Tag: Abortion

A new article on Self-Managed Abortions in Africa has been published in the Health and Human Rights Journal. The article argues that the region’s articulation of the rights to dignity, freedom from cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, and to nondiscrimination, among others, provides solid grounds for decriminalization, both concerning individuals who need abortions and concerning […]

How can WHO abortion care guidelines be used in countries? These five stories outline inspiring and captivating examples of how the implementation of evidence-based recommendations, coupled with deep knowledge of the local context, have resulted in innovative and locally relevant abortion programmes, which have improved equitable access to comprehensive abortion care that is safe, timely, […]

In August 2022, Share-Net Colombia’s Community of Practice on IVE & Abortion revised the study Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion by Income, Region, and Legal Status of Abortion: Estimates of a Comprehensive model for 1990-2019 from the Guttmacher Institute, designing a comprehensive infographic as a knowledge translation product.

About: On June 24, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade and thus removed constitutional protection for abortion rights in the country. This decision will hurt millions of people – especially those who already face discriminatory obstacles to health care. In response, we recorded this episode of the SRHM Podcast to […]

The Guttmacher Institute, the World Health Organization and the UN’s Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) have released the first-ever model-based estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion rates for 150 countries, highlighting major disparities in access to sexual and reproductive health care. The study, published in BMJ Global Health, analyzes rates from 2015 to 2019, with the aim of […]

This guide by the IPFF is designed to help organizations review communications materials that include messages about abortion. It includes some basic information about abortion and related issues, and checklists to review and improve abortion messaging. This guide can also be used to inform the development of new materials that include abortion messaging. It can […]

The World Health Organisation have launched a new abortion care guideline. The objective of this guideline is to present the complete set of all WHO recommendations and best practice statements relating to abortion. While legal, regulatory, policy and service-delivery contexts may vary from country to country, the recommendations and best practices described in this document […]

Humanitarian settings are characterised by limited access to comprehensive abortion care. At the same time, humanitarian settings can increase the vulnerability of women and girls to unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions. Humanitarian actors and health care providers can play important roles in ensuring the availability and accessibility of abortion-related care. This study explores health care […]

This article by Pizzarossa and Nandagiri (2021) argues that within self-managed abortion (SMA) research, advocacy and policy, without losing focusing on the “self”, it is important to expand our focus on “management”. Introduction Self-managed abortion (SMA) is not a new phenomenon but occurs across histories1 and social and legal contexts,2 utilising a range of methods.1 SMA is broadly […]