Knowledge of abortion legality among health facility staff in Ghana.
PLoS ONEBackgroundAbortion has been legal for multiple indications in Ghana since 1985, and efforts have been made to expand the availability of safe abortion care in the years since.
Grace Sheehy +3 more
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Bayesian inference for treatment effects under nested subsets of controls [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 When constructing a model to estimate the causal effect of a treatment, it is necessary to control for other factors which may have confounding effects. Because the ignorability assumption is not testable, however, it is usually unclear which minimal set of controls is appropriate -- as is their appropriate functional form in the model -- and effect ...
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Temporal Analysis of Drifting Hashtags in Textual Data Streams: A Graph-Based Application [PDF]
Expert Systems with Applications, 125007 (2024)Initially supported by Twitter, hashtags are now used on several social media platforms. Hashtags are helpful for tagging, tracking, and grouping posts on similar topics. In this paper, based on a hashtag stream regarding the hashtag #mybodymychoice, we analyze hashtag drifts over time using concepts from graph analysis and textual data streams using ...
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Interrogating medical tourism: Ireland, abortion, and mobility rights [PDF]
, 2013 Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secure an abortion ...
Gilmartin, Mary, White, Allen
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On Finding Yourself in a State of Nature
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2019 I defend the right to an abortion at any stage of pregnancy by drawing on a Kantian account of consent and innate right. I examine how pregnant women are positioned in moral and legal debates about abortion, and develop a Kanitan account of bodily ...
Jordan Pascoe
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Efficient means of Achieving Composability using Object based Conflicts on Transactional Memory [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Composing together the individual atomic methods of concurrent data-structures (cds) pose multiple design and consistency challenges. In this context composition provided by transactions in software transaction memory (STM) can be handy. However, most of the STMs offer read/write primitives to access shared cds.
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Articulating reproductive justice through reparative justice: : case studies of abortion in Great Britain and South Africa [PDF]
, 2016 Public health and rights-based approaches to abortion advocacy are well established. Feminists are, however, increasingly using a broader framework of ‘reproductive justice’, which considers the intersecting conditions that serve to enhance or hinder ...
Beynon-Jones, Sian Maeve +2 more
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Replacing Myths with Facts: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States [PDF]
, 2014 Sex selection is the practice of attempting to control the sex of one's offspring in order to achieve a desired sex. One method of sex selection is sex-selective abortion. Laws banning sex-selective abortion are proliferating in the United States.
Brian Citro +3 more
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Comparing women's financial costs of induced abortion at a facility vs. seeking treatment for complications from unsafe abortion in Zambia. [PDF]
, 2018 Although abortion is legal in Zambia under a variety of broad conditions, unsafe abortion remains common. The purpose of this project was to compare the financial costs for women when they have an induced abortion at a facility, with costs for an induced
Abelson, Anna +6 more
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The Unique Landscape of Abortion Law and Access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2019 Abortion remains a highly debated topic in women’s health in the Middle East and specifically in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT), where it is illegal in most cases. Abortion access is challenging and complex due to laws, hospital policies, and
Sarrah Shahawy
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