Abortion is not legal, unless it is for medical purposes.

Under Indonesian law, abortion conducted outside recognized medical facilities is illegal.

(l) WHO Scientific Group Meeting on Medical Methods for Inducing Abortion, Geneva, April 1994

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.

She expressed concern that although abortion was legal, cultural attitudes and resistance on the part of the medical community often made it difficult for women to obtain legal, professional abortion services.

Abortion Abortion is illegal in Pakistan.

Abortion

ABORTION

Abortions in Tajikistan are permitted and are legal. Abortion is regarded as unlawful when it is performed outside the walls of a medical facility.

She stressed that the criminalization of abortion forced women to seek clandestine abortions and prevented them from seeking medical care in case of complications.

340. The Committee recommends that the Government of Peru review its law on abortion and ensure that women have access to full and complete health services, which include safe abortion, and to emergency medical attention when complications arise from abortions.

H. Abortion

2.5.2 Abortion

The Anti Abortion Act puts the State and local government administrative organs under an obligation to provide social, legal and medical care to pregnant women.

57.1 percent of the girls have anemia 23 percent of the adolescent female population suffer chronic energy deficiency 61 percent have unwanted pregnancies, with 12 percent of them undergoing abortion and 70 percent performing the abortion themselves 10 percent assisted by traditional helpers to perform the abortion, but only 7 percent by making use of professional medical assistance

An abortion could be performed only within 72 hours from the time a woman gave her consent and had been warned about its potential medical consequences.

Subject matter Abortion

No abortion, understand?

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.

Evolution of abortion rate.

Doctors had an obligation to provide women with oral and written information about the moral features and possible medical complications of abortion, and about ways of keeping the child.

Abortion, contraception and other matters

phenomena cancer, abortion, congenital anomalies,

Implementation of this law should reduce the practice of unsafe abortion and thus reduce abortion related mortality.

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

36. Abortion prevention and the treatment of complications resulting from abortion is a sensitive issue in most countries.

Are you for or against abortion?

Do you support or oppose abortion?

(c) The high rate of abortion

The proposed reforms continue to define abortion as a punishable offence, but maintain the important exception for therapeutic abortion.

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.

4. Family planning artificial insemination and abortion

Impact of abortion on lower fertility rate.

4 Unsafe abortion is defined as a procedure for terminating an unwanted pregnancy that is performed by persons lacking the necessary skills and or in an environment lacking the minimal medical standards (based on World Health Organization, The prevention and management of unsafe abortion , report of a Technical Working Group, Geneva, April 1992 (WHO MSM 92.5)).

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.

Therapeutic abortion is a recognized right of women.

She's got 100 to pay for an abortion.

The Programme of Action goes on to stress that in circumstances where abortion is not against the law, such abortion should be safe.

When is abortion regarded as murder of the foetus?

The man who's paying you for Delores Purdy's abortion.

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.

Ms. Beydoun (Lebanon) said that no studies existed on abortion, and the Government of Lebanon undoubtedly needed to conduct such studies, particularly on clandestine abortion.

It did not recognize abortion as a method of family planning and did not support the inclusion of abortion in the Organization's reproductive health assistance.

The Anti Abortion Act excludes economic or social reasons for artificial abortions, but specifies certain medical reasons (threat to life or a serious threat to the health of the mother serious and irreversible damage to the foetus).

Three documents have been issued and implemented on the treatment of women who arrive at health units with abortion complications or who require post abortion care.