Legalización versus criminalización, servicios médicos seguros versus clandestinidad,
liberalización versus restricciones conservadoras: el aborto en América Latina presenta un …

Objective Legal restrictions on abortion access impact the safety and timing of abortion.
Women affected by these laws face barriers to safe care that often result in abortion being …

Background: Abortion is an increasingly important issue since it is discussed from multiple
points of view including medical, social, religious, and legal aspects. Abortion is an old topic …

Abortion has historically been ignored in geography. Although bodies and pregnancy have
been increasingly studied since the 1990s, a reticence around abortion remains. In recent …

Objectives. To examine services offered by safe-abortion hotlines in contexts in which
abortion is legally restricted and to document the experiences of women contacting a safe …

Introduction Unsafe abortion past the first trimester disproportionately accounts for the
majority of global abortion-related morbidity and mortality; research that documents the …

During the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency
obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion …

Background Safe and legal abortions are rarely practiced in the public health sector in
Kenya, and rates of maternal mortality and morbidity from unsafe abortion is high. Little is …

Abortion rights in international law have historically been framed within a medico-legal
paradigm, the belief that regulated systems of legal and medical control guarantee safe …

On any given day in Cuernavaca, Cape Town, Quezon City or Calcutta, a woman with an
unwanted pregnancy seeks out misoprostol to have an abortion. She does not visit a doctor …