Abortion Abortion is illegal in Pakistan.

Legal abortions represented 53 per cent of the total there had been some 1,900 miscarriages and a small number of illegal abortions.

Since abortion was illegal, some babies were being abandoned at birth and women were going abroad to obtain legal abortions, while in a recent case that had come to light, others had sought the services of a backstreet abortionist.

Of the total number of abortions, most (68.0 ) are performed in the first trimester of pregnancy (induced abortions).

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.

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.

H. Abortion

2.5.2 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.

The number of illegal abortions is unknown.

Subject matter Abortion

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

It was however pro life and therefore could not recognize the right to abortion.

The State party should liberalize its legislation and practice on abortion.

The number of repetitive abortions, however, has remained the same 68 of abortion patients in 1996 2001 had already had one or more abortions previously.

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).

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.

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.

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

339. The Committee notes with concern that there is a close link between the number of abortions performed and the high maternal mortality rate, and it stresses that criminalizing abortion does not discourage abortions, but rather has the effect of making the procedure unsafe and dangerous for women.

Articles 522 to 523 of the Code are devoted to the subject of contraceptive methods and abortion.

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

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 is not legal, unless it is for medical purposes.

(9) The Committee notes with concern that section 235 of the Penal Code penalizes abortion even when the mother's life is in danger, and thus may encourage women to resort to unreliable and illegal abortion, with inherent risks for their life and health (Covenant, art.

Namibia's Abortion and Sterilization Act (Act 2 of 1975) makes it a crime for a woman to seek an abortion, or to terminate her own pregnancy, except in very narrow circumstances.

The high rate of deaths from failed abortions was an argument for the Government not to restrict safe abortions.

Are you for or against abortion?

Do you support or oppose abortion?

(c) The high rate of abortion

The report claimed that family planning activities were relatively well developed was abortion still illegal, and if so what was the rate of unsafe abortions and what services were provided for the management of the health problems resulting from unsafe abortions?

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

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

(8) The Committee reiterates its deep concern about restrictive abortion laws in Poland, which may incite women to seek unsafe, illegal abortions, with attendant risks to their life and health.

The United States understood that there was an international consensus that the terms reproductive health services and reproductive rights did not include abortion or constitute support, endorsement or promotion of abortion or the use of abortifacients.

The collection of data about the number of abortions is very difficult because, although its characterisation as a punishable crime has been abolished by law 1609 86, women undergoing an abortion continue to ask for the implementation of medical secrecy even in public obstetrical clinics.

In some countries, female foeticide and infanticide continued.

36. A woman who aborts a foetus or is aware that another person is doing so is subjected to a custodial sentence of a maximum of two years or to community service for a period ranging from 52 to 104 days.

The problem of illegal abortion in Paraguay was tackled from a prevention perspective.

Currently, 44 Legal Abortion Services exist throughout the five regions of the country.

Only 0.3 of abortions are performed outside treatment facilities, and they are regarded as criminal.

Choice was not a meaningful term in the abortion debate, as women did not freely choose to have an abortion, a procedure that was very dangerous to women psychologically and spiritually.

A third of the adult women who had abortions were women who already had two children which reflected the fact that, unfortunately, abortion was still used as a means of contraception.

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.

The number of officially registered abortions in 1993 was 1,208. The abortion rate in relation to the number of births in Poland is thus one of the lowest in Europe.