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Zana Mihaljevic needs $17,000 to become a mum.

The 51-year-old founder of the 'Be a Mum' Foundation, which promotes support for women trying to have a child, suffers from hypogonadism, which means her ovaries do not produce enough hormones.

The first successful in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in Slovenia was performed 40 years ago and today about a thousand babies born every year in the country are conceived outside the body. Slovenia is considered to be a global leader in the field.

Marriage equality having been enshrined in law based on a landmark Constitutional Court decision, efforts have now been announced to give single women access to in vitro fertilisation, a fight that has been going on for more than two decades in Slovenia.

Media personality and hotel heiress Paris Hilton announced on Jan. 24 that she and husband Carter Reum had welcomed their first child.

Hilton posted a photo on Instagram of what appeared to be her newborn baby grasping her thumb.

"You are already loved beyond words," Hilton wrote with a blue heart emoji.

Asia has also seen moves in favor of abortion rights

The infographic presents a selection distribution for the characteristics of people that had an abortion in 2019

A leaked document indicates that a vote was held overturning the decision to legalize abortion at national level

The trial of Justyna Wydrzynska, an activist with the Polish women's group Aborcyjny Dream Team (Abortion Dream Team), began on Friday morning in Warsaw. The 47-year-old, a mother of three, has been charged with "assisting in an abortion" and faces up to three years in prison.

The abortion rights battle takes to the streets across America on Oct. 2, with hundreds of demonstrations planned as part of a new "Women's March" aimed at countering an unprecedented conservative offensive to restrict the termination of pregnancies.

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