where abortion is legal and widely available but contraceptive use is high; in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, the rate is below 10 per 1000 women aged 15 to 44 years. In contrast, in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, where abortion...
A divide between abortion-rights activists over whether to include restrictions regarding the viability of the fetus on planned state ballot measures is roiling the movement.
Some reproductive rights groups advocating for versions of a more permissive ballot measure with a viability clause raised concerns that anti-abortion forces would attack proposals without one by saying it was an attempt to legalize abortion “up until birth” or “aborti...
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Argentina, for example, recently became the largest Latin American country to legalize abortion (Booth 2021). Pressure for this legal change built for years because, despite a contraceptive prevalence rate of 81.3% and a total fertility rate of 2.2, the country still ranked 82nd in the world ...
*Here’s bipartisanship to protect LGBTQ rights.The Senate voted yesterday to legalize same-sex marriage, which is already legal countrywide, but needed a law to protect it from the dark intentions of Clarence Thomas, who alluded in the abortion-bill hearings to gay rights being in danger as...
(among Nordic countries) for gender equity. They did not legalize abortion because most of their population would not support it. They re-introduced free public education to everyone from primary school through university. I don’t recall Senator Sanders accomplishing anything like that. See the...
In a small country, 50% of pregnancies end with abortion, and the government would like to reduce this rate. The only way to do this, legally and financially, is to increase funding for a family-planning organization that provides birth control and other medical services, including abortion. ...
The only way your patient will live is if you perform the abortion. Will you do it?” How does the possibly leftist, but maybe not, interviewer want you to answer that one? Then possibly the dumbest kid in the program just coasted into what I was told was the highly desirable NYU ...
Some reproductive rights groups advocating for versions of a more permissive ballot measure with a viability clause raised concerns that anti-abortion forces would attack proposals without one by saying it was an attempt to legalize abortion “up until birth” or “abortion on demand,” term...