[HTML][HTML] The production of ignorance about medication abortion in Tunisia: between state policies, medical opposition, patriarchal logics and Islamic revival

I Maffi - Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, 2022 - Elsevier
In Tunisia, medication abortion has been available in government reproductive and sexual
health clinics since the early 2000s. Since its introduction, it has rapidly replaced the …

Abortion in Tunisia after the revolution: bringing a new morality into the old reproductive order

I Maffi - Global public health, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of Islamist movements and religious symbolic repertoires in the aftermath of
the Tunisian revolution has elicited the political, moral, and practical contestation of women's …

Contextualizing medication abortion in seven African nations: A literature review

H Moseson, J Shaw, S Chandrasekaran… - Health care for …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We conducted a comprehensive literature review on abortion in seven African countries to
synthesize and analyze the landscape of abortion-related scientific knowledge, with the aim …

[HTML][HTML] The right to abortion in Tunisia after the Revolution of 2011: legal, Medical, and social arrangements as seen through seven abortion stories

I Maffi, M Affes - Health and Human Rights, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this article, we explore the effects that Tunisia's post-revolutionary democratization
process has had on the right to abortion, drawing on ethnographic material, interviews, and …

Dualities between Tunisian provider beliefs and actions in abortion care

S Raifman, S Hajri, C Gerdts… - Reproductive Health …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Despite Tunisia's historically progressive reproductive health policies, Tunisian women now
face significant challenges accessing legal abortion. Through in-depth interviews with …

In the name of women: comparing gynecologists' discourses about abortion in Italy

R Ghigi, V Quaglia - Italian Sociological Review, 2023 - cris.unibo.it
For at least fifty years, voluntary termination of pregnancy has represented a terrain of
struggles among different theoretical and political positions, often claimed 'in the name of …

From women's 'irresponsibility'to foetal 'patienthood': Obstetricians-gynaecologists' perspectives on abortion and its stigmatisation in Italy and Cataluña

S De Zordo - Global Public Health, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores obstetricians-gynaecologists' experiences and attitudes towards
abortion, based on two mixed-methods studies respectively undertaken in Italy in 2011 …

[HTML][HTML] Non-marital pregnancies and unmarried Women's search for illegal abortion in Morocco

I Capelli - Health and Human Rights, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

Abortion, law, and health in the Arab world

I Maffi, L Tønnessen - Research Handbook on International …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
Most abortion laws in the Arab world are punitive or very restrictive, and their effect on
women's health is largely understudied. 1 Conducting research on this sensitive topic is …

Documenting activism and advocacy around medication abortion in Central, East, and West Africa

M Bornstein, YY Young, LB Pizzarossa… - African Journal of …, 2023 - ajol.info
Medication abortion, a safe and effective method for terminating pregnancy in the first and
second trimester, can reduce overall maternal mortality. However, little is known about how …