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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.
Baum, Sarah, Foster, Diana Greene, Gerdts, Caitlin, Hajri, Selma, Raifman, Sarah   +4 more
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Denial of abortion in legal settings [PDF]

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2014
BackgroundFactors such as poverty, stigma, lack of knowledge about the legal status of abortion, and geographical distance from a provider may prevent women from accessing safe abortion services, even where abortion is legal. Data on the consequences of abortion denial outside of the US, however, are scarce.MethodsIn this article we present data from ...
Caitlin Gerdts, Teresa DePiñeres, Selma Hajri, Jane Harries, Altaf Hossain, Mahesh Puri, Divya Vohra, Diana Greene Foster   +7 more
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Expanding access to safe ambulatory manual vacuum aspiration abortion up to 14+6 weeks following Argentina's legal reform: an observational study in the public health sector. [PDF]

Reprod Health
Background In December 2020, Argentina passed Law 27.610, legalizing elective abortion up to 14 + 6 weeks and beyond in cases of rape or health risks. This study aims to analyze the sociodemographic characteristics of users who opted or were referred for
Saavedra-Avendano B, Botta MP, Chaumet D, Macagno B, Ortiz-Avendano GA.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Denial of legal abortion in Nepal [PDF]

PLOS ONE, 2023
Introduction In Nepal, abortion is legal on request through 12 weeks of pregnancy and up to 28 weeks for health and other reasons. Abortion is available at public facilities at no cost and by trained private providers. Yet, over half of abortions are provided outside this legal system.
Mahesh C. Puri, Sarah Raifman, Sara Daniel, Sunita Karki, Dev Chandra Maharjan, Chris Ahlbach, Nadia Diamond-Smith, Diana Greene Foster   +7 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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, Cecilia Anne McCallum, Maria da Conceição Chagas de Almeida, Flávia Jôse Oliveira Alves, Aline dos Santos Rocha, Naiá Ortelan, Lígia Gabrielli, Greice Maria de Souza Menezes   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

“We have to make sure you meet certain criteria”: exploring patient experiences of the criminalisation of abortion in Australia

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, L L Wynn, Angel M Foster   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1999
We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion legalization. The five states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade.
John J. Donohue, John J. Donohue, Steven D. Levitt, Steven D. Levitt, Steven D. Levitt   +4 more
openaire   +6 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

EFFECTS OF LEGAL ABORTION ON GYNAECOLOGY [PDF]

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1972
The effect of the Abortion Act on gynaecological work in one provincial teaching hospital is that despite an increase in patient turnover of 45% the waiting list has increased by 200%. It is suggested that the Act has had little effect on the birth rate or illegitimacy and that there may have been an increase in criminal abortion.
Hackman B, John Ah
openaire   +4 more sources