Confronting the reality of abortion in Latin America

LC Remez - International Family Planning Perspectives, 1995 - JSTOR
… voted to the incidence of abortion, with two presentations that … in six Latin American countries,
data on hospitalized abortion … of induced abortion as spontaneous abortion (since women …

Abortion in Latin America: changes in practice, growing conflict, and recent policy developments

A Kulczycki - Studies in family planning, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… Drawing on numerous sources of evidence, this article provides a regional analysis of the
rapidly changing practice and context of abortion in Latin America, and examines emerging …

The problem of induced abortion in Latin America

M Requena - Demography, 1968 - JSTOR
In the majority of Latin American countries, induced abortion still constitutes the most widely …
in Latin America is highly determined by the influence of the incidence of induced abortion. …

The clandestine epidemic: the practice of unsafe abortion in Latin America

JM Paxman, A Rizo, L Brown, J Benson - Studies in family planning, 1993 - JSTOR
… of induced abortions performed each year in Latin America range from 2.7 to 7.4 million, or
from 10 to 27 percent of all abortions … The reality is nearly 30 years of a clandestine epidemic. …

The abortion debate in Mexico: Realities and stalled policy reform

A Kulczycki - Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… Beyond mexico: The abortion debate in latin america The findings of this study appear to
be reflected in many Central and Latin American countries, all of which have high abortion

Abortion in Latin America in International Perspective: Limitations and Potentials of the Use of Human Rights Law to Challenge Restrictions

N Sedacca - Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just., 2017 - HeinOnline
The Zika virus epidemic has brought into focus the harsh impact of restrictions on abortion
in Latin America. Published medical research has confirmed that the disease, when …

The current status of abortion laws in Latin America: prospects and strategies for change

R Boland - Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 1993 - cambridge.org
… , the prognosis for dramatic change in Latin America’s abortion laws in the near future was …
willingness of most Latin American societies to ignore the social realities of abortion. Moreover…

Abortion in Brazil: legislation, reality and options

AC Guedes - Reproductive Health Matters, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
… as a whole, complications from unsafe, illegal abortions are one of the principal … Latin
American countries up to the early 199Os, Brazil had a higher rate of hospitalisations for abortion

Feminist mobilization and the abortion debate in Latin America: Lessons from Argentina

M Daby, MW Moseley - Politics & Gender, 2022 - cambridge.org
… ” national debate regarding the decriminalization of abortion, it took many by surprise. In a
… opinion regarding abortion had hardly moved in decades—why would the abortion debate …

Estimated levels of induced abortion in six Latin American countries

S Singh, D Wulf - International Family Planning Perspectives, 1994 - JSTOR
… of complications of induced abortion in Latin America in a given year, and an estimated
four million abortions take place. The abortion rate most likely ranges from 23 abortions per …