Can community health workers play a greater role in increasing access to medical abortion services? A qualitative study [PDF]
, 2017 Despite being legally available in India since 1971, barriers to safe and legal abortion remain, and unsafe and/or illegal abortion continues to be a problem.
Ganatra, Bela +4 more
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Support for Abortion Slips: Results From the 2009 Annual Religion and Public Life Survey [PDF]
, 2009 Examines trends in the public's attitudes about keeping abortion legal, imposing restrictions, and reducing the number of abortions, as well as the level of concern over the issue.
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Culture as a discursive resource opposing legal abortion [PDF]
, 2011 The notion of ‘culture’ features in the abortion literature to explicate, first, contestation of the meaning of abortion (as in the ‘culture wars’ about abortion), second, the normalisation of abortion in certain countries (as in ‘abortion culture ...
Luwaca, Pumeza +2 more
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Reproductive HealthBackground Knowledge of the conditions under which abortion is legal is important so that people can advocate for their right to abortion care. Yet minimal research has explored the association between women’s knowledge of abortion legality and the ...
Grace Sheehy +5 more
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Early and Later Abortions: Ethics and Law [PDF]
, 2019 Most abortions occur early in pregnancy. I argue that these abortions, and so most abortions, are not morally wrong and that the best arguments given to think that these abortions are wrong are weak.
Nobis, Nathan
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The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019 Introduction Unsafe abortion is a major contributor to the continued high global maternal mortality and morbidity rates. Legal abortion frameworks and access to sexuality education and contraception have been pointed out as vital to reduce unsafe ...
Astrid Blystad +6 more
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Access to Abortion, Investments in Neonatal Health, and Sex-Selection: Evidence from Nepal [PDF]
I combine fertility histories from the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey with a census of newly introduced legal abortion centers to estimate the impact of reducing the cost of abortion on pregnancy outcomes, gender, and neonatal health.
Christine Valente
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Implementation of legal abortion in Nepal: a model for rapid scale-up of high-quality care
Reproductive Health, 2012 Unsafe abortion's significant contribution to maternal mortality and morbidity was a critical factor leading to liberalization of Nepal's restrictive abortion law in 2002.
Samandari Ghazaleh +4 more
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An Almost Tight RMR Lower Bound for Abortable Test-And-Set [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We prove a lower bound of Omega(log n/loglog n) for the remote memory reference (RMR) complexity of abortable test-and-set (leader election) in the cache-coherent (CC) and the distributed shared memory (DSM) model. This separates the complexities of abortable and non-abortable test-and-set, as the latter has constant RMR complexity (Golab, Hendler ...
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Global estimation of unintended pregnancy and abortion using a Bayesian hierarchical random walk model [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Unintended pregnancy and abortion estimates are needed to inform and motivate investment in global health programmes and policies. Variability in the availability and reliability of data poses challenges for producing estimates. We developed a Bayesian model that simultaneously estimates incidence of unintended pregnancy and abortion for 195 countries ...
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