Abortion is criminalised to at least some degree in most countries. International human rights
bodies have recognised that criminalisation results in the provision of poor-quality …

Public health research and human rights bodies have demonstrated the risks involved with
criminalising abortion services and noted a need for full decriminalisation. Despite this …

Background In 2018, the right to lawful abortion in the Republic of Ireland significantly
expanded, and service provision commenced on 1 January, 2019. Community provision of …

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 …

This paper argues that abortion access is an important subject for bioethics scholarship and
reflects on the relationship between legal frameworks and access to care. The author uses …

This paper argues that the current abortion regulation by Law 194/1978 is an inadequate
basis for the provision of good quality abortion care and must be reformed. First, the paper …

This article focuses on access to abortion in Ireland post-12 weeks gestational age. It
critically examines abortion access under the legislative sections 9, 10 and 11 of the Health …

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 …

This statement summarizes key findings from anthropological and related scholarship on the
harmful consequences of inadequate abortion access, leading the Society for Medical …

Self-managed abortion holds particular promise for revolutionizing people's access to
quality reproductive care in Africa, where the burden of abortion-related mortality is the …