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Medico-Legal Aspects of Abortion: Updates of the Literature
Medical archives, 2022 Background: Abortion is an increasingly important issue since it is discussed from multiple points of view including medical, social, religious, and legal aspects.
H. Shakhatreh +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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The impact of criminalisation on abortion-related outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence
BMJ Global Health, 2022 Abortion is criminalised to at least some degree in most countries. International human rights bodies have recognised that criminalisation results in the provision of poor-quality healthcare goods and services, is associated with lack of registration and
Fiona de Londras +5 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 rights beyond the medico-legal paradigm
Global Public Health, 2021 Abortion rights in international law have historically been framed within a medico-legal paradigm, the belief that regulated systems of legal and medical control guarantee safe abortion. However, a growing worldwide practice of self-managed abortion (SMA)
M. Assis, Joanna N. Erdman
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Reproductive Health, 2021 Background The misuse of conscientious objection (CO) is a significant barrier to legal abortion access in many countries, especially in Latin America. We examine the reasons for denial of legal abortion services in Mexico and Bolivia and identify ways ...
S. Küng +4 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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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.
A H, John, B, Hackman
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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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