support access to sexual and reproductive health care, including safe abortion, around the world In partnership with more than 50 organizations across Africa and Latin America, we work to ensure that women, men, and young people in some of the world’s most neglected areas have access to the health care they need to control their futures
from programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Bellows et al, 2015) Safe abortion The WHO review (WHO, 2012) also reports on evidence for increasing access to safe abortion No evidence was found on efforts to increase access to abortion according to existing laws through community or policy leaders
ceptive use is relatively low, the average abortion rates cluster much more closely to the levels in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe Unlike in Eastern Europe, however, abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia is mostly illegal, clandestine and unsafe The Health Rationale In some countries where abortion is legal
tion vary worldwide In Africa and Latin America, most countries allow abortion only in limited circumstances, and some forbid it altogether 10,11 When access to abortion within the formal medical sector is restricted, some women seek clandestine or self-managed care, which sometimes can be considered less safe or least safe, in terms of the
abortions in Latin America and the Caribbean were safe The majority (60 ) of procedures fell into the less-safe category About 760,000 women in the region are treated annually for complications from unsafe abortion In 2014, at least 10 of all maternal deaths (or 900 deaths) in Latin America and the Caribbean were from unsafe abortion
countries are reported to have the highest rates of unsafe abortion, 36 per 1000, whilst the lowest rates are in Southern Africa (9 per 1000) 9 In general, sub-Saharan African countries have some of the most restrictive abortion laws Although laws limit access to abortion services, it is important to
unsafe abortion, and access to safe and legal abortion varies across the region Across sub-Saharan Africa, unintended pregnancy persists among adolescents, the majority of women undergoing unsafe abortion are young women, and abortion laws are restrictive but vary across the region
Abortion Laws map to visually compare the legal status of induced abortion in different countries—and to advocate for greater progress in ensuring access to safe and legal abortion services for all women worldwide The legal status of abortion is an important indicator of women’s ability to enjoy their reproductive rights
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International Human Rights Law and Abortion in Latin America
In Latin America and the Caribbean, women face multiple barriers to free exercise of their reproductive rights, including restrictive abortion legislation 2 In fact, many women struggle
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Increasing Access to Safe Abortion Worldwide
support access to sexual and reproductive health care, including safe abortion, around the world In partnership with more than 50 organizations across Africa and Latin America, we work to ensure that women, men, and young people in some of the world’s most neglected areas have access to the health care they need to control their futures
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The Politics of Abortion in Latin America: Public Debates
Latin America Latin America is a hostile place for girls and women who seek to end their pregnancies Only one country permits abortion on demand In the rest, the restrictions vary, but, overall, procedures to terminate preg-nancies are restricted or banned in more than 97 percent of the region
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ADDRESSING ABORTION STIGMA THROUGH SERVICE DELIVERY
Africa and Latin America The final section provides recommendations for increasing and expanding programs to address abortion stigma We envision this paper as a document that can and should change over time We list a set of open-ended questions at the end of each section and ask that readers communicate with us and with one another to improve our collective knowledge on how to dismantle
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Abortion Law and Policy Around the World: In Search of
countries of Africa, the Caribbean, and Oceania; • civil law: most of the rest of Europe, including Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, and their for-mer colonies, Turkey and Japan, most of Latin America, non-Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa, and the former Soviet republics of Central and Western Asia In addition, the laws of several North African and Middle Eastern countries have been
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Offline: Access to safe abortion and ending stillbirths
Abortion is common One quarter of pregnancies end in abortion Although the abortion rate has declined in eastern Europe and North America, it remains stubbornly the same across Africa, Asia, and Latin America You can’t legislate abortion away either—there is no association between the legal status of abortion and the abortion rate
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HOW TO IMPROVE SAFE ABORTION CARE IN SOUTH AFRICA’S
Ipas works globally to improve access to safe abortion and contraception so that every woman and girl can determine her own future Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, we work with partners to make safe abortion and contraception widely available, to connect women with vital information so they can access safe services, and to advocate for safe, legal abortion PO Box 9990 Chapel Hill, NC
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Health care providersŁ perceptions of and attitudes
Saharan Africa, 23 per 100 000 in Latin America and the Caribbean and 12 per 100 000 in South Asia In countries with legal access to safe abortion services, deaths related to abortion are virtually non-existent [5] According to the most recent global estimates for abortion-related deaths by WHO, unsafe abortions are responsible for approximately 47,000 deaths each year [6] Kassebaum et al
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WOMEN IN POLITICS AND POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
tral question remains: will having more women in decision-mak- ing positions result in more gender-sensitive policies? The CPPF Working Papers on Women in Politics series looks at how four different regions—the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa—have encouraged women’s political participation, and it evaluates the
Access to safe and legal abortion is a central human rights issue Human And many Latin American feminist groups have not example, the African regional human rights system now has The question reached the commission through a
ing world; the highest rates are in Africa and in Latin America and the Where access to safe abortion is restricted, complications from unsafe abortion lacked the power to resist, results from their individual moral reflection on their cir-