Objective. To present and assess evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) on
public policies and targeted programs which may have influenced variations in adolescent …

Abortion is criminalised to at least some degree in most countries. International human rights
bodies have recognised that criminalisation results in the provision of poor-quality …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's
health in Mexico. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which …

Where abortion is legal, it is often regulated through a grounds-based approach. A grounds-
based approach to abortion provision occurs when law and policy provide that lawful …

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 …

Between 2016 and 2018, we observe in Uruguay a steep decline of almost 20 percent in the
number of total births, leading to the collapse of the adolescent fertility rate after decades of …

While restrictive abortion laws still prevail in most low-and middle-income countries (LMICs),
many countries have reformed their abortion laws, expanding the grounds on which abortion …

We examine the long-term consequences of restricted access to abortion following a change
in the Hungarian abortion law in 1974. Due to a change that restricted access to legal …

We analyze the relationship between abortions and economic fluctuation at the US state
level for the 1995–2016 period. We do not find a statistically significant association between …

Teenage fertility is a social problem because of its private and public costs in countries of
different development levels. Reductions in adolescent birth rates do not necessarily follow …