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As a result of restrictive abortion laws and policies, many women experiencing complications of pregnancy and needing therapeutic abortion are forced to suffer from painful, frightening and life-threatening conditions. • Human rights bodies have recognized that restrictive abortion laws can lead to violations of
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Nov 19, 2019 · We found 103 articles, 13 of which tested the association between abortion and suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, or self-harm. We searched the references of these articles and found one more study on suicidal ideation published since 2008. Three datasets were each analysed in two separate articles.
- Julia R Steinberg, Thomas M Laursen, Thomas M Laursen, Nancy E Adler, Christiane Gasse, Esben Agerbo...
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These pivotal evidence-based recommendations and best practices recognise the needs of pregnant individuals across the abortion care pathway, calling for the removal of unnecessary policy barriers and providing clear guidance to health-care providers for the delivery of safe abortion care.
- WOMEN'S RIGHT TO HEALTH
- WOMEN’S RIGHT TO NONDISCRIMINATION
- WOMEN’S RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION
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International law guarantees women the right to "the highest attainable standard of health."7 Unsafe abortion can have devastating effects on women’s health. Where death does not result from unsafe abortion, women may experience long-term disabili-ties, such as uterine perforation, chronic pelvic pain or pelvic inflammatory disease. Safe abortio...
The right to gender equality is a fundamental principle of human rights law. Freedom from discrimination in the enjoyment of protected human rights is ensured in every major human rights instrument. Denying women access to abortion is a form of gender discrimination. According to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination ag...
A woman has a right to make decisions regarding her own body. Support for this right is found in a number of human rights instruments, which ensure freedom in decision-mak-ing about private matters. Such provisions include protections of the right to physical integrity, the right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of one’s ch...
Women have the right to decide whether or not to bring a pregnancy to term. When a pregnancy is unwanted, its continuation can take a heavy toll on a woman’s physical and emotional well-being. Decisions one makes about one’s body, particularly one’s reproductive capacity, lie squarely in the domain of private decision-making. Only a pregnant wom...
To address this knowledge gap, we investigated whether different measures of state-level legislation pertaining to access to reproductive care, including abortion, were associated with suicide rates of women from 1974 to 2016.
Comprehensive abortion care, which includes information provision, abortion management, and post-abortion care, is an integral component of sexual and reproductive health and is a safe, simple health-care intervention that saves women’s lives and safeguards their dignity and bodily autonomy.
Oct 26, 2022 · Legal abortion is a safe clinical procedure, with extremely low rates of complications and death. 1 Conversely, the risk of death associated with childbirth is 14 times that associated with legal...
