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Demand for abortion and post abortion care in Ibadan, Nigeria [PDF]
, 2014 Background: While induced abortion is considered to be illegal and socially unacceptable in Nigeria, it is still practiced by many women in the country. Poor family planning and unsafe abortion practices have daunting effects on maternal health.
Awoyemi, Bosede O., Novignon, Jacob
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Comment on Véronique Zanetti: On Moral Compromise [PDF]
, 2011 In this article, I criticize Véronique Zanetti on the topic of moral compromise. As I understand Zanetti, a compromise could only be called a “moral compromise” if (i) it does not originate under coercive conditions, (ii) it involves conflict whose ...
Waligore, Timothy
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Are Conscientious Refusal and Conscientious Provision Mutually Exclusive? A Critique of Kelusa and Giubilini's Argument. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT This article challenges the claim that conscientious refusal and conscientious provision in healthcare are mutually exclusive and thus asymmetrical. While US law protects healthcare providers who refuse to perform medical services on moral or religious grounds, it offers no equivalent protections to those who feel morally compelled to provide ...
Ofengenden T.
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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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The Politicization of Abortion and Hippocratic Disobedience in Islamist Sudan [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2019 In Sudan’s Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association with illegal pregnancy. Fornication is a crime against God punishable with 100 lashes, and pregnancy outside a marriage contract constitutes sufficient evidence of a woman’s ...
Liv Tønnessen, Samia Al-Nagar
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Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories [PDF]
BMJ, 2006 O n 9 January 1968 detectives found Mollie Jamieson at the shop where she worked in Melbourne, Australia, and told her bluntly that her 21 year old daughter, Carolyn, was dead. Mollie and her husband were then interrogated for hours over what they knew of their daughter's illegal abortion. But it was the first they knew of it.
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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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F1000Research, 2018 When conducted in a legal setting and under safe conditions, abortion is an extremely effective and safe procedure. Tragically, almost half of all abortions that take place in the world are conducted under unsafe conditions, mostly in countries where ...
Sharon Cameron
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How pro- and anti-abortion activists use encrypted messaging apps in post- America
Big Data & Society, 2023 In a post- Roe America, abortion-rights activists are scrambling to protect reproductive rights. Communication on open social media platforms like Facebook can now be used to prosecute those seeking an illegal abortion in a frightening entanglement of ...
Zelly C Martin +2 more
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Illegal abortion in Addis Ababa Ethiopia
East African Medical Journal, 2001 To identify the primary abortionist while the patient is in the hospital; to determine the type of materials used to terminate the pregnancy; to determine the number of attempts made to terminate the index pregnancy and; to characterise women with induced abortions at five hospitals in the City of Addis Ababa.Cross-sectional hospital-based descriptive ...
Tadesse, E. +6 more
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