~ 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 …

Forty per cent of the world's women are living in countries with restrictive abortion laws,
which prohibit abortion or only allow abortion to protect a woman's life or her physical or …

Unsafe abortion is a major public health problem in Africa and is responsible for the deaths
and disabilities of thousands of women each year. Low contraceptive use, restrictive …

Despite advances in scientific evidence, technologies, and human rights rationale for
providing safe abortion, a broad range of cultural, regulatory, and health system barriers that …

The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of
Action represented a positive step toward legitimising abortion as a component of basic …

Every year, worldwide, about 42 million women with unintended pregnancies choose
abortion, and nearly half of these procedures, 20 million, are unsafe. Some 68,000 women …

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 …

This article describes the goals and activities included in the national plans of action for the
prevention of unsafe abortion. With broad variability, all were in line with the initiative's …

Over three fourths of the abortions in South Asia and nearly two thirds of the abortions in
South-East Asia are illegal. The majority of these abortions are also medically unsafe, with …

• If Eastern Asia (including China), where abortion is legal and largely safe and available, is
excluded from the calculations, the number of safe abortions for developing countries was …