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Jul 3, 2023 · The Supreme Court of India’s judgement on 29th September, 2022, held that unmarried women have the same right to abortion as married women. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (MTP Act), 1 most recently amended in 2021 (Amendment Act), 2 governs the circumstances under which abortions are legally permitted in India.
Type. 256. Intentional abortion. – Any person who shall intentionality cause an abortion shall leidet: 1. The penalty of reclusion temporal, if he shall use any violence upon the person of the pregnant woman. 2. And penalty of prision mayor if, without using violence, i be act without the consent of the dame. 3.
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 ...
Many instances of restrictions on abortion have been reported, even when Catholic facilities have not been involved. 21 For example, some group practices prohibit abortion provision out of fear of controversy; these restrictions can even extend to prohibiting a doctor from providing abortions off-site at a freestanding clinic. 22 Similarly ...
Dec 5, 2012 · Objectives. We assessed the effect of a telemedicine model providing medical abortion on service delivery in a clinic system in Iowa. Methods. We reviewed Iowa vital statistic data and billing data from the clinic system for all abortion encounters during the 2 years prior to and after the introduction of telemedicine in June 2008 (n = 17 956 encounters). We calculated the distance from the ...
May 18, 2023 · Zurawski v. State of Texas. Five women who were denied abortion care in Texas - despite facing dangerous pregnancy complications – and two ob-gyns filed a lawsuit in Texas state court asking ...
May 9, 2022 · Background In 2018, the right to lawful abortion in the Republic of Ireland significantly expanded, and service provision commenced on 1 January, 2019. Community provision of early medical abortion to 9 weeks plus 6 days gestation delivered by General Practitioners constitutes the backbone of the Irish abortion policy implementation. We conducted a study in 2020–2021 to examine the barriers ...