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approaches to and discourses about unsafe abortion. The vehicle for this exploration is access to safer-use information on … medication abortion, namely women’s self-administration of the drug misoprostol. More specifically, this Article focuses on the … Sanitary Initiative Against Unsafe Abortion (“the Uruguay Model”) as an actualized model or prototype of access to information …
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appropriate measures "to protect the reproductive rights of women by authorising medical abortion in cases of sexual assault, rape … foetus." This paper considers the implications of Article 14 for access to safe, legal abortion. It is submitted that Article … 14 has the potential to impact positively on regional abortion law, policy and practice in three main areas. First, it …
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Commissioner for Human Rights have collaborated. Special issues in clinical care concern abortion services for HIV-positive women …
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Each year an estimated 515 000 women die of complications of pregnancy and childbirth, 7 million more suffer serious health problems and 50 million suffer adverse health effects. Over 98% of deaths occur in resource-poor countries. However, poverty alone neither justifies nor necessarily...
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This article adopts a human rights lens to consider Australian law and practice regarding elective abortion. As such … rights. It considers the importance of decriminalizing abortion and regulating it as a standard medical procedure. It … discusses the need to remove legal and practical restrictions on access to abortion, including financial obstacles and anti-abortion …
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that support women's human right to abortion. It summarises pertinent developments within the United Nations, European …, Inter-American and African human rights systems regarding abortion, as they relate to women's rights to life and health, in … situations of rape, incest or foetal impairment, and for abortion based on social and economic reasons and on request. In doing …
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Against the backdrop of the Zika virus epidemic bringing into focus the harsh impacts of prohibitions on abortion in … Peru, Mexico and El Salvador, it argues that, despite important successes and the basis for protection of abortion access …, however, are, more specific controversies regarding abortion, including those related to its damaging association with the …
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Most contemporary constitutions prohibit discrimination based on gender. Yet, as feminist legal scholars have shown, even a constitutional principle of nondiscrimination is not sufficient by itself to ensure women's de facto equality. These scholars advocate applying a gendered perspective to...
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