Executive summary Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental to
people's health and survival, to economic development, and to the wellbeing of humanity …

Background Global estimates of unsafe abortions have been produced for 1995, 2003, and
2008. However, reconceptualisation of the framework and methods for estimating abortion …

Access to contraception reduces maternal deaths by preventing or delaying pregnancy in
women who do not intend to be pregnant or those at higher risk of complications. However …

When Zika made headlines in 2016, images of women cradling babies affected with
microcephaly spread across the media and pulled on heartstrings. But, as this book argues …

Background To evaluate the feasibility of conducting a prospective study to measure self-
managed medication abortion outcomes, and to collect preliminary data on safety and …

Background Unsafe abortion is one of the commonest causes of maternal mortality. Abortion-
related maternal deaths are higher in countries with the most restrictive abortion laws. We …

The promise of medical abortion to both reduce maternal mortality and morbidity from unsafe
abortion and to expand the reproductive rights of women can only be realized if information …

Self-managed abortion (SMA) is not a new phenomenon but occurs across histories 1 and
social and legal contexts, 2 utilising a range of methods. 1 SMA is broadly understood as …

Objective Legal restrictions on abortion access impact the safety and timing of abortion.
Women affected by these laws face barriers to safe care that often result in abortion being …

Background Although abortion is a common gynecological procedure around the globe, we
lack synthesis of the known macroeconomic costs and outcomes of abortion care and …