This chapter reviews the evolving consensus in international human rights law, first
supporting the liberalization of criminal abortion laws to improve access to care and now …

Abstract Background Latin America presently has the world's highest burden of Zika virus,
but there are unexplained differences in national rates of congenital malformations …

This paper proposes the concept of autonomous health movements, drawing on an analysis
of harm reduction in the United States and self-managed abortion globally. Harm reduction …

There is a global trend toward the liberalization of abortion laws driven by women's rights,
public health, and human rights advocates. This trend reflects the recognition of women's …

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 …

Background Although abortion is legal in Thailand for a number of indications, women from
Burma residing in Thailand are rarely able to access safe services. We evaluated the …

Abstract The latest World Health Organization data estimate that the total number of unsafe
abortions globally has increased to 21.6 million in 2008. There is increasing recognition by …

The changing abortion legal and practice landscape in the DRC in recent years calls for a re-
examining of induced abortion experiences. The current study provides population-level …

Since the early 2000s, global networks of feminist activists have provided education about
and support with self-managed abortion to women with unwanted pregnancies in contexts …

Introduction Abortion-related complications are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality
among women in many Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The objective of this …