In Ghana, adolescents under the age of 20 (44%) were the least likely to obtain care from trained abortion providers when compared to women ages 20-29 (57%) or women 30 and older (65%). 40 When controlling for demographic and economic factors and the knowledge of abortion legality, adolescent girls still had a 77% lower odds of a safe filexlib. Legal access to abortion should be ensured in certain circumstances.28 Human rights mechanisms have expressed concern about criminal abortion laws and encouraged States to review their legislation to ensure effective and confidential access to safe legal abortion in cases when the pregnancy endangers the life or health of a pregnant abortion care—from 58 to 208 miles. 17. The expense of abortion care is already very high for some women; these types of restrictions may unfairly make it accessible to only the wealthy. 18. Limited access to abortion makes it likely that self-induction will become more common. Misoprostol is a medically safe way to self-induce abortion, but it
Abstract. This paper discusses the extremely complex and important topic and dilemma of abortion. Specifically, that the pro-life versus pro-choice dilemma is an imperative one that continues to cause ethical tensions in the United States. For this reason, this issue and dilemma warrants close scrutiny. It affects many major areas including
experiences of abortion - for example, decision-making, stigma, and post-abortion distress - and that examine how women's experiences are embedded in the discur-sive, institutional, and material contexts of their lives. Heretofore, Feminism & Psychology has contained few articles on abortion, unintended pregnancy, or contraception.
files.dre.pt There are two main arguments in favour of abortion. First, that of Mary Anne Warren, who argued that it is a person, rather than simply a human being, that is entitled to rights, including the right to life. Abortion could therefore be deemed acceptable, as while a fetus is undeniably a human being, it is not a person.
Abortion (especially unsafe) may have serious health consequences and cause complications such as hemorrhage, sepsis and uterine perforation [ 6, 7 ]. The global rate of abortion has been constant at 28-29/1000 women aged 15-44 years from 2003 to 2008, but the proportion of unsafe abortions has increased from 44.0% in 1995 to 49.0% in 2008 [ 8 ].
The article by Sedgh and colleagues documents stagnation in global abortion rates between 2003 and 2008 (29 and 28 abortions per 1000 women aged 15-44 years, respectively), effectively ending the nearly decade-long decline that preceded 2003 and suggesting recent growth in the number of women with unmet need for contraception.
•Having a wanted abortion was not associated with mental health harms. • Compared to receiving an abortion, being denied a wanted abortion was associated with experiencing more symptoms of anxiety and low self-esteem one week after denial. • Both women who received and women who were denied an abortion experienced improvements in their
sponsoring agencies that offer viable alternatives to abortion. 6. The Church should declare to the world and teach its members that abortion should never be used as a convenience or a means of birth control. 7. The Church should actively oppose the killing of human embryos through the extraction of stem cells for medical research or treatment. 8.
review of abortion in India was written by Heidi Johnston as part of the Abortion Assessment Project-India (AAPI) working papers series in 2002.3 In her re