~ ETWEEN 1955 and 1975 most industrial-ised countries liberalised their abortion laws.
Since then, progress in efforts to legalise abortion elsewhere has slowed almost to a …

It is now twenty years since David Steel's Private Member's Bill became the Abortion Act
1967. That Act provided that in certain circumstances doctors had a defence to the crimes …

An analysis of abortion law reform in all regions of the world in the past 20 years shows that
countries have turned from a concentration upon criminality to a concern with women's …

" Abortion is the dread secret of our society. It has been relegated for so long to the darkest
corners of fear and mythology that an unwritten compact virtually requires that it remain …

Abortion has been a reality in women's lives since the beginning of recorded history,
typically with a high risk of fatal consequences, until the last century when evolutions in the …

Access to safe abortion is a part of women's human rights. 1 It has been clearly shown that
access to legal abortion improves physical and mental health outcomes both for women and …

The moral and philosophical importance of abortion | BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health Skip
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As part of an effort to provide responsive and comprehensive reproductive health services,
an important question must be asked: Is there a problem of unsafe abortion1? If there is …

This special issue contains 12 articles dealing with the sociocultural, legal, ethical, and
public health issues concerning the implementation of legal and safe abortion, taking into …

The World Health Organization defines unsafe abortion as a procedure for terminating an
unintended pregnancy carried out by people lacking the necessary skills or in an …