‘This Is Real Misery’: Experiences of Women Denied Legal Abortion in Tunisia

‘This Is Real Misery’: Experiences of Women Denied Legal Abortion in Tunisia

Barriers to accessing legal abortion services in Tunisia are increasing, despite a liberal abortion law, and women are often denied wanted legal abortion services. In this paper, we seek to explore the reasons for abortion denial and whether these reasons had a legal or medical basis. We also identify barriers women faced in accessing abortion and make recommendations for improved access to qua...

‘I felt the world crash down on me’: Women’s experiences being denied legal abortion in Colombia

BACKGROUND In 2006, Colombia's constitutional court overturned a complete ban on abortion, liberalizing the procedure. Despite a relatively liberal new law, women still struggle to access safe and legal abortion services. We aimed to understand why women are denied services in Colombia, and what factors determine if and how they ultimately terminate pregnancies. METHODS We recruited women den...

Denial of abortion in legal settings

BACKGROUND Factors such as poverty, stigma, lack of knowledge about the legal status of abortion, and geographical distance from a provider may prevent women from accessing safe abortion services, even where abortion is legal. Data on the consequences of abortion denial outside of the US, however, are scarce. METHODS In this article we present data from studies among women seeking legal abort...

Legal Abortion?

Legal Aspects of Abortion

Take the work entitled Medical Ethics, published in 1957 under the editorship of Dr. Maurice Davidson. The chapter on abortion is contributed by Dr. F. W. Roques, and the exposition of the law by this eminent obstetric surgeon is truly astonishingDr. Roques sets out the provision in the Act of 1861 which makes the procurement of abortion a felony, and states: "It must be clearly understood that...