Article: Chapter 3. Abortion in Law: Legality and Actuality. (Induced Abortion).

The legal environment surrounding abortion is a significant factor affecting women's ability to end an unwanted pregnancy. One in four of the world's women--most of them in the developing world--live in countries that ban abortion or permit it only to save a woman's life. More than two in four women live under laws that permit abortion on broad grounds, but even these laws impose certain limitations on the procedure. Since the 1950s, many developed and some developing countries have liberalized their abortion laws, usually to minimize morbidity and mortality from clandestine procedures, but this trend has been slow in Africa and has hardly touched Latin America. Where ...

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