While restrictive abortion laws still prevail in most low-and middle-income countries (LMICs),
many countries have reformed their abortion laws, expanding the grounds on which abortion …

Background Increasing access to safe abortion methods is crucial for improving women's
health. Understanding patterns of service use is important for identifying areas for …

This article introduces a political geography of abortion, arguing that abortion access is an
essential but overlooked site where gendered mechanisms of state control are enforced and …

The private use of abortion medication outside of the formal healthcare setting is an
international phenomenon. Despite new and expanding pathways to abortion access, we …

Introduction Service inclusion in a country's health benefit package (HBP) is an important
milestone towards universal health coverage. This study aimed to explore HBP inclusion of …

Background Medical termination of pregnancy (MToP) is a safe and acceptable abortion
option. Depending on country context, MToP can be administered by general practitioners …

Scholarship on abortion travel has examined the places women travel between and why
such journeys are necessary. However, there has been scant attention paid to the journeys …

Following the World Health Organization's (WHO) definition of self-care,* abortion self-care
is the ability of pregnant individuals† to manage their unwanted pregnancies with or without …

Globally, a growing proportion of induced abortions are medical abortions. The procedure
has been hailed as a revolutionary technology, which, according to experts, has the …

Globally, abortion has largely been understood, researched, and regulated within a medico-
legal paradigm. However, self-managed abortion (SMA) questions the centrality of the law …