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What Constitutes a “Due” Burden on Women’s Access to Abortion: A Cultural Discourse Analysis of Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2021
We can find numerous international treaties and legal documents that support women’s choice for safe and legal abortion. However, there are constant different, incompatible and even opposing discourses around abortion globally. This paper examines a 2016
Gao Xueying
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The regulatory cliff edge between contraception and abortion: the legal and moral significance of implantation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In regulating the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, English law has accorded particular significance to two biological events. First, ‘viability’, the moment when a fetus is said to acquire the capacity for independent life, plays an important role in
Sheldon, S., Sheldon, Sally
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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
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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
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Knowledge and attitudes towards abortion from health care providers and abortion experts in Zimbabwe: a cross sectional study

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2019
INTRODUCTION : abortion in Zimbabwe is allowed to preserve the physical health of the woman, or in cases of rape, incest, or fetal impairment. Access even under these conditions is difficult and rare.
Mugove Gerald Madziyire   +4 more
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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
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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
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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
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Abortion Legalized. [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1896
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Understanding the barriers to and opportunities for improving access to safe, legal abortion services in Ghana: a policy analysis [PDF]

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Unsafe abortion continues to be a major public health problem in Ghana. It accounts for 22-30% of the maternal mortality in the country. Although Ghana is one of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa with a liberal abortion law, access to safe, legal ...
Aniteye, Patience
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