Trends in intentional pregnancy terminations

Women are provided with special protection during pregnancy, and work in all jobs that endanger their health and pregnancy is forbidden.

The current approach of providing iron folate supplements during pregnancy has had limited impact on anaemia rates during pregnancy, owing to problems in distribution.

Examples of measures to safeguard the health of women and children are the minimization of chemical exposures before conception and through gestation, infancy, childhood and adolescence.

Under the Law on conditions and procedure for the termination of pregnancy, the request for pregnancy termination will be respected if the pregnancy had not passed 10 weeks.

FBiH Law on Conditions of Termination of Pregnancy

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Table 12.1.

Considerable changes have taken place in monitoring of pregnancies.

If there are medical indications threatening the life of the pregnant woman, the termination is performed regardless of the stage, with the woman's consent.

Pregnancy and maternity leave do not affect the security of employment because the test for pregnancy upon employment is forbidden by law, that is, it is forbidden by law to fire women because of pregnancy and maternity leave since that poses a serious offence.

In BiH, abortion is legalized and, in accordance with the Law on conditions of pregnancy termination, termination of pregnancy is done at the request of the pregnant woman.

In BiH, abortion is legalized and, in accordance with the Law on conditions of pregnancy termination, termination of pregnancy is done at the request of the pregnant woman.

Women have the right to pregnancy and maternity leave of 70 calendar days prior to the expected date of birth determined by the doctor.

Out of the women who were interviewed, 71 had terminated their pregnancy during the gestation period of 37 and 40 weeks.

(a) where the continued pregnancy endangers the woman's life

(b) where it constitutes a serious threat to her physical health

(c) where it constitutes a serious threat to her mental health

Some 2,000 women die of pregnancy complications each year.

Babies whose mothers did not eat anise during pregnancy showed a reaction that translated roughly as yuck.

At the time of pregnancy, birth, and childcare, a woman has the right to maternity leave in the duration of one straight year.

It is the woman who takes responsibility for conception and for the subsequent upbringing of children.

Severe malnutrition and the absence of prenatal care during pregnancy put both mother and child at serious risk. Spending 3.9 billion on family planning and maternal health initiatives, such as provision of emergency contraception in sub Saharan Africa and South Asia, could avert 1.4 million infant deaths and 142,000 pregnancy related deaths in women.

Women have the right to pregnancy and maternity leave of 140 calendar days.

Intentional terminations performed on adolescents (15 to 19 years of age)

It was therefore important to help poor families during pregnancy and the early years of life and to intensify efforts to provide universal early education in the poorest sectors and from an increasingly early age.

An addition, one in six Afghan women dies in childbirth due to complications during pregnancy.

The number of intentional pregnancy terminations continues to rise in Spain in absolute terms.

Women who have terminated a pregnancy through abortion are in critical need of family planning services.

In 1991, 41,910 intentional terminations were performed, and 47,832 in 1994.

During pregnancy and feeding of a child, women can be reassigned to another job if this would be in the interest of their health condition as determined by an authorized physician.

While recognizing the need to improve health care services for mothers and children, he emphasized that life began at conception and that the unborn child must be protected at every stage of the pregnancy.

Single women are entitled to pregnancy supporting techniques at the instructions of specialized doctors.

Every 30 minutes, a woman in Afghanistan dies from pregnancy related causes.

Night work is forbidden for pregnant women, starting with their sixth month of pregnancy, as well as for workers younger than 18.

The termination of pregnancy in cases of pregnant women older than 14 cannot be conducted without her consent.

Women are provided with a special protection during pregnancy and are forbidden to work at all jobs that might be adverse for health or endanger her pregnancy.

(b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances

Also important to this theme is the Government's decision to face the debate on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.

In one experiment, a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juice during their third trimester of pregnancy, while another group of pregnant women drank only water.

A father has the right to be granted additional parental leave of fourteen calendar days during the pregnancy leave or maternity leave of the mother or within two months after the birth of the child.

Some of the effects of malnutrition during pregnancy were immediately apparent in higher rates of stillbirths, birth defects, low birth weights and infant mortality.

Some of those pregnancies did not come to giving birth, they either self terminated or were terminated.

It also recommends that Panamanian women who are pregnant as a result of rape should be granted the opportunity to seek termination of such pregnancies.

The absolute risk of maternal death during pregnancy and the puerperium remains very small, being 1 in 8,423 confinements in the triennium 1997 1999.