Abortion in Morocco is illegal except to safeguard a woman's life or health. Morocco has put
some sexual and reproductive health policies into motion that are in line with the standards …

Since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in
1994, sexual and reproductive health and rights have been recognized as key parts of the …

The decision to terminate a pregnancy is not one that is taken lightly. The need for an
abortion reflects limited sexual autonomy, ineffective or lack of access to contraceptive …

While prosecutions of women who have had an illegal abortion are rare in Cameroon,
women who have a legitimate claim to a legal abortion, eg following rape, can rarely take …

The island of Guernsey liberalised its abortion law last year, and in Ireland it is now legal to
give women information about abortion clinics abroad. In Portugal, the parliament just …

Unsafe abortion is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in Africa. In international
human rights law, there are two possible approaches to tackling the problem of unsafe …

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 …

Many women took to the streets worldwide on September 28, the global day of action for
safe abortion successes and put forth new demands for women's right to access safe, free …

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 …

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 …