Understandings of self-managed abortion as health inequity, harm reduction and social change

JN Erdman, K Jelinska, S Yanow - Reproductive health matters, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This commentary explores how self-managed abortion (SMA) has transformed
understandings of and discourses on safe abortion and associated health inequities through …

Abortion rights beyond the medico-legal paradigm

MP Assis, JN Erdman - Global Public Health, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abortion rights in international law have historically been framed within a medico-legal
paradigm, the belief that regulated systems of legal and medical control guarantee safe …

[HTML][HTML] Self-managed abortion: a constellation of actors, a cacophony of laws?

L Berro Pizzarossa, R Nandagiri - Sexual and Reproductive Health …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Toward human rights and evidence-based legal frameworks for (self-managed) abortion: a review of the last decade of legal reform

LB Pizzarossa, P Skuster - Health and human rights, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the late 1980s, people have safely self-managed their abortions with medication,
changing the landscape of abortion. This practice continues to evolve and expand and has …

[HTML][HTML] Autonomous health movements: criminalization, de-medicalization, and community-based direct action

N Braine - Health and human rights, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This paper proposes the concept of autonomous health movements, drawing on an analysis
of harm reduction in the United States and self-managed abortion globally. Harm reduction …

Expanding reproductive justice through a supportability reparative justice framework: the case of abortion in South Africa

CI Macleod - Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Theoretical refinement of the concept of reproductive justice has been called for. In this
paper, I propose the use of a supportability reparative justice approach. Drawing on intra …

Sharing responsibility: women, society and abortion worldwide

S Singh - 1999 - policyarchive.org
Abortion Worldwide Title Page 1 RESPONSIBILITY SHARING THEALAN
GUTTMACHERINSTITUTE WOMEN SOCIETY &ABORTION WORLDWIDE Page 2 Sharing …

Accounting for abortion: Accomplishing transnational reproductive governance through post-abortion care in Senegal

S Suh - Global public health, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Reproductive governance operates through calculating demographic statistics that offer
selective truths about reproductive practices, bodies, and subjectivities. Post-abortion care, a …

The power dynamics perpetuating unsafe abortion in Africa: A feminist perspective

T Braam, L Hessini - African journal of reproductive health, 2004 - JSTOR
Tens of thousands of African women die every year because societies and governments
either ignore the issue of unsafe abortion or actively refuse to address it. This paper explores …

Abortion in a progressive legal environment: the need for vigilance in protecting and promoting access to safe abortion services in South Africa

KA Trueman, M Magwentshu - American journal of …, 2013 - ajph.aphapublications.org
The importance of South Africa as a model for reproductive self-determination in Africa
cannot be underestimated. Abortion has been legal since 1996, and the country has some of …