Abstract Background In 2006, Colombia's constitutional court overturned a complete ban on
abortion, liberalizing the procedure. Despite a relatively liberal new law, women still struggle …

Objectives To provide the first estimate of adolescents' abortion incidence in Uganda and to
assess differences in the abortion experiences and morbidities of adolescent and …

Infections during pregnancy are relatively prevalent, and the majority of cases are managed
well in the community. Occasionally, however, infections may be life-threatening. Sepsis …

Abstract Background Abortion rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are nearly
triple those in Western Europe, due to less use of contraception and highly restrictive …

Introduction: Little is known about Australian rural women's overall experiences of accessing
an abortion service and the barriers they encounter. Approximately one in three Australian …

In April 2007, the Mexico City, Mexico, legislature passed landmark legislation
decriminalizing elective abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. In Mexico City, safe …

Background Unintended pregnancy (UP) is an unmet medical need with consequences
worldwide. We evaluate the costs of UP based on pregnancies in Brazil from for the year …

Background Delays in seeking quality post abortion care services remain a major contributor
to high levels of mortality and morbidity among women who experience unsafe abortion …

FIGO established a Working Group on the Prevention of Unsafe Abortion in 2007 and a
parallel program or “Initiative” with the same name. The initiative involved 46 FIGO member …

Prenatal diagnosis was developed in the 1970s, a result of a partly contingent coming
together of three medical innovations—amniocentesis, the study of human chromosomes …