Background Unsafe abortions are a serious public health problem and a major human rights
issue. In low-income countries, where restrictive abortion laws are common, safe abortion …

Globally, abortion mortality accounts for at least 13% of all maternal mortality. Unsafe
abortion procedures, untrained abortion providers, restrictive abortion laws and high …

In the first study of the kind, Susan Blackburn examines how Indonesian women have
engaged with the state since they began to organise a century ago. Voices from the …

In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam,
are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization …

Induced abortion is widely practised in Indonesia by both married and unmarried women.
This paper draws on ethnographic research, conducted between 1996 and 1998, which …

Abstract Background This study explored Indonesian adolescents' experiences of
(premarital-conceived) pregnancy and early parenthood. The findings provide insight into …

m Indonesia, where religion is considered an essential component of social life, discussion
of reproductive health inevitably has a theological dimension. This paper focuses on the …

Objectives Equitable and safe access to abortion and contraception is essential to protecting
reproductive autonomy. Despite this, barriers to access remain.“Doulas”, non-clinical …

Policy failure has been a concern for social scientists during the past four decades, yet there
are no clear answers as to why certain policies are not put into practice as intended …

Recognising that women are in an underprivileged position, a women-centred approach
'seeks to bolster the power of women'3 and set in motion a process by which women can …