BACKGROUND Aspects of U.S. clinical abortion service provision such as gestational age limits, charges for abortion services, and anti-abortion harassment can impact the accessibility of abortion; this study documents changes in these measures between 2008 and 2012. METHODS In 2012 and 2013, we surveyed all known abortion-providing facilities in the United States (n = 1,720). This study summa...

The high morbidity and mortality rate due to illegal abortions in South Africa necessitated the implementation of abortion legislation in February 1997. Abortion legislation stipulates that registered nurses who had undergone the proposed abortion care training--certified nurses--may carry out abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Currently it seems that an inadequate number of nurs...

Abortion is forbidden under normal circumstances by nearly all the major world religions. Traditionally, abortion was not deemed permissible by Muslim scholars. Shiite scholars considered it forbidden after implantation of the fertilised ovum. However, Sunni scholars have held various opinions on the matter, but all agreed that after 4 months gestation abortion was not permitted. In addition, c...

CONTEXT Women's lack of access to legal abortion is a major contributing factor to high rates of worldwide maternal mortality and morbidity. This article describes changes in the legal status of abortion in countries around the world since 1998. METHODS The complete texts of new abortion legislation, most often obtained directly from government Web sites, were reviewed to determine changes. B...

BACKGROUND High risk for additional unintended pregnancies among abortion patients makes the abortion care setting an ideal one for facilitating access to contraception. This study documents attitudes of abortion patients about contraceptive services during their receipt of abortion services and identifies patient characteristics associated with desire for contraception and interest in using a ...

Few social issues in the U.S. are as contentious as the legal status of induced abortion. Thirty years after the Supreme Court declared state laws restricting abortion unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade, 93 S.Ct. 705, poll results suggest that the U.S. population is almost evenly split over whether the next nominee to the Supreme Court should support or oppose legal abortion in most or all context...

Based on recently published research findings on abortion rates, this paper re-examines original ethnographic data on abortion in order to open a discussion on the dissemination of abortion, its possible cultural configurations and its social legitimacy among low-income populations in Brazil. It refers retrospectively to two works of empirical research studies and presents an estimate of the pr...

BACKGROUND To describe the impact of the post-abortion family planning counseling in bringing about the contraceptive usage in women who had induced abortion in a family planning clinic. METHOD The Diyarbakir Office of Turkish Family Planning Association (DTFPA) is a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization which runs a family planning clinic to serve the lower socio-economic populations, i...

BACKGROUND Abortion is restricted in Uganda, and poor access to contraceptive methods result in unwanted pregnancies. This leaves women no other choice than unsafe abortion, thus placing a great burden on the Ugandan health system and making unsafe abortion one of the major contributors to maternal mortality and morbidity in Uganda. The existing sexual and reproductive health policy in Uganda s...

The ethics of abortion considers whether is immoral. Pro-choice philosophers think that it not immoral, while pro-life is. axiology world would be better if the pro-choice or position right. While much attention has been given to abortion, there no abortion. In this article, I seek change that. consider various arguments for thinking our correct, ultimately concluding This unfortunate, however,...