Abstract Background The Ethiopian law on abortion was liberalized in 2005. However, as a
strongly religious country, the new law has remained controversial from the outset. Many …

Around the world, abortion remains a highly politicised reality, co-opted into party political
agendas, decolonising rhetoric, religious pronouncements and rejections of Western …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Senegal between 2010 and 2011, I
demonstrate how health professionals have deployed indicators such as number of women …

In 1965, Tunisia became the first Moslem country to liberalize abortion laws. This paper is a
review of Tunisia's experience and is, therefore, significant to other Moslem countries. The …

Objectives This study explores abortion decision-making trajectories in Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso, examining the spaces for decision making that young people manage to …

This article explores the medical history of abortion in South Africa during the last three
decades of the twentieth century, focusing on the role played by doctors in their clinical …

This paper provides an overview of legal, religious, medical and social factors that serve to
support or hinder women's access to safe abortion services in the 21 predominantly Muslim …

Turkey currently pursues an aggressive pronatalist population politics which has created
wide-reaching reproductive governance regulating reproductive health care and family …

This thesis is about family law under the Ben Ali dictatorship where the women's rights
embodied in these laws constituted a cornerstone of the state's legitimacy. in 1956, Tunisia …

Women, the law, and the family in Tunisia Page 1 F amily life moulds men and women, and
determines both where and how they live. The family is, however, also a nucleus of society. To …