The majority of countries in the world provide for certain instances when abortion is legal 1 A handful of countries have enacted complete bans on abortion
World Population Policies 2017: Abortion laws and policies, available at: Health care personnel allowed to provide legal abortions
Today almost all European countries allow abortion on request or on broad social grounds and only a very small minority maintain highly restrictive laws
The law on abortion in Ireland is highly restrictive by European standards Only three European states can be said to retain tighter restrictions: Malta, *
The central court decision that created current abortion law in the U S is Roe v Wade In this 1973 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that women had a
Abortion In The Common Law World I INTODUCTION On 22 January 1973 the U S Supreme Court handed down its long awaited opinions in Roe v Wade1 and Doe v
115 State law requires that your physician or a qualified professional give you the opportunity to call 116 agencies like these before you undergo an abortion