is read and remembered. The new film about him shows him sovereign and elusive.

Last year in February, the US state of Alabama surprised Europe and the rest of the world.

It’s okay to scrap abortion from the criminal law, some Christians say. But others fundamentally disagree. In Germany, this is not just theory but practice, Wolfgang Stock writes.

People died in the hospital because they could not bribe the doctor to get surgery. Growing up as a teenager in post-communist Romania, I heard many stories about corruption. Bribery scandals were ever-present.