Background With the improvement of ultrasound technology, the likelihood of detection of
major fetal structural anomalies in mid‐pregnancy has increased considerably. Upon the …

Objective Many reasons inform women's reproductive decision-making. This paper aims to
present the reasons women give for obtaining induced abortions in 14 countries. Study …

Abortion is a common and essential reproductive healthcare procedure experienced by
approximately one third of women at some time in their life. Abortion is also commonly …

Context Recent years have seen the introduction of state bills seeking to ban abortions after
20 weeks, but little empirical data exist on who is affected when such bans become law …

The legal regulation of abortion by gestational age, or length of pregnancy, is a relatively
undertheorized dimension of abortion and human rights. Yet struggles over time in abortion …

Context Except in the presence of significant medical indications, the legal limit for abortion
in Great Britain is 24 weeks' gestation. Nevertheless, abortion for nonmedical reasons is not …

Objective To evaluate delays before first-or second-trimester legal abortion and barriers to
care in Colombia. Methods A secondary analysis was undertaken of data from a prospective …

Gestational limits on abortion are often seen as a condition for decriminalisation. Focusing
on the final reports of three institutional law reform inquiries into abortion in Australia, this …

Objectives: Restrictive policies that limit access to abortion often lead women to seek
services abroad. We present results from an exploratory study aimed at documenting the …

Background. Although the vast majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, still
10–15% of terminations of pregnancies have taken place in the second trimester period …