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Abortion law

Africa

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Self-Managed Abortion in Africa: The Decriminalization Imperative in Regional Human Rights Standards [2023]

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

Albania

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Albania

Americas

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Abortion access in the Americas: a hemispheric and historical approach [2023]

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]

• PLoS ONE
  • "Factors associated with provider unwillingness to perform induced abortion in Argentina: A cross-sectional study in four provinces following the legalization of abortion on request" [2023]

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

Australia

• 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]
  • Abortion: time to clarify Australia's confusing laws [2004]

• NSW Health
  • Framework for Termination of Pregnancy in New South Wales

• 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]

• SA Health
  • Termination of Pregnancy Policy

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]

Belarus

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Belarus

Belgium

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Belgium

Bolivia

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Bolivia

Brazil

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Law n. 22,537/2024 of the State of Goiás, Brazil, on awareness against abortion: a critical analysis [2024]
  • 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]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • FIGO position statement on the recent prohibition of induction of fetal asystole for legal abortions in Brazil [2024]

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

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

• 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]

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]

Costa Rica

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Socio-ecological influences on access to abortion care in Costa Rica: a qualitative analysis of key perspectives from clinical and policy stakeholders [2024]
  • 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

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Expanding access to safe abortion in DRC: charting the path from decriminalisation to accessible care [2023]

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

• Social Politics
  • Devaluing Women's Lives through Law: Familyism Ideologies in Abortion and Violence against Women Laws in El Salvador [2023]

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]

• 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]

• Health Science Reports
  • Abortion beyond a medical issue; women's perception on the current Ethiopian abortion law among reproductive-aged women by 2023, a community-based cross-sectional study [2024]

• International Journal for Equity in Health
  • "We need to confirm at least from two or three": Healthcare workers' discretion as gatekeepers in the context of the Ethiopian abortion law [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Health care providers`attitude and associated factors to safe abortion in Ethiopia, 2023: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• 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

• 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
  • Incidence of Abortion and Provision of Abortion-Related Services in Ghana [2020]

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

• PLoS ONE
  • Knowledge of abortion legality among health facility staff in Ghana [2024]

Ghana, Ivory Coast

• Reproductive Health
  • Exploring women's knowledge of abortion legality and association with source of abortion care using population-based survey data in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana [2024]

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
  • Adolescent abortions in the Covid-19 landscape: Exposing the legal Achilles' heel [2024]
  • 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]

• Indian Journal of Public Health
  • Recent Amendment in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in India: Empowering Women's Health [2024]

• 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
  • Supreme Court of India judgement on abortion as a fundamental right: breaking new ground [2023]
  • 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
  • How to deal with the criterion of severe mental distress for late termination of pregnancy? A scoping literature review and a content analysis of clinical ethics consultations [2025]
  • Controversies and considerations regarding the termination of pregnancy for Foetal Anomalies in Islam [2014]

• BMC Public Health
  • The impact of third-party authorization requirements on abortion-related outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence [2023]

• 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
  • Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide [2022]

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Interpreting International Humanitarian Law to Guarantee Abortion and Other Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Armed Conflict [2024]
  • Toward Human Rights and Evidence-Based Legal Frameworks for (Self-Managed) Abortion [2021]

• International Academy of Perinatal Medicine
  • The IAPM New York 2024 declaration on professional responsibility and abortion [2024]

• 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]

• 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
  • Providers' experiences with abortion care: A scoping review [2024]
  • 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 Public Health
  • The abortion trend after the pronatalist turn of population policies in Iran: a systematic review from 2005 to 2022 [2024]

• 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 Ireland
  • 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]

• Health Care Analysis
  • Choosing to Provide: Early Medical Abortion and Clinician Conscience in Ireland [2024]

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Review of the Safety and Operation of Section 11 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 [2023]

Israel

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

Italy

• La Clinica Terapeutica
  • Comparative Analysis of Legislation on Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy: Italy's position relate to international panorama [2024]

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

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

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Latin American Nations Once Lagged on Abortion Rights: Now Some Present Role Models for the United States [2024]

• 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]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Analysing the context and characteristics of legal abortion and comprehensive post-abortion care among adolescents aged 10-14 in a network of sentinel centres in Latin America: a retrospective cross-sectional study, 2016-2020 [2023]

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]

Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Professional societies of obstetrics and gynecology as agents of change in sexual and reproductive health: FIGO's 10-country safe abortion advocacy project in Africa and Latin America [2024]

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]

• 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]

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Impacts of Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy in Nepal: a qualitative study [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Denial of legal abortion in Nepal [2023]
  • 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

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in the Netherlands

Netherlands, United Kingdom

• Medical Law Review
  • The (mis)use of fetal viability as the determinant of non-criminal abortion in the Netherlands and England and Wales [2023]

New Zealand

• Global Public Health
  • Between reproductive rights and sex selection in New Zealand's abortion reforms: practitioner dilemma in institutionalising 'choice' and 'agency' [2023]

• Health New Zealand
  • Abortion services

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Abortion

Nicaragua

• Wikipedia
  • Abortion in Nicaragua

Nigeria

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

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

Nordic countries

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends over 50 years with liberal abortion laws in the Nordic countries [2024]

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
  • Prevalence of pregnancy termination and associated factors among married women in Papua New Guinea: A nationally representative cross-sectional survey [2024]
  • 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]

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]

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]

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]

Senegal

• Guttmacher Institute
  • 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]

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

• BMC Public Health
  • Knowledge of the abortion law and key legal issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights among recently arrived migrants in Sweden: a cross-sectional survey [2023]

• 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]

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]

Thailand

• BMC Medical Education
  • Knowledge, attitude, and intended practice of abortion among pharmacy students in Thailand after the amendment of the Thai Abortion Law [2023]

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
  • Abortion and Postabortion Care in Uganda [2017]
  • The Individual- and Household-Level Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda [2014]
  • Unintended Pregnancy and 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
  • Guidance documents for abortions in England and Wales
  • Abortion: procedures for approval of independent providers
  • Abortion

• 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
  • Thorny entanglements: feminism, eugenics and the Abortion Law Reform Association's (ALRA) campaign for safe, accessible abortion in Britain, 1936-1967 [2024]
  • “A Fifth Freedom” or “Hideous Atheistic Expediency”? The Medical Community and Abortion Law Reform in Scotland, c.1960–1975 [2006]

• Medical Law Review
  • 'Border Country': health law in a devolved UK [2024]
  • 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
  • Beyond the Tram Lines: Disability Discrimination, Reproductive Rights and Anachronistic Abortion Law [2023]
  • The Decriminalisation of Abortion: An Argument for Modernisation [2016]

• Royal College of Midwives
  • Abortion position statement [2023]

• 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]

• Scottish Government
  • Abortion services: Safe Access Zones [2024]

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
  • Can Medical-Legal Partnerships Do More to Advance Reproductive Justice After Dobbs? [2024]
  • 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 [2025]
  • ACOG Committee Statement No. 13: Self-Managed Abortion [2024]
  • 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 Preventive Medicine
  • Forced Birth and No Time off Work: Abortion Access and Paid Family Leave Policies [2023]

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Understanding the Post- Dobbs Landscape for Abortion Care in the United States [2024]
  • Post- Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind [2024]
  • Incarceration Status Among Individuals Obtaining Abortion in the United States, 2020 [2023]
  • The Importance of Physician Concern and Expertise in Increasing Abortion Health Care Access in Local Contexts [2021]

• American Psychological Association
  • Abortion Resolutions

• American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • ASCO Ethical Guidance for the US Oncology Community Where Reproductive Health Care Is Limited by Law [2023]

• Annals of Family Medicine
  • Impact of State Abortion Policies on Family Medicine Practice and Training After Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization [2024]

• Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Why Hospitals Must Provide Abortions in Pregnancy Emergencies [2024]

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
  • Contraception and Abortion [2024]

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

• BMC Medical Ethics
  • Moral distress among maternal-fetal medicine fellows: a national survey study [2025]

• 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

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Severely Restricting Abortion Threatens Equitable Health Outcomes for People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus [2023]

• Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Implications of Antiabortion Laws on Patients with Kidney Disease in Pregnancy [2023]

• Contraception
  • Money and place: Quantifying the types of obstacles associated with seeking an abortion after 10 weeks' gestation, 2019-2020 [2024]
  • An estimate of lifetime incidence of abortion in the United States using the 2021-2022 Abortion Patient Survey [2024]
  • State restrictions on abortion are associated with fewer abortions in patients with high-risk cardiovascular conditions [2023]
  • "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]

• Current Oncology
  • Cancer and Pregnancy in the Post-Roe v. Wade Era: A Comprehensive Review [2023]

• 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]

• Feminist Theory
  • Drafting injustice: overturning Roe v. Wade, spillover effects and reproductive rights in context [2024]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • The impact of hostile abortion legislation on the United States maternal mortality crisis: a call for increased abortion education [2023]
  • Renewed calls for abortion-related research in the post-Roe era [2023]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • An Overview of Abortion Laws [2023]
  • State Facts About Abortion [2019]
  • United States Pregnancy
  • United States Abortion

• Gynecologic Oncology
  • Impact of limiting reproductive rights of pregnant individuals with cancer in the United States [2024]

• Hastings Center Report
  • Legal Discrepancies and Expectations of Women: Abortion, Fetal Therapy, and NICU Care [2023]

• Health Affairs
  • Abortion Restrictions Threaten Miscarriage Management In The United States [2024]

• Health and Human Rights Journal
  • Their Body, Our Choice: Organized Medicine's Responsibility to De-medicalize Abortion [2024]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Characteristics and Circumstances of Adolescents Obtaining Abortions in the United States [2024]

• JACC: Heart Failure
  • Pregnancy in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Impact of Overturn of Roe v Wade Ruling [2023]

• JAMA
  • Travel Time and Costs for Abortion for Military Service Members After the Dobbs Decision [2024]
  • Provision of Medications for Self-Managed Abortion Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision [2024]
  • 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]
  • One Year After Dobbs-Vast Changes to the Abortion Legal Landscape [2023]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Use of Oral and Emergency Contraceptives After the US Supreme Court's Dobbs Decision [2024]
  • Trends in Maternal Death Post-Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health [2024]
  • State Abortion Policy and Moral Distress Among Clinicians Providing Abortion After the Dobbs Decision [2024]
  • Self-Managed Abortion Attempts Before vs After Changes in Federal Abortion Protections in the US [2024]
  • Online Medication Abortion Direct-to-Patient Fulfillment Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Decision [2024]
  • Mental Distress Among Female Individuals of Reproductive Age and Reported Barriers to Legal Abortion Following the US Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade [2023]
  • 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]

• Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Virtual Clinic Telehealth Abortion Services in the United States One Year After Dobbs: Landscape Review [2024]

• Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
  • The Potential Impact of Decreasing Access to Abortion on Pregnant Teenagers with Cancer in the United States [2024]

• Journal of Perinatal Medicine
  • The importance of professional responsibility and fetal viability in the management of abortion [2024]

• Journal of Perinatology
  • The patient/physician relationship in a post-Roe world: a neonatologist viewpoint [2023]

• Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment
  • Women with substance use disorders are highly impacted by the overturning of Roe v. Wade: Advocacy steps are urgently needed [2023]

• Milbank Quarterly
  • Abortion Policy in the United States: The New Legal Landscape and Its Threats to Health and Socioeconomic Well-Being [2023]

• 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]

• PLoS ONE
  • Public health and clinical implications of Dobbs v. Jackson for patients and healthcare providers: A scoping review [2024]

• Psychology of Women Quarterly
  • Protect and Control: Coverture's Logics Across Welfare Policy and Abortion Law [2023]

• Public Health
  • The impact of abortion bans on short-term housing needs [2024]

• Science
  • Ethical research when abortion access is legally restricted [2023]

• Science Advances
  • The impact of abortion restrictions on American mental health [2024]

• 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
  • Support for criminalization of self-managed abortion (SMA): A national representative survey [2024]
  • "Technically an abortion": Understanding perceptions and definitions of abortion in the United States [2023]
  • 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 Position Statement: Access to abortion care [2024]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: A critical examination of abortion terminology as it relates to access and quality of care [2023]

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

• SSM - Population Health
  • The association between reproductive rights and access to abortion services and mental health among US women [2023]

• Women's Health
  • Judicial bypass for minors post- Dobbs [2023]

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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