Impacts of COVID-19 on contraceptive and abortion services in low-and middle-income countries: a scoping review

CB Polis, A Biddlecom, S Singh, BA Ushie… - Sexual and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionate effects on people living in low-and middle-
income countries (LMICs), exacerbating weak health systems. We conducted a scoping …

Termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly: a systematic review of the healthcare experiences and needs of parents

S Heaney, M Tomlinson, Á Aventin - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022 - Springer
Background Improved technology and advances in clinical testing have resulted in
increased detection rates of congenital anomalies during pregnancy, resulting in more …

Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–2019

JM Bearak, A Popinchalk, C Beavin, B Ganatra… - BMJ global …, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Internationally comparable estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion
incidence can illuminate disparities in sexual and reproductive health and autonomy …

[HTML][HTML] From unsafe to safe abortion in sub-Saharan Africa: slow but steady progress

A Bankole, L Remez, O Owolabi, J Philbin, P Williams - 2020 - guttmacher.org
This report on induced abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa offers an overview of the legality of
abortion and describes how often and how safely abortions occur in the region's 48 …

Abortion legalization in Uruguay: effects on adolescent fertility

W Cabella, C Velázquez - Studies in Family Planning, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Latin American and Caribbean adolescent fertility rates are among the highest
in the world: about 1.7 million children are born to teen mothers every year, and most of …

Easing of regulatory barriers to telemedicine abortion in response to COVID-19

P Skuster, J Dhillon, J Li - Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
For many people seeking abortion during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine
abortion is the safest and most acceptable method, posing lower risk of exposure to the …

Maintaining exceptionality: interrogating gestational limits for abortion

E Millar - Social & Legal Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Gestational limits on abortion are often seen as a condition for decriminalisation. Focusing
on the final reports of three institutional law reform inquiries into abortion in Australia, this …

“The kind of doctor who doesn't believe doctor knows best”: Doctors for Choice and the medical voice in Irish abortion politics, 2002–2018

S Bergen - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
This article examines how the physician advocacy organization Doctors for Choice
articulated a collective pro-choice “medical voice” over the course of sixteen years. This …

Global implications of overturning Roe v Wade

S Singh, G Sedgh - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Given the United States' extensive global influence—including on sexual and reproductive
health programmes—how might the recent US Supreme Court decision overturning the …

Abortion attitudes across cultural contexts: Exploring the role of gender inequality, abortion policy, and individual values.

L Adair, N Lozano, N Ferenczi - International Perspectives in …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
We explored between-country and within-country variability in abortion attitudes, using
country-level factors (eg, gender equality) and individual-level factors (eg, gender role …