Impacts of COVID-19 on contraceptive and abortion services in low-and middle-income countries: a scoping review

CB Polis, A Biddlecom, S Singh, BA Ushie… - Sexual and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionate effects on people living in low-and middle-
income countries (LMICs), exacerbating weak health systems. We conducted a scoping …

Abortion and the COVID-19 pandemic: insights for Latin America

FB Pilecco, CA McCallum, MCC Almeida… - Cadernos de Saúde …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
The COVID-19 pandemic may accentuate existing problems, hindering access to legal
abortion, with a consequent increase in unsafe abortions. This scenario may be even worse …

Demand for self-managed online telemedicine abortion in eight European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: a regression discontinuity analysis

ARA Aiken, JE Starling, R Gomperts, JG Scott… - BMJ sexual & …, 2021 - srh.bmj.com
Objectives In most European countries, patients seeking medication abortion during the
COVID-19 pandemic are still required to attend healthcare settings in person. We assessed …

Self-managed abortion: a constellation of actors, a cacophony of laws?

L Berro Pizzarossa, R Nandagiri - Sexual and Reproductive Health …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Self-managed abortion (SMA) is not a new phenomenon but occurs across histories 1 and
social and legal contexts, 2 utilising a range of methods. 1 SMA is broadly understood as …

COVID-19 and abortion: making structural violence visible

R Nandagiri, E Coast, J Strong - International Perspectives on Sexual and …, 2020 - JSTOR
COVID-19 has compromised and disrupted sexual and reproductive health (SRH) across
multiple dimensions: individual-level access, health systems functioning, and at the policy …

Abortion rights beyond the medico-legal paradigm

MP Assis, JN Erdman - Global Public Health, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Nurse practitioners on 'the leading edge'of medication abortion care: A feminist qualitative approach

A Carson, ES Cameron, M Paynter… - Journal of advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To explore nurse practitioners' experiences of medication abortion implementation in
Canada and to identify ways to further support the implementation of medication abortion by …

[HTML][HTML] Toward human rights and evidence-based legal frameworks for (self-managed) abortion: a review of the last decade of legal reform

LB Pizzarossa, P Skuster - Health and human rights, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the late 1980s, people have safely self-managed their abortions with medication,
changing the landscape of abortion. This practice continues to evolve and expand and has …

Abortion hotlines around the world: a mixed-methods systematic and descriptive review

RK Gill, A Cleeve, AF Lavelanet - Sexual and reproductive health …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Barriers to access abortion services globally have led to the development of alternative
methods to assist and support women who seek an abortion. One such method is the use of …

Safe abortion in Latin America: a look at abortion accompaniment collectives from the perspective of their activists

EE Atienzo, V Cruz, S Garduño, S Lomelí… - Culture, Health & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade, activists in Latin America have expanded access to safe abortion
through processes of accompaniment. Abortion accompaniment is characterised by activism …