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

Abstract The Italian Supreme Court ruling no. 18901 of May 13, 2021 has determined that
doctors who are opposed to abortion can refuse to perform it on grounds of conscience, but …

Reproductive governance operates through calculating demographic statistics that offer
selective truths about reproductive practices, bodies, and subjectivities. Post-abortion care, a …

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 …

Sociologists have used boundary work theory to explore the strategies deployed by
professionals to define and defend jurisdictional authority in the arenas of the public, the law …

Abortion and the legal regulation of access to abortion are even these days a matter of
numerous trivial, scientific and theoretical discussions. The first part of the article aims to …

Self-managed abortion (SMA) is not a new phenomenon but occurs across histories 1 and
social and legal contexts, 2 utilising a range of methods. 1 SMA is broadly understood as …

This article draws on legal arguments made by civil society organisations to challenge the
legal reasoning that apparently produced the decision in the Ms Y case in Ireland in August …

Since the early 1990s, post-abortion care (PAC) has been advocated as a harm reduction
approach to maternal mortality and morbidity in countries with restrictive abortion laws. PAC …