In December 2016, following the “Africa Regional Conference on Abortion: From Research
to Policy,” a group of 20 global abortion researchers, representing nine different …

Traditional and cultural values, social perceptions, religious teachings and criminalisation
have facilitated stigmatisation of abortion in Ghana. Abortion is illegal in Ghana except in …

The Italian Ministry of Health reports annually on activities related to abortion and fertility,
providing quantitative data that looks ripe for analysis. Actors ranging from activists to …

Dying to Count: Post-abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal is
an impressive and detailed ethnographic exploration of postabortion care (PAC) as a form of …

The notion of 'culture'features in the abortion literature to explicate, first, contestation of the
meaning of abortion (as in the 'culture wars' about abortion), second, the normalisation of …

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

Abortion has been commonly practised for a long time throughout most of the world either in
legal or illegal conditions, but it is a subject that arouses passion and controversy, because …

Background WHO has a pivotal role to play as the leading international agency promoting
good practices in health and human rights. In 2005, mifepristone and misoprostol were …

Five years after Guyana introduced a liberal abortion law in 1995, the government had failed
to give any sustained leadership in implementing that law. How can one explain the fact that …

This thesis investigates the biopolitcs of the Justice and Development party (the AKP) which
has been the ruling party in Turkey since 2002, with a specific emphasis on the so …