Legal Abortion?
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Denial of abortion in legal settings
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. METHODS In this article we present data from studies among women seeking legal abort...
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8 M a r c h 2 0 0 3 The Supreme Court did not “invent” legal abortion, much less abortion itself, when it handed down its historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Abortion, both legal and illegal, had long been part of life in America. Indeed, the legal status of abortion has passed through several distinct phases in American history. Generally permitted at the nation’s founding and for several d...
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Barriers to accessing legal abortion services in Tunisia are increasing, despite a liberal abortion law, and women are often denied wanted legal abortion services. In this paper, we seek to explore the reasons for abortion denial and whether these reasons had a legal or medical basis. We also identify barriers women faced in accessing abortion and make recommendations for improved access to qua...
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Background & Aims: Therapeutic abortion refers to the termination of pregnancy before the birth of a fetus to maintain maternal health or fetal diseases. Increased awareness of the medical team and the community about permissible cases of therapeutic abortion can reduce the number of illegal abortions. The purpose of the present research was to determine the frequency of causes of therapeutic a...
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BACKGROUND In Argentina, abortion has been decriminalized under certain circumstances since the enactment of the Penal Code in 1922. Nevertheless, access to abortion under this regulatory framework has been extremely limited in spite of some recent changes. This article reports the findings of the first phase of an operations research study conducted in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina, rega...
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دوره 20 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1961