Abortion Law in Other Countries

Not surprisingly, the state of the law varies considerably in different countries. We are indebted to the W.H.O. International Digest of Health Legislation for the information on nine European countries on which these notes are based, and must apologise in advance if our attempts to summarise this have led to any misconceptions. For facilities for studying the Digest we are indebted to the office of the World Federation for Mental Health; information about Sweden was supplied by the Swedish Institute for Cultural Relations.