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Extra-legal abortion and post-abortion care knowledge, attitudes, and practices among obstetrician-gynecologist clinicians and medical residents in San José, Costa Rica: a qualitative study [PDF]
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 ...
Blake Erhardt-Ohren +9 more
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Failure of the Law to Grant Access to Legal Abortion in Chile [PDF]
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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Denial of legal abortion in Nepal. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Introduction In Nepal, abortion is legal on request through 12 weeks of pregnancy and up to 28 weeks for health and other reasons. Abortion is available at public facilities at no cost and by trained private providers. Yet, over half of abortions are provided outside this legal system.
Puri MC +7 more
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Gender linked fate explains lower legal abortion support among white married women. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Abortion is uniquely connected to women's experiences yet women's attitudes towards legal abortion vary across the pro-choice/anti-abortion spectrum. Existing research has focused on sociodemographic characteristics to explain women's levels of abortion ...
Leah Ruppanner +3 more
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'This Is Real Misery': Experiences of Women Denied Legal Abortion in Tunisia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Barriers to accessing legal abortion services in Tunisia are increasing, despite a liberal abortion law, and women are often denied wanted legal abortion services.
Selma Hajri +4 more
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Public Health Research & Practice, 2021 Introduction: Nine different sets of laws govern abortion in Australia, and the criteria for an abortion to be considered lawful varies considerably by jurisdiction.
Kathryn J LaRoche +2 more
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Abortion and the COVID-19 pandemic: insights for Latin America
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic may accentuate existing problems, hindering access to legal abortion, with a consequent increase in unsafe abortions. This scenario may be even worse in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Latin America, where abortion ...
Flávia Bulegon Pilecco +7 more
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EFFECTS OF LEGAL ABORTION ON GYNAECOLOGY [PDF]
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1972 The effect of the Abortion Act on gynaecological work in one provincial teaching hospital is that despite an increase in patient turnover of 45% the waiting list has increased by 200%. It is suggested that the Act has had little effect on the birth rate or illegitimacy and that there may have been an increase in criminal abortion.
A H, John, B, Hackman
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Judicial Lawfare: Analysis of Legal Arguments against Abortion Rights in Peruvian Courts
Revista Direito GV, 2021 This article analyzes the puzzling case of Peru, a country highlighted as an example of the internationalization of sexual and reproductive health and rights norms through supranational litigation, but where these legal victories have not prompted an ...
Camila Gianella, Brenda Álvarez
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Legal and non-legal barriers to abortion in Ireland and the United Kingdom
Medicine Access @ Point of Care, 2021 This article compares abortion laws, regulations and access patterns in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. We focus in most detail on the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and England with a shorter discussion of Scotland and Wales.
Sydney Calkin, Ella Berny
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