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Aug 12, 2018 · The provision against abortion is generally found in the Criminal Code Act which applies to the whole of the Southern Nigeria (S.228-230, S.297) and in the Penal Code Act for the Northern Nigeria (S.233). The laws are relics of the country’s colonial past, dating back to the English Abortion Laws of 1861.
Oct 31, 1996 · Defending Reproductive Rights in Cyberspace. On June 12, 1996, the ACLU won a watershed victory guaranteeing free speech on the “information superhighway.”. We won a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the Communications Decency Act, which threatened to “gag” Americans by cutting off their discussion of abortion and other ...
abortion has helped to relieve the bottleneck of abortion service provision.24,25 However, in spite of South Africa's policy-making efforts, staff, infrastructure and budgetary constraints have limited the effectiveness and timeliness of the rollout of abortion services in the country.26,27 Yet the greatest barrier to implementing the abortion ...
Mar 10, 2024 · Abortion has been legal in India since 1971. When the original act was first put into effect in 1971, access to a medical abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy required the approval of one registered doctor, and access to an abortion up to 20 weeks required the approval of two doctors. Through an amendment in 2003, new rules were introduced in ...
Conclusions: People who have previously had a medication abortion are interested in alternative methods of provision for reasons concerning convenience, privacy, and avoiding burdens related to hostile policy environments, such as long travel distances to clinics and multiple appointments. Concerns around these models were primarily safety ...
INCIDENCE OF ABORTION. • Despite the highly restrictive abortion law that was in place, an estimated 60,000 induced abortions were performed in Rwanda in 2009, for an annual rate of 25 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44. • Rwanda’s abortion rate is relatively low compared with rates estimated by the World Health Organization for all ...
