In the US, legal abortion is considered extremely safe, and abortion-related mortality is
reported to be far lower than mortality associated with term childbirth. Yet, the voluntary …

Abortion law has developed rapidly during the past two decades and has seemingly
changed course during the past few years. In 1973, Roev. Wade established a constitutional …

Just as nations around the world have begun to revise their laws that restrict women's
access to safe, legal abortions, the United States is moving rapidly in the opposite direction …

Many rich democracies have earlier cutoffs for abortion-but allow it later for a variety of
reasons. And around the world, it has been much more common to expand access than …

Worldwide approximately 50 000 women die of complications from unsafe abortion each
year. It is estimated that a further 5 000 000 women suffer a disability resulting from unsafe …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the safety of abortion compared with childbirth. METHODS: We
estimated mortality rates associated with live births and legal induced abortions in the …

The last several years have witnessed a growing intensity in the debate over abortion in the
United States. Although the issue has never been far from the public eye, with the Supreme …

Unsafe abortion and associated morbidity and mortality in women are completely avoidable.
This paper reports on an analysis of the association between legal grounds for abortion in …

Abortion is the most divisive issue in American society today, but that is not unique because
the issue troubles many other Western countries as well. Acrimonious debate has ensued in …

In 2007, the US Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, also
known as the Federal Abortion Ban or ''the Ban.''The decision undermines decades of …