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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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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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PLoS ONE, 2017 BackgroundReproductive health outcomes among women from Burma who live along the Thailand-Burma border demonstrate an unmet need for access to safe abortion services. In 2014, a multi-national team launched a collaborative three-year initiative to expand
Grady Arnott +3 more
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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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Journal of Adolescent Health, 2023 Background and Objectives: Restrictions on abortion in the United States will have disproportionate and negative impacts on adolescents. Prior to the Supreme Court ruling to overturn federal protection of abortion, we sought to examine adolescents ...
Bianca A. Allison +3 more
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Health Policy, 2023 The World Health Organization (WHO) and international human rights bodies have long urged states to take steps to ensure that 'conscientious objection' does not undermine access to abortion in practice.
Fiona de Londras +5 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
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