Obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, sexual and reproductive health

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Abortion law

Africa

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Facts on Abortion in Africa [2016]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Livingstone Safe Abortion Care Charter [2023]

Albania

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Albania

Andorra

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Andorra

Argentina

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Regulating Conscientious Objection to Legal Abortion in Argentina [2020]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • FIGO Statement: Legalisation of Abortion in Argentina [2021]

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • A replication of the Uruguayan model in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a public policy for reducing abortion-related maternal mortality [2016]

• Revista de Saúde Pública
  • Characterizing two models for abortion care in Argentina pre-Law 27.610: 2016-2019 [2023]

Asia

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Facts on Abortion in Asia [2016]

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • The abortion debate in Australia [2006]
  • Abortion and the law in Australia [2006]

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Medical abortion [2020]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Towards comprehensive early abortion service delivery in high income countries: insights for improving universal access to abortion in Australia [2016]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate [2008]
  • Late-term abortion: what can be learned from Royal Women's Hospital v Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria? [2007]
  • Abortion: time to clarify Australia's confusing laws [2004]

• O&G Magazine
  • Online access to mifepristone and misoprostol [2018]
  • In reproductive health, is it unconscionable to object? [2018]

• Public Health Research and Practice
  • "We have to make sure you meet certain criteria": exploring patient experiences of the criminalisation of abortion in Australia [2021]

Australia, New Zealand

• O&G Magazine
  • The unfinished business of abortion law reform [2018]

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Late Abortion [2019]
  • Abortion [2019]

Austria

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Austria

Bangladesh

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Menstrual Regulation and Unsafe Abortion in Bangladesh [2017]
  • Menstrual Regulation, Unsafe Abortion And Maternal Health in Bangladesh [2012]

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Task-sharing in menstrual regulation services: Implementation efforts and lessons learned in Bangladesh [2020]

• International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • The Incidence of Menstrual Regulation Procedures And Abortion in Bangladesh, 2010 [2012]

Belarus

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Belarus

Belgium

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Belgium

Bolivia

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Bolivia

Brazil

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Pro-abortion rights narratives in Brazil, 1976 to 2016 [2020]
  • Legal abortion in Brazil: systematic review of the scientific production, 2008-2018 [2020]
  • Abortion in Brazil: what do the official data say? [2020]

• Journal of Law and the Biosciences
  • In the name of public health: misoprostol and the new criminalization of abortion in Brazil [2021]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Brazil

Burkina Faso

• Global Public Health
  • The politics of unsafe abortion in Burkina Faso: The interface of local norms and global public health practice [2014]

• Obstetrics and Gynecology International
  • Social Determinants and Access to Induced Abortion in Burkina Faso: From Two Case Studies [2014]

Cameroon

• BMC Women's Health
  • Eliminating the high abortion related complications and deaths in Cameroon: the restrictive legal atmosphere on abortions is no acceptable excuse [2018]

Canada

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Medication Abortion in Canada: A Right-to-Health Perspective [2008]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Therapeutic abortion counseling and provision: Are Canadian family physicians opting out? [2016]

• CMAJ
  • Medical abortion in Canada: behind the times [2014]

• Government of Canada
  • Abortion: constitutional and legal developments (89-10E) [1998]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
  • A History of Abortion in Canada: The Quest for Women's Reproductive Rights [2019]

Central America and the Caribbean

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Contribution of the Central American and Caribbean obstetrics and gynecology societies to the prevention of unsafe abortion in the region [2014]

Chile

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Abortion in Chile: The Long Road to Legalization and its Slow Implementation [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • Women's Education Level, Maternal Health Facilities, Abortion Legislation and Maternal Deaths: A Natural Experiment in Chile from 1957 to 2007 [2012]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • The misrepresentation of conscientious objection as a new strategy of resistance to abortion decriminalisation [2019]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Chile

China

• Reproductive Health
  • Illegal births and legal abortions - the case of China [2005]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in China

Colombia

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • The production of expert knowledge as a key tool in the implementation of legal abortion in Colombia [2020]

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Eliminating Abortion from Criminal Law in Colombia: A Just Cause [2019]

• International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • The Cost of Postabortion Care and Legal Abortion In Colombia [2013]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Colombia

Costa Rica

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Reflections from an abortion policy conference in Costa Rica, October 2022 [2023]

Cyprus

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Cyprus

Czech Republic

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in the Czech Republic

Denmark

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Denmark

Dominican Republic

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in the Dominican Republic

East Africa, Latin America

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Preventing State Harassment of Abortion Providers [2019]

Ecuador

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Ecuador

El Salvador

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Patient Privacy and Conflicting Legal and Ethical Obligations in El Salvador: Reporting of Unlawful Abortions [2006]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in El Salvador

Estonia

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Estonia

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Determinants of first and second trimester induced abortion - results from a cross-sectional study taken place 7 years after abortion law revisions in Ethiopia [2014]

• Contraception: X
  • Regional and residential disparities in knowledge of abortion legality and availability of facility-based abortion services in Ethiopia [2021]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Induced Abortion and Postabortion Care in Ethiopia [2017]

• Health Policy and Planning
  • What is the relationship between contraceptive services and knowledge of abortion availability and legality? Evidence from a national sample of women and facilities in Ethiopia [2023]

• Reproductive Health
  • Liberalizing abortion to reduce maternal mortality: expanding access to all Ethiopians [2022]
  • Awareness of female students attending higher educational institutions toward legalization of safe abortion and associated factors, Harari Region, Eastern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study [2015]

Europe

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Gestational age limits for abortion and cross-border reproductive care in Europe: a mixed-methods study [2021]

• Human Resources for Health
  • Accommodating conscientious objection in the midwifery workforce: a ratio-data analysis of midwives, birth and late abortions in 18 European countries in 2016 [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Divergent Trends in Abortion and Birth Control Practices in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine [2012]

Finland

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Finland

France

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in France

Gambia

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • The Gambia's Political Transition to Democracy: Is Abortion Reform Possible? [2019]

Germany

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Germany

Ghana

• African Journal of Reproductive Health
  • Abortion care in Ghana: A critical review of the literature [2014]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Stigmatized by association: challenges for abortion service providers in Ghana [2016]

• Ghana Medical Journal
  • Overview of the Law and Availability of Abortion Services in Ghana [2006]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion in Ghana [2013]

• Health Policy and Planning
  • The impact of Ghana’s R3M programme on the provision of safe abortions and postabortion care [2014]

Greece

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Greece

Guatemala

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Guatemala

Guyana

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Guyana

High-income countries

• PLoS ONE
  • Abortion care pathways and service provision for adolescents in high-income countries: A qualitative synthesis of the evidence [2020]

Hungary

• PLoS ONE
  • The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes [2021]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Hungary

Iceland

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Iceland

India

• Global Health Action
  • The importance of considering the evidence in the MTP 2014 Amendment debate in India – unsubstantiated arguments should not impede improved access to safe abortion [2015]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion in India: A Literature Review [2014]

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Denial of Safe Abortion to Survivors of Rape in India [2019]

• Indian Journal of Community Medicine
  • Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment Bill, 2021): Is it Enough for Indian Women Regarding Comprehensive Abortion Care?? [2021]

• Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
  • The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021: A step towards liberation [2021]
  • Conflicting abortion laws in India: Unintended barriers to safe abortion for adolescent girls [2019]

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Adapting the WHO recommendations on health worker roles for safe abortion to a country setting: A case study from India [2020]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • The case for the use of telehealth for abortion in India [2021]
  • The MTP 2020 Amendment Bill: anti-rights subjectivity [2020]

Indonesia

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion in Indonesia [2008]

International

• American Journal of Public Health
  • International developments in abortion law from 1988 to 1998 [1999]

• Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Global Abortion Policies Database: A descriptive analysis of the regulatory and policy environment related to abortion [2019]

• BMC International Health and Human Rights
  • Global Abortion Policies Database: a descriptive analysis of the legal categories of lawful abortion [2018]

• BMC Medical Ethics
  • Controversies and considerations regarding the termination of pregnancy for Foetal Anomalies in Islam [2014]

• BMJ Global Health
  • A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries [2023]
  • Integrating rights and evidence: a technical advance in abortion guideline development [2021]
  • Identifying data for the empirical assessment of law (IDEAL): a realist approach to research gaps on the health effects of abortion law [2021]
  • The magnitude and severity of abortion-related morbidity in settings with limited access to abortion services: a systematic review and meta-regression [2018]

• Contraception
  • Access to safe abortion: progress and challenges since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) [2014]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide [2016]

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Toward Human Rights and Evidence-Based Legal Frameworks for (Self-Managed) Abortion [2021]

• International Family Planning Perspectives
  • Developments in Laws on Induced Abortion: 1998–2007 [2008]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Supporting access to safe abortion in conflict and humanitarian settings [2023]
  • FIGO Calls for the Total Decriminalisation of Safe Abortion [2022]
  • Improving Access to Abortion Beyond 12 Weeks of Pregnancy [2021]
  • Addressing Barriers to Safe Abortion [2021]
  • Ethical Responsibilities in Post-abortion care [2019]

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Mandatory Waiting Periods Before Abortion and Sterilization: Theory and Practice [2020]

• International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Legal Abortion Levels and Trends By Woman’s Age at Termination [2012]
  • Legal Abortion Worldwide in 2008: Levels and Recent Trends [2011]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Unintended pregnancy and abortion by income, region, and the legal status of abortion: estimates from a comprehensive model for 1990–2019 [2020]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Implementing and expanding safe abortion care: an international comparative case study of six countries [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • The microeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the economic consequences for abortion care-seekers [2021]
  • The macroeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the costs and outcomes [2021]
  • The mesoeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the economic effects of abortion on health systems [2020]
  • Women’s Awareness and Knowledge of Abortion Laws: A Systematic Review [2016]

• Reproductive Health
  • Access to abortion under the health exception: a comparative analysis in three countries [2018]
  • Reductions in Abortion-Related Mortality following Policy Reform: Evidence from Romania, South Africa and Bangladesh [2011]

• Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Healthcare professionals and students' knowledge on termination of pregnancy legislation and clinical practice: A systematic review [2022]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Policy surveillance for a global analysis of national abortion laws [2022]
  • Self-managed abortion: a constellation of actors, a cacophony of laws? [2021]
  • Abortion hotlines around the world: a mixed-methods systematic and descriptive review [2021]
  • Criminalisation under scrutiny: how constitutional courts are changing their narrative by using public health evidence in abortion cases [2019]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion law
  • Abortion by country

• Women's Health
  • Institutional objection to abortion: A mixed-methods narrative review [2023]

Iran

• BMC Research Notes
  • Therapeutic abortion in Iran: an epidemiologic study of legal abortion in 2 years [2020]

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Characteristics of women applying for a legal abortion in the Islamic Republic of Iran [2018]

• Journal of Medical Ethics
  • Therapeutic abortion in Islam: contemporary views of Muslim Shiite scholars and effect of recent Iranian legislation [2006]

Ireland

• BJGP Open
  • Knowledge and attitudes of Irish GPs towards abortion following its legalisation: a cross-sectional study [2019]

• Department of Health
  • Policy Paper on Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy [2018]
  • General Scheme of a Bill to Regulate Termination of Pregnancy [2018]

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • From the Grassroots to the Oireachtas: Abortion Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland [2019]

Israel

• Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
  • Politics of reproduction: a view from Israel on the Dobbs decision [2023]

Italy

• Medicina
  • Is the Right to Abortion at Risk in Times of COVID-19? The Italian State of Affairs within the European Context [2021]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Italy

Japan

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Japan

Kenya

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • The estimated incidence of induced abortion in Kenya: a cross-sectional study [2015]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in Kenya [2012]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • ‘High profile health facilities can add to your trouble’: Women, stigma and un/safe abortion in Kenya [2015]

Latin America

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Challenges and opportunities for access to legal and safe abortion in Latin America based on the scenarios in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay [2020]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Human rights and the right to abortion in Latin America [2014]

• Reproductive Health
  • Latin American women’s experiences with medical abortion in settings where abortion is legally restricted [2012]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Facts on Abortion in Latin America And the Caribbean [2016]

Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Women's Health
  • How, when and where? A systematic review on abortion decision making in legally restricted settings in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean [2022]

Low and middle income countries

• Globalization and Health
  • Systematic review of early abortion services in low- and middle-income country primary care: potential for reverse innovation and application in the UK context [2020]

• Reproductive Health
  • Disclosure to social network members among abortion-seeking women in low- and middle-income countries with restrictive access: a systematic review [2021]

Malawi

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion and Postabortion Care in Malawi [2017]

Malta

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Accessing abortion in a highly restrictive legal regime: characteristics of women and pregnant people in Malta self-managing their abortion through online telemedicine [2023]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Abortion in the time of COVID-19: perspectives from Malta [2020]

Mexico

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City: The effects on women's reproductive rights [2013]

• BMJ Open
  • Abortion legislation, maternal healthcare, fertility, female literacy, sanitation, violence against women and maternal deaths: a natural experiment in 32 Mexican states [2015]

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Utilisation of second-trimester spontaneous and induced abortion services in public hospitals in Mexico, 2007–2015 [2019]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Facts on Induced Abortion in Mexico [2008]

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Inequalities in access to and quality of abortion services in Mexico: Can task-sharing be an opportunity to increase legal and safe abortion care? [2020]
  • Con la ley y sin la ley/With and without the law: Utilization of abortion services and case fatality in Mexico, 2000–2016 [2019]

• International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Incidence of Induced Abortion by Age and State, Mexico, 2009: New Estimates Using a Modified Methodology [2012]

• Journal of Health Economics
  • Abortion laws and women’s health [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Women's abortion seeking behavior under restrictive abortion laws in Mexico [2019]

Middle East, North Africa

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • The Limits of the Law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa [2019]

Monaco

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Monaco

Morocco

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Non-marital Pregnancies and Unmarried Women’s Search for Illegal Abortion in Morocco [2019]

Namibia

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Namibia

Nepal

• BMC Women's Health
  • “I need to terminate this pregnancy even if it will take my life”: a qualitative study of the effect of being denied legal abortion on women’s lives in Nepal [2015]

• Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
  • Service Provider’s Perspective on Factors Denying Legal Abortion in Nepal [2017]
  • Expanding Safe Abortion Access: Concerted Efforts Needed to Overcome Existing Barriers [2011]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in Nepal [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Factors associated with unsafe abortion practices in Nepal: Pooled analysis of the 2011 and 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys [2019]
  • Effects of Abortion Legalization in Nepal, 2001–2010 [2013]

• Reproductive Health
  • Knowledge on legislation of abortion and experience of abortion among female youth in Nepal: A cross sectional study [2016]
  • Implementation of legal abortion in Nepal: a model for rapid scale-up of high-quality care [2012]

Netherlands

• Global Journal of Health Science
  • Termination of Pregnancy in Curaçao: Need for Improvement of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2012]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in the Netherlands

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Abortion Services Aotearoa New Zealand: Annual Report 2023 [2023]
  • Standard for Abortion Counselling Aotearoa New Zealand [2022]

• O&G Magazine
  • NZ’s abortion law: time for change [2018]

Nicaragua

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Nicaragua

Nigeria

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion in Nigeria [2015]
  • Reducing Unsafe Abortion in Nigeria [2008]

• International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • The Incidence of Abortion in Nigeria [2015]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Unsafe abortion practices and the law in Nigeria: time for change [2020]

Norway

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Norway

OECD countries

• Lancet
  • Safeguarding and teleconsultation for abortion [2021]

Pakistan

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Unsafe Abortion and Postabortion Care In Pakistan [2013]
  • Postabortion Care in Pakistan [2013]
  • Facts on Induced Abortion in Pakistan [2009]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Notes from the field: political norm change for abortion in Pakistan [2019]

Palestine

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • The Unique Landscape of Abortion Law and Access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [2019]

Panama

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Panama

Papua New Guinea

• PLoS ONE
  • Hospital Admission following Induced Abortion in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea – A Descriptive Study [2014]

• Reproductive Health
  • Unsafe abortion requiring hospital admission in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea - a descriptive study of women’s and health care workers’ experiences [2015]

Paraguay

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Paraguay

Peru

• Contraception
  • Exploring the prevalence of abortion and its characteristics in Perú [2023]

• Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
  • Support Systems and Limitations in Therapeutic Abortion Care by the Gynecologist-Obstetrician of Public Hospitals in Peru [2022]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Activist framing of abortion and use for policy change in Peru [2019]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Peru

Philippines

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Unintended Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion in the Philippines: Context and Consequences [2013]
  • Unintended Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion in the Philippines [2013]

Poland

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • The Scales of the European Court of Human Rights: Abortion Restriction in Poland, the European Consensus, and the State's Margin of Appreciation [2021]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Poland

Poland, United Kingdom

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Influence of Abortion Law on the Frequency of Pregnancy Terminations—A Retrospective Comparative Study [2021]

Portugal

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • The woman’s choice for abortion: the experience in Portugal with implementation of the National Network [2020]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Portugal

Republic of Korea

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • The Role of Reproductive Justice Movements in Challenging South Korea’s Abortion Ban [2019]

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Social Consensus is Required for Legal Induced Abortion [2019]

Romania

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Romania

Russia

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Russia

Rwanda

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Rwanda [2013]
  • Abortion in Rwanda [2013]

Saudi Arabia

• Journal of Clinical Neonatology
  • Aborting a Malformed Fetus: A Debatable Issue in Saudi Arabia [2012]

Senegal

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion in Senegal [2015]

• International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Estimates of the Incidence of Induced Abortion And Consequences of Unsafe Abortion in Senegal [2015]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Rewriting abortion: deploying medical records in jurisdictional negotiation over a forbidden practice in Senegal [2014]

Slovakia

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Slovakia

South Africa

• Medical History
  • ‘The Trial the World is Watching’: The 1972 Prosecution of Derk Crichton and James Watts, Abortion, and the Regulation of the Medical Profession in Apartheid South Africa [2014]

• Reproductive Health
  • An exploratory study of what happens to women who are denied abortions in Cape Town, South Africa [2015]
  • Conscientious objection and its impact on abortion service provision in South Africa: a qualitative study [2014]

• South African Family Practice
  • Abortion reforms in South Africa: An overview of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act [2020]

Spain

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Evolution of Legislation and the Incidence of Elective Abortion in Spain: A Retrospective Observational Study (2011-2020) [2022]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Spain

Sub-Saharan Africa

• International Journal for Equity in Health
  • The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia [2019]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Ethical concerns facing abortion researchers in restrictive settings: the need for guidelines [2023]
  • Research priorities to support evidence-informed policies and advocacy for access to safe abortion care in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]

Sudan

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • The Politicization of Abortion and Hippocratic Disobedience in Islamist Sudan [2019]

Suriname

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Suriname

Sweden

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • How task-sharing in abortion care became the norm in Sweden: A case study of historic and current determinants and events [2020]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Sweden

Switzerland

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Switzerland

Tanzania

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Unsafe Abortion in Tanzania: A Review of the Evidence [2013]

• International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania [2019]

Trinidad and Tobago

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • The Right to Abortion in Tunisia after the Revolution of 2011: Legal, Medical, and Social Arrangements as Seen through Seven Abortion Stories [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • ‘This Is Real Misery’: Experiences of Women Denied Legal Abortion in Tunisia [2015]

Turkey

• British Journal of General Practice
  • Abortion in Turkey: women in rural areas and the law [2008]

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Turkey

Uganda

• Guttmacher Institute
  • The Individual- and Household-Level Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda [2017]
  • Abortion and Postabortion Care in Uganda [2017]
  • Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in Uganda [2013]

• International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Documenting the Individual- and Household-Level Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda [2013]

• Reproductive Health
  • The discourses on induced abortion in Ugandan daily newspapers: a discourse analysis [2015]

United Kingdom

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Guidance for doctors on compliance with the Abortion Act
  • Abortion: procedures for approval of independent providers

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Rights-based Claims Made by UK Anti-abortion Activists [2019]

• Journal of Law and the Biosciences
  • Abortion & ‘artificial wombs’: would ‘artificial womb’ technology legally empower non-gestating genetic progenitors to participate in decisions about how to terminate pregnancy in England and Wales? [2021]

• Journal of Medical Ethics
  • The regulatory cliff edge between contraception and abortion: the legal and moral significance of implantation [2015]

• Legislation.gov.uk
  • Abortion Act 1967 [1967]

• Medical History
  • “A Fifth Freedom” or “Hideous Atheistic Expediency”? The Medical Community and Abortion Law Reform in Scotland, c.1960–1975 [2006]

• Medical Law Review
  • The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform [2022]
  • Risks, reasons and rights: the European convention on human rights and English abortion law [2015]

• Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
  • The Decriminalisation of Abortion: An Argument for Modernisation [2016]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion [2011]
  • Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales [2010]

United Kingdom, United States

• Journal of Law and the Biosciences
  • Is ‘viability’ viable? Abortion, conceptual confusion and the law in England and Wales and the United States [2020]
  • COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic [2020]

United States

• AMA Journal of Ethics
  • Fetal Pain Legislation [2014]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • The Adolescent’s Right to Confidential Care When Considering Abortion [2022]

• American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics
  • Access to reproductive options after prenatal diagnosis-patient access and physician responsibilities: an updated position statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) [2020]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Increasing Access to Abortion [2020]
  • Decriminalization of Self-Induced Abortion [2017]

• American College of Physicians
  • Reproductive Health Policy in the United States: An American College of Physicians Policy Brief [2023]

• American Journal of Public Health
  • The Importance of Physician Concern and Expertise in Increasing Abortion Health Care Access in Local Contexts [2021]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Racial/ethnic and educational inequities in restrictive abortion policy variation and adverse birth outcomes in the United States [2021]

• BMC Public Health
  • Approaches, barriers, and facilitators to abortion-related work in U.S. health departments: perspectives of maternal and child heath and family planning professionals [2020]

• Center for Reproductive Rights
  • Abortion

• Contraception
  • "Have you ever wanted or needed an abortion you did not get?" Data from a 2022 nationally representative online survey in the United States [2023]
  • State and federal abortion restrictions increase risk of COVID-19 exposure by mandating unnecessary clinic visits [2020]

• Demography
  • The Impact of Parental Involvement Laws on the Abortion Rate of Minors [2020]
  • The Effect of Anti-Abortion Legislation on Nineteenth Century Fertility [2014]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • State Facts About Abortion [2017]
  • An Overview of Abortion Laws [2017]
  • United States Pregnancy
  • United States Abortion

• JAMA
  • Requests for Self-managed Medication Abortion Provided Using Online Telemedicine in 30 US States Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision [2022]
  • Estimated Travel Time and Spatial Access to Abortion Facilities in the US Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Decision [2022]
  • Protections From Civil Liability in State Abortion Conscience Laws [2019]

• JAMA Health Forum
  • Trends in Abortion- and Contraception-Related Internet Searches After the US Supreme Court Overturned Constitutional Abortion Rights: How Much Do State Laws Matter? [2023]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Association of Highly Restrictive State Abortion Policies With Abortion Rates, 2000-2014 [2020]

• Journal of Law and the Biosciences
  • The legal and medical necessity of abortion care amid the COVID-19 pandemic [2020]
  • How the COVID-19 response is altering the legal and regulatory landscape on abortion [2020]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Access to Abortion: Assessing Patient Sociodemographic and Travel Characteristics [2021]
  • Abortion Waiting Periods and Decision Certainty Among People Searching Online for Abortion Care [2021]
  • Consensus guidelines for facilities performing outpatient procedures: Evidence over ideology [2019]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • " A daily reminder of an ugly incident … ": analysis of debate on rape and incest exceptions in early abortion ban legislation in six states in the southern US [2023]
  • Understanding the role of race in abortion stigma in the United States: a systematic scoping review [2022]
  • Access to later abortion in the United States during COVID-19: challenges and recommendations from providers, advocates, and researchers [2020]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • State abortion policies and Medicaid coverage of abortion are associated with pregnancy outcomes among individuals seeking abortion recruited using Google Ads: A national cohort study [2021]

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  • Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the U.S.: Lack of Adherence to Medical and Ethical Practice Standards: A Joint Position Statement of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology [2019]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: A critical examination of abortion terminology as it relates to access and quality of care [2023]
  • Clinical considerations for management of severe complications when abortion care is restricted [2022]

• Society for Medical Anthropology
  • Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision [2022]

Uruguay

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • The role of medical abortion in the implementation of the law on voluntary termination of pregnancy in Uruguay [2016]
  • From risk and harm reduction to decriminalizing abortion: The Uruguayan model for women’s rights [2016]

Venezuela

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Venezuela

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Towards a supportive law and policy environment for quality abortion care: evidence brief [2022]
  • A global database of abortion laws, policies, health standards and guidelines [2017]
  • Safe abortion: Technical & policy guidance for health systems. Legal and policy considerations - Key messages [2015]
  • Global Abortion Policies Database

WHO South-East Asia Region

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Achievements of the FIGO Initiative for the Prevention of Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences in South-Southeast Asia [2014]

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Policies, programme and services for comprehensive abortion care in South-East Asia Region [2020]
  • Mapping abortion policies, programmes and services in the South-East Asia Region [2013]

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Abortion in the Western Pacific Region - 2017 [2017]

Zambia

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Unsafe Abortion in Zambia [2009]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy [2020]

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