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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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'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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Public Health Research & Practice, 2021 Introduction: Nine different sets of laws govern abortion in Australia, and the criteria for an abortion to be considered lawful varies considerably by jurisdiction.
Kathryn J LaRoche +2 more
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Abortion and the COVID-19 pandemic: insights for Latin America
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic may accentuate existing problems, hindering access to legal abortion, with a consequent increase in unsafe abortions. This scenario may be even worse in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Latin America, where abortion ...
Flávia Bulegon Pilecco +7 more
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Decidual natural killer cells in recurrent spontaneous abortions [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011 Background/Aim. A repeated or habitual miscarriage (PSP) is defined as three or more consecutive losses of pregnancy. In the first three months of pregnancy, habitual miscarriages occur in about 1% of pregnant women, out of which 50% are of an unknown
Radović-Janošević Dragana +5 more
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Judicial Lawfare: Analysis of Legal Arguments against Abortion Rights in Peruvian Courts
Revista Direito GV, 2021 This article analyzes the puzzling case of Peru, a country highlighted as an example of the internationalization of sexual and reproductive health and rights norms through supranational litigation, but where these legal victories have not prompted an ...
Camila Gianella, Brenda Álvarez
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Women’s demand for late-term abortion: A social or psychiatric issue? [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2014 Introduction/Aim. Induced termination of unwanted pregnancy after 12th gestational week (late-term abortion) is legally restricted in Serbia as well as in many other countries.
Nikolić Gordana +2 more
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Legal and non-legal barriers to abortion in Ireland and the United Kingdom
Medicine Access @ Point of Care, 2021 This article compares abortion laws, regulations and access patterns in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. We focus in most detail on the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and England with a shorter discussion of Scotland and Wales.
Sydney Calkin, Ella Berny
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) forces governments to consider not only how services will be provided – but which services – and to whom, when, where, how and at what cost.
Godfrey Kangaude +2 more
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IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2021 We can find numerous international treaties and legal documents that support women’s choice for safe and legal abortion. However, there are constant different, incompatible and even opposing discourses around abortion globally. This paper examines a 2016
Gao Xueying
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