Issues

PDF Irene Maffi and Malika Affes Abstract In this article, we explore the effects that Tunisia’s post-revolutionary democratization process has had on the right to abortion, drawing on ethnographic material, interviews, and medical files that we…

PDF Ana Cristina González-Vélez, Carolina Melo-Arévalo, and Juliana Martínez-Londoño Abstract The two main legal models governing abortion provision, indications for abortion and time limits on the number of weeks of pregnancy, both limit…

PDF Sunhye Kim, Na Young, and Yurim Lee Abstract This paper examines how issues related to abortion have historically been influenced by population control policies in South Korea and how the contemporary reproductive justice movement in South…

PDF Marge Berer and Lesley Hoggart This special section of the Health and Human Rights Journal captures a particular historical moment in the world of abortion law, policy, and practice, which is a constantly changing space. In the countries and…

PDF Gloria Maira, Lidia Casas, and Lieta Vivaldi Abstract Until as recently as September 2017, Chile was one of the few countries in the world that did not permit abortion under any circumstances. Although the Health Code had permitted…

PDF Pam Lowe and Sarah-Jane Page Abstract This article analyzes the ways in which rights-based arguments are utilized by anti-abortion activists in the UK. Drawing on an ethnographic study featuring 30 abortion clinic sites, anti-abortion…

PDF Aimée Patricia Ndembi Ndembi, Justine Mekuí, Gail Pheterson, and Marijke Alblas Abstract Complications from spontaneous and induced abortion are a primary cause of death of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Le Réseau d’Afrique Centrale pour la…

PDF Satang Nabaneh Abstract The aim of this paper is to assess The Gambia’s laws on abortion. It argues that the restrictive laws on abortion are less a function of religious doctrine and more due to the historical and contemporary structure of…

PDF Ximena Casas, Mitchelle Kimathi-Osiemo, Dee Redwine, Claire Tebbets, and Karen Plafker Abstract Access to safe abortion care is threatened, especially in legally restrictive settings, when providers are harassed or prosecuted on spurious…

PDF Padma Bhate-Deosthali and Sangeeta Rege Abstract Access to abortion is desperately needed when pregnancy is the result of rape, both within and outside marriage, and especially when a girl has been raped. The availability of services…