BMC Women's Health, 2023 Background Induced abortion in Costa Rica is illegal in all cases except to save the life of the pregnant person. Despite severe restrictions to legal abortion, individuals in Costa Rica still induce abortions outside of the formal healthcare system ...
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The Polish Parliament and the making of politics through abortion : nation, gender and democracy in the 1996 Liberalization Amendment Debate [PDF]
, 2009 The collapse of communism across East Central Europe was marked by a renewal of debates around reproduction, with abortion debates surfacing in Romania, Germany and Poland.
Kramer, Anne-Marie Caroline
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Therapeutic abortion in Iran: an epidemiologic study of legal abortion in 2 years
BMC Research Notes, 2020 Objectives Unsafe abortion is one of the most important causes of death and disability among mothers in countries where abortion is illegal. These conditions have changed since then.
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The regulatory cliff edge between contraception and abortion: the legal and moral significance of implantation [PDF]
, 2015 In regulating the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, English law has accorded particular significance to two biological events. First, ‘viability’, the moment when a fetus is said to acquire the capacity for independent life, plays an important role in
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Abortion activism, legal change, and taking feminist law work seriously
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 2020 Abortion laws in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have recently undergone radical reform. This occurred following a 2018 referendum in the Republic and the passing of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 in Northern Ireland.
Mairead Enright +2 more
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Legal abortion in Brazil: systematic review of the scientific production, 2008-2018.
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2020 Previous reviews on the subject of abortion in Brazil have estimated one million procedures per year but did not address legal abortion. This systematic review sought to update knowledge regarding legal abortion in terms of service and women's profile ...
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The legal and medical necessity of abortion care amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2020 In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, states have ordered the cessation of non-essential healthcare. Unfortunately, many conservative states have sought to capitalize on those orders to halt abortion care.
Greer Donley +2 more
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The Decriminalisation of Abortion: an Argument for Modernisation [PDF]
, 2015 While abortion is now offered as a routine part of modern NHS-funded reproductive healthcare, the legal framework regulating it remains rooted in the punitive, conservative values of the mid-Victorian era.
Sheldon, Sally
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Failure of the Law to Grant Access to Legal Abortion in Chile
Health EquityIntroduction: In 2017, Chile decriminalized abortion on three grounds: (i) if the pregnant person's life is at risk, (ii) fetal nonviability, and (iii) rape or incest.
Daniel F.M. Suárez-Baquero +4 more
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'How shall we survive': a qualitative study of women's experiences following denial of menstrual regulation (MR) services in Bangladesh. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundAbout one quarter of women in Bangladesh are denied menstrual regulation (MR) due to advanced gestation [J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 41(3):161-163, 2015, Issues Brief (Alan Guttmacher Inst) (3):1-8, 2012].
Biswas, Kamal Kanti +5 more
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