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Journal Offers Survey Results from 27 Nations.
Why do women have abortions? Although abortion has been legal nationwide in the U.S. since 1973 and even earlier in other nations, not a lot is known about the reasons women in some of these other countries have abortions.
A report in the August 1998 issue of International Family Planning Perspectives1 examined the reasons women around the world have abortions. While the data are limited, they confirm what a survey of American abortion patients found in the late 1980s: that the vast majority are performed for social, not medical reasons.
Authors Akinrinola Bankole, Susheela Singh, and Taylor Haas analyzed data from 32 different studies gathered from 27 ...
- Abortion worldwide: twelve years of reform.
- Magazine article from: Women in Action April 1, 2008 700+ words
...In all cases, women should have access...complications arising from abortion ...,' consider...measures against women who have undergone illegal abortions." --Beijing...reexamine restrictive abortion laws that punish women. By linking women...
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...procedure in use today for abortions conducted between...law does not violate abortion rights because the women who seek late-term abortions could legally undergo abortion procedures in which...undue burden'' on a woman's right to an abortion...
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...characteristics of women who obtained abortions. This report...1996; final abortion data for...national abortion rate (number of legal abortions per 1000 women aged 15...assessment of abortion on an ongoing...characteristics of women obtaining legal abortions). ...
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- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Jones, Rachel K. Zolna, Mia R.S. Henshaw, Stanley K. Finer, Lawrence B. March 1, 2008 700+ words
...and access to abortion services. The number of abortions in the United...Similarly, the abortion rate declined...per 1,000 women aged 15-44...difficult for women to access abortion services and...to perform abortions. For example...
- Abortion Surveillance - United States, 1995.(part 1)
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Koonin, Lisa M. Smith, Jack C. Ramick, Merrell Strauss, Lilo T. July 3, 1998 700+ words
...of legal induced abortions was available from...characteristics of women who obtained abortions. The availability...characteristics of women who obtained an abortion in 1995 varied by...data by age of the woman, whereas only 21...
- Abortion surveillance: preliminary data - United States, 1993.
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report March 22, 1996 700+ words
...national abortion rate was 23 legal abortions per 1000 women aged 15...legal induced abortions, abortion ratios...characteristics of women who obtained...legal induced abortions, abortion ratios...characteristics of women who obtained...
- Abortion
- Reference information from: National Survey of State Laws January 1, 2008 700+ words
...definitions of legal abortions. About twenty...define an illegal abortion in terms of the...define illegal abortions without reference...instances of abortion. A few of these...Constitution protected a woman ’ s right to abortion, a novel right...
