THIS is RHM's 10th anniversary year and the third journal issue in which RHM has focused
on abortion since 1993 [1]. Looking back, it is heartening to see how much has changed …

~ HE safety and legality of abortion are matters of life and death for women. Thus, this issue
of Reproductive Health Matters takes up the subject of abortion, from the point of view of …

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 …

This report assesses progress over the past decade regarding the legality, safety and
accessibility of abortion services worldwide. It summarizes developments in policy and …

MEDICAL abortion is the use of pills to cause a miscarriage. It represents a particularly
important advance in abortion technology because it is bringing women's access to safe …

The aim of this paper is to provide a panoramic view of laws and policies on abortion around
the world, giving a range of country-based examples. It shows that the plethora of …

Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health
problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent years it has been estimated …

~ 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 …

Induced abortions 42 million 38 million 130 million unsafe abortions. Unsafe abortion
accounts for 13 percent of deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth in the developing …

Unsafe abortion is preventable and yet remains a significant cause of maternal morbidity
and mortality in much of the developing world. Over the last decade, the World Health …