Background Maternal mortality, which primarily burdens developing countries, reflects the
greatest health divide between rich and poor. This is especially pronounced for access to …

Purpose Abortion is a critical reproductive health service that is difficult for many in the
United States to afford owing to policies aimed at restricting insurance coverage of this basic …

Globally, induced abortion—safe or unsafe, legal or illegal—is a reproductive health service
that is part of the lives of women, couples and communities in both developed and …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's
health in Mexico. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which …

Objective The objective was to investigate public funding policies for abortion in countries
with liberal or liberally interpreted laws (defined as permitting abortion for economic or social …

Although patient choice of abortion method is a key component of quality care, medical
abortion (MA) has become the most common method (87%) in England and Wales, as in …

Although abortion is legal in Zambia under a variety of broad conditions, unsafe abortion
remains common. The purpose of this project was to compare the financial costs for women …

Introduction: Based on research conducted in 2017, we estimated the cost to the Tanzanian
health care system of providing postabortion care (PAC). PAC is an integrated service …

There is a dearth of information on induced abortion in Ghana, possibly owing to the
sensitive nature of the subject. In this study, we examine the effect of socioeconomic and …

Unsafe abortion serves as a marker of global inequity as it is concentrated in the developing
world where the poorest and most vulnerable women live. While liberalisation of abortion …