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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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Neteisėto aborto kriminalizavimas Lietuvoje ir kitose Europos valstybėse
Teisė, 2010 Straipsnyje analizuojama neteisėto aborto sudėtis ir pateikiamas teisinis įvertinimas, taip pat apžvelgiami gyvybės apsaugos koncepcijos ypatumai. Neteisėtas abortas pasižymi dideliu latentiškumu ir nesulaukia didesnio dėmesio baudžiamosios teisės ...
Andžej Čaikovski, Inga Žukovaitė
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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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Legalisation of abortion in a poor-resource setting: nigerian undergraduates' perspectives
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2023 Background: Abortion is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality amongst Nigerian women in a country with restrictive abortion laws. Despite being illegal, abortions are still performed, and about 50% of abortions are performed by untrained ...
Funmito Omolola Fehintola +7 more
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The problem with abortion deserts: Reframing deserts for feminist solidarity
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract With the rise of the far right across the world, feminist scholars and activists have been drawn to the language of “abortion deserts” to describe the decimation of reproductive healthcare services. In this paper we argue that while “abortion deserts” is a rhetorically powerful category, it is too often used uncritically in ways that overlook ...
Chiara Chiavaroli, Cordelia Freeman
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Indian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: Despite being a sensitive and less explored issue, abortion is a major preventable cause of maternal morbidity and mortality affecting millions of women in developing countries. Objectives: The study aimed to determine the occurrence, nature,
Pallabi Dasgupta +3 more
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International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano +3 more
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“#Repealthe8th”: Ireland, Abortion Access and the Movement to Remove the Eighth Amendment
Antropologia, 2018 Abortion is illegal in almost all circumstances in Ireland, permitted only where there is a risk to the life of the woman due to the eighth amendment to the Irish Constitution. While abortion is banned, women living in Ireland do access abortion; they do
Sinéad Kennedy
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Preventing induced abortion among urban poor in Fortaleza, Brazil : is post-abortion counselling effective?. [PDF]
This thesis reports the results of a randomised controlled intervention study carried out between May and November 1993 in a major public hospital in the metropolitan area of Fortaleza City, Ceará, Brazil. The objective was to investigate the impact of
Misago, Chizuru
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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