Abortion Abortion is illegal in Pakistan.

Abortion

We have stressed that where abortion is not against the law it should be safe.

This confirms that each individual has a right to reproductive health and access to safe abortion services. Under Indonesian law, abortion conducted outside recognized medical facilities is illegal.

With regard to abortion, she pointed out that legal abortion under the new law would be available only in specific circumstances, such as rape or a dangerous medical condition.

H. Abortion

2.5.2 Abortion

Subject matter Abortion

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The law forbids the practice of coercion or forced and violent pregnancy, as well as abortion and sterilization.

The Committee observes with concern that abortion is illegal in all cases under the law of the State party.

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The Committee recommends that the State party's legislation on abortion include other motives for performing legal abortion with a view to preventing illegal abortion.

The law did not currently provide for any circumstances under which women could legally resort to abortion. In 2001, however, a task force report had recommended repealing that section of the Criminal Code and replacing it by an Abortion Act which would make abortion lawful in certain circumstances.

Restricting access to legal abortion leads many poor women to seek abortion from unsafe providers.

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It does not consider abortion or access to abortion to be a dimension of that term.

The Ministry of Health proposed a draft law on abortion in 1996 but it was withdrawn in 1999 because a majority of Namibians were not in favour of the law. That means more work needs to be done, to sensitize the community on the danger of illegal abortion.

Since the June 2013 imposition of a more restrictive abortion law, however, abortion in Macedonia has become not only bureaucratized, but also a complicated and drawn out procedure exacerbated by the already unfavorable climate regarding the termination of pregnancy.

The legalization of abortion on request in South Africa in 1998 saw abortion related deaths drop by 91 .

When possible, legislation criminalizing abortion could be amended to remove punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion.

This excerpt was taken from the East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin (ETJL), in a post named What happens when abortion is illegal .

The original case challenging the constitutionality of the restrictive abortion law was brought by indigenous MAS deputy Patricia Mancilla (in her personal capacity).

Selection of children need not involve abortion.

In 1974, abortion was legalised in France.

The United States supported the treatment of women who suffered injuries or illnesses caused by legal or illegal abortion, including post abortion care, and did not place such treatment among abortion related services.

(Under the law, the act of undergoing, performing, or abetting an illegal abortion is punishable by a prison term of one to six years.)

12.27 Abortion is illegal in Vanuatu and currently there are no provisions in the Penal Code for abortion in rape cases.

And in some countries, lack of contraceptive supplies and the availability of abortion services led to exceedingly high rates of abortion.

The Austrian law adds to that a possibility of terminating an auction by a procuring entity if serious reasons objectively justify ( abortion of the auction ).

In El Salvador, abortion is prohibited without exception.

Its opinion on abortion is nevertheless quite controversial.

Therapeutic abortion is a recognized right of women.

It is difficult for the Nicaraguan Government to obtain accurate data on the incidence of abortion and of mortality due to abortion.

The Committee urges the State party to review its legislation on abortion and consider exceptions to the general prohibition of abortion for cases of therapeutic abortion and when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Before June 2013, Macedonia had a rather liberal abortion law. Women could undergo the surgical intervention without being subjected to a mandatory waiting period and counselling.

(29) The Committee notes with concern that abortion is still a criminal offence under Moroccan law unless it is carried out to save the mother's life.

And I won t even get into the abortion debate.

However, the issue of abortion was barely touched upon.

That is why the expression safe abortion is ambiguous.

That I'm getting an abortion, and you're the father.

Although a majority of countries in Africa and Latin America have laws prohibiting abortion in most circumstances, official bans do not prevent high abortion rates.

By the proposed article 144, abortion is crime and those who perform abortion will be punished with imprisonment terms ranging from 2 and 8 years.

The official annual figure for hospital admissions due to abortion complications is 6,694 (Ministry of Health, 2002) however, the Ministry recognizes that abortion is underreported.