… abortion have grown. The contested policy shifts include Mexico City’s 2007 legalization of
first-trimester abortion… rapidly changing practice and context of abortion in Latin America, and …

… Recognizing that Latin America and the Caribbean make up a vast and diverse region …
What trends and practices describe the incidence of induced abortion in Latin America? What are …

… One is the fact that in most Latin American countries, abortion is a clandestine practice
shaped by cultural taboos and personal conflicts. The other is the fact that no matter what the …

… While small, these numbers highlight the potential for the practice of safe medical abortion
in highly restrictive settings when women are well-informed and can access the appropriate …

… abortion has radically changed abortion practices worldwide, and particularly in legally
restricted contexts. In Latin America … for self-induced home abortions for over two decades. …

… , there may still be important regional differences in the use of self-induced or
unregulated abortion practices, which could also have an impact on national rates of CZS. …

… peerreviewed literature on abortion opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean published
… studies also include information on abortion practices or knowledge of abortion law, we only …

… probably due to regional initiatives that appealed to professionalism and ethics in relation
to the duty of providing information as a way of reducing unsafe abortion practices.28 29 …

… of abortion practice. This level may characterize some subgroups of the population, however,
such as rural women, who may experience greater than average difficulty in obtaining a …

… morbidity and mortality related to unsafe abortion. However, research among this … abortion,
is significantly limited. This article reviews the literature on unsafe abortion in Latin America …