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Failure of the Law to Grant Access to Legal Abortion in Chile [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Equity
Introduction: 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. Su?rez-Baquero   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Gender linked fate explains lower legal abortion support among white married women. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

To be, or not to be, referred: A qualitative study of women from Burma's access to legal abortion care in Thailand. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
BackgroundReproductive health outcomes among women from Burma who live along the Thailand-Burma border demonstrate an unmet need for access to safe abortion services. In 2014, a multi-national team launched a collaborative three-year initiative to expand
Grady Arnott   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Knowledge of the abortion legislation among South African women: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2006
Background In order to ensure that legalized abortion in South Africa improves reproductive health, women must know that abortion is a legal option in the case of unwanted pregnancy.
Myer Landon   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and universal health coverage: a comparative policy and legal analysis of Ethiopia, Malawi and Zambia

open access: yesSexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) forces governments to consider not only how services will be provided – but which services – and to whom, when, where, how and at what cost.
Godfrey Kangaude   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges to the implementation of telemedicine in abortion care for victims of sexual violence in Brazil

open access: yesFrontiers in Global Women's Health, 2022
The article focuses the recent dynamics resulting from state institutions adding more legal and regulatory barriers to abortion care access, particularly against the use of telemedicine for sexual violence victims in Brazil. It presents a case study from
Beatriz Galli, Jina Dillon
doaj   +1 more source

PENYEDIAAN AKSES LEGAL DAN AMAN UNTUK ABORSI DI INDONESIA

open access: yesUIR Law Review
Abortion is regulated internationally especially in the ICCPR, CEDAW and ICESCR. Indonesia also regulates abortion based on Law No. 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code, Law No. 17 of 2023 concerning Health, Government Regulation No.
Nita Ariyani
doaj   +1 more source

Denial of abortion in legal settings [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2014
Background Factors such as poverty, stigma, lack of knowledge about the legal status of abortion, and geographical distance from a provider may prevent women from accessing safe abortion services, even where abortion is legal. Data on the consequences of abortion denial outside of the US, however, are scarce.
Caitlin Gerdts   +7 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Abortion practices among women in Buéa: a socio-legal investigation

open access: yesThe 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
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on women´s care in an abortion situation in Latin America and the Caribbean

open access: yesCadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário, 2023
Objective: to understand the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on aspects of quality of care provided to women in abortion situations in sentinel centers of the CLAP MUSA-Network (a multicenter network with international cooperation with the aim of ...
Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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