Lack of abortion care is a threat to women's health in Latin America

Unsafe abortion is a serious public health problem and poses a particular risk to women's health—especially in countries where abortion is ...

Lack of abortion care is a threat to women's health in Latin America. BMJ. 2024 Nov 18:387:q2530. doi: 10.1136/bmj.q2530. Authors. Mercedes Colomar , ...

Lack of abortion care is a threat to women's health in Latin America ...

Lack of abortion care is a threat to women's health in Latin America, warn experts in The BMJ today, in one of a series of articles being ...

Lack of abortion care is a threat to women's health in Latin America

Lack of abortion care is a threat to women's health in Latin America. Inequalities and restrictions to sexual and reproductive health and ...

International Human Rights Law and Abortion in Latin America

As a result, women who have abortions in El Salvador risk criminal penalties even if their life is threatened by the pregnancy. In other countries in Central ...

Abortion in Latin America And the Caribbean - Guttmacher Institute

Many women undergo unsafe. (i.e., less safe or least safe) procedures that put their well-being at risk. □. □ During 2010–2014, about one in four abortions ...

State Abortion Bans Threaten 6.7 Million Latinas

... abortion, disrupting their economic futures, and putting their health and even their lives at risk. The impact of this decision is particularly harmful for ...

Americas: Brazil can become the next country to step up to ...

... women face disinformation and barriers to access and care in health ... Peru, which only allows therapeutic abortion, has also faced threats.

Latin America and the Caribbean - Safe Abortion Action Fund

Witnessing increasing threats to women's rights and abortion access from a ... risk of unsafe abortion, and criminalisation for seeking abortion services.

How Latin American Women Can Keep Fighting for Abortion Rights ...

... risk because of the lack of access to safe abortion services went unheard. ... US: Second Trump Term a Threat to Rights in US, World.

Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru | Signs

... health care practitioners who provide safe surgical abortions in Latin America. ... abortion care to minimize these risks and to provide caring abortions. These ...

Total Abortion Bans In Latin America Risk Women's Lives

Total Abortion Bans In Latin America Risk Women's Lives. September 28 ... health care providers when dealing with obstetric complications.

Abortion Law Around the World: Progress and Pushback - PMC

... risks and disprove any link between abortion and an increased risk of breast ... risks and other considerations related to women's health during pregnancy.

Abortion as an Essential Health Service in Latin America During the ...

... risk of unwanted pregnancy and, therefore, the need for legal abortions. ... lack of adequate and timely information about abortion care ...

How, when and where? A systematic review on abortion decision ...

In other cases, women stated preferences specifically for medical abortion due to the perception of lower health risks [48, 58, 63].

To Improve Reproductive Health Care in the U.S., Look to Latin ...

With abortion access cut off or at risk in many parts of the United ... abortions there were permitted only when a pregnancy endangered a woman's ...

Clandestine Abortion in Latin America: A Clinic Profile

The apparent lack of abortion among women with moderate or high ... women and unmarried women are at particularly high risk for abortion.

Zika highlights lack of access to contraception, abortion in Latin ...

Last week, the government of El Salvador advised women to postpone pregnancy for two years to reduce the risk of serious birth defects linked to ...

Abortion - World Health Organization (WHO)

Lack of access to safe, affordable, timely and respectful abortion care, and the stigma associated with abortion, pose risks to women's physical ...

Explainer: Abortion Rights in Latin America - AS/COA

Its decision stopped penalizing women and healthcare providers for performed abortions if a pregnancy posed a risk to a woman's health, if there ...