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'This Is Real Misery': Experiences of Women Denied Legal Abortion in Tunisia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Barriers to accessing legal abortion services in Tunisia are increasing, despite a liberal abortion law, and women are often denied wanted legal abortion services.
Selma Hajri +4 more
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Abortion safety in Ghana: does motivation matter? [PDF]
BMC Public HealthIntroduction In Ghana, abortion is restricted except on a few legal grounds. About 11% of maternal deaths in Ghana are due to unsafe abortion. This study investigated the association between abortion motivation (the primary reason women sought abortion ...
Jalang Conteh +4 more
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Abortion practices among women in Buéa: a socio-legal investigation
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2019 INTRODUCTION: There are controversies surrounding the practice of abortion especially in developing countries of Africa. Cameroon is not an exception to this and hence this study aims at assessing knowledge on the awareness of abortion laws, the factors ...
Mbuwir Charlotte Bongfen +1 more
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BMC Women's Health, 2019 Background Restrictive abortion laws are the single most important determinant of unsafe abortion, a major, yet preventable, global health issue. While reviews have been conducted on the extent of the phenomenon, no study has so far analysed the evidence
Sonia Chemlal, Giuliano Russo
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Global Abortion Policies Database: a descriptive analysis of the legal categories of lawful abortion
BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2018 Background Texts and interpretations on the lawfulness of abortion and associated administrative requirements can be vague and confusing. It can also be difficult for a woman or provider to know exactly where to look for and how to interpret laws on ...
Antonella F. Lavelanet +3 more
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To be, or not to be, referred: A qualitative study of women from Burma's access to legal abortion care in Thailand. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 BACKGROUND:Reproductive health outcomes among women from Burma who live along the Thailand-Burma border demonstrate an unmet need for access to safe abortion services.
Grady Arnott +3 more
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Evaluation of the reproductive health curriculum at medical schools in Germany: an insight into medical students’ knowledge and opinion towards emergency contraception and abortion - a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public HealthObjectives The legal framework in Germany allows patients to access abortion services only under certain regulations without being legally prosecuted. There is a decline in abortion providers, despite abortion numbers remaining the same.
Cecilia Rees, Andrea Kaifie
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One Year After Dobbs-Vast Changes to the Abortion Legal Landscape.
JAMA Health Forum, 2023 This JAMA Forum discusses state-level abortion restrictions and protections, emergency care, abortion medication, and abortion counseling 1 year after the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade.
Lawrence O. Gostin +2 more
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2023 This paper argues that abortion access is an important subject for bioethics scholarship and reflects on the relationship between legal frameworks and access to care.
E. C. Romanis
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Reproductive Health, 2022 Many components of abortion care in early pregnancy can safely be provided on an outpatient basis by mid-level providers or by pregnant people themselves. Yet, some states impose non-evidence-based provider restrictions, understood as legal or regulatory
Fiona de Londras +5 more
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