Laws and Policies Today, 76 percent of the world's people live in countries where induced
abortion is legal, at least for health reasons; and 39 percent reside in nations where abortion …

Laws and Policies Today, 76 percent of the world's people live in countries where induced
abortion is legal, at least for health reasons, including 39 percent who reside in nations …

Context: The legal status of induced abortion helps determine the availability of safe,
affordable abortion services in a country, which in turn influences rates of maternal mortality …

The worldwide trend toward liberalization of abortion laws has continued in the last four
years with changes in Canada, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, the Soviet …

METHODS: The complete texts of new abortion legislation, most often obtained directly from
government Web sites, were reviewed to determine changes. Background information was …

During the past decade abortion laws have been liberalized and services considerably
extended in most Western countries. In these countries women who face an unplanned …

Every day some 150 000 unwanted pregnancies, close to 53 million in a year, are
terminated by induced abortion. One third of these abortions are performed under unsafe …

Every year around 500,000 women are estimated to die from pregnancy-related causes, the
majority in the developing world and many as a consequence of unsafe abortion. Around 25 …

PIP: In Europe, the present abortion situation ranges from the absolute prohibition of
abortion, as laid down in the Constitution of Ireland, to the explicit right of women to decide …

During the middle and later years of the twentieth century, a movement to liberalize laws
governing induced abortion swept the industrialized world and some of the major …