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Adapting to Norms at the United Nations: the Abortion-Rights and Anti-Abortion Networks
… I compare the strategies and influence of the abortion-rights and anti-abortion movements over time at the UN, particularly through the International Conferences on Population and Development, and trace how each movement has adjusted its strategies to accommodate the normative context it has …
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Decision making and abortion methods
Introduction: This thesis investigates abortion service providers' adequacy to facilitate women's choices to have either a medical or surgical abortion. Both the medical and surgical methods of abortion are effective procedures to terminate unwanted pregnancies in early gestation. Provided there is …
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Covert Abortion Networks: How Civil Society Subverts the State and Provides Abortion, No Matter What
… dissertation investigates the ability of Covert Abortion Networks (CANs) to provide abortion access in the face of legal threats and the erosion of the access environment. CANs operate across a variety of legal and practical contexts to help people access abortions, no matter what. A common …
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Social Support Regarding Abortion Decision and Mental Health Outcomes at Time of Seeking Abortion Services
… support, in the mental health of people seeking abortion services. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between social support regarding abortion decision and mental health outcomes at the time of seeking abortion. Methods: We analyzed data from a cross-sectional survey …
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What do abortion policies accomplish? : understanding how abortion laws and court cases affect public opinion
Abortion is a loaded, controversial, and divisive sociocultural and political term, concept, and debate. Yet little empirical research has been conducted to examine what effects abortion rights legislation and court cases have had on the public and our society. After analyzing a broad overview of …
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Abortion services in South Africa : challenges and barriers to safe abortion care : health care providers' perspectives
Unsafe abortion is a preventable phenomenon and continues to be a major public health problem in many countries especially in the developing world. Despite abortion being legally available in South Africa after a change in legislation in 1996, barriers to accessing safe abortion services continue …
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Denominational Differences in Attitude Toward Abortion
… a long "conspiracy of silence" on the subject of abortion, and attitude toward abortion has come to demand a great deal of public attention. The year 1967 marked the first changes in the abortion-prohibition laws of the United States in three-quarters of a century. And in early 1973, the United …
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Media Frames and Abortion Issue Polarization
<p>The abortion issue is one of the most polarizing topics within the public and media sphere. How the media chooses to frame the abortion debate may influence public opinion and individual reactions. Specifically, articles that use incongruent abortion frames (pro-life/pro-abortion & …
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Strengthening medical abortion in South Africa
Access to safe, legal abortion services is an important public health measure to address morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortion. To expand access and strengthen medical abortion provision in South Africa, evidence is needed on the safety, effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of task …
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A Descriptive Study of Saline Abortion Patients
… describe the psychological responses of saline abortion patients and the nurses who provided for their care. The study utilized a sample composed of five unmarried women between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one years who were seeking their first abortion, and of seventeen nurses who provided …
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Slavery and abortion: the paradox of american liberalism
… for over 200 years. It is my contention that abortion is another illiberal institution that is being promoted by the paradox of liberalism. With the use of John Rawls theory of distributive justice abortion can be eradicated from American society while upholding the American liberal …
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Harm Reduction of Unsafe Abortion in Latin America
Unsafe abortion is one of the major causes of maternal morbidity and mortality in the developing world. Most unsafe abortions occur where abortion is legally restricted. Like many Latin American countries, Argentina prohibits abortion in most circumstances, and maternal mortality from unsafe …
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Policy Formation and Implementation in the Abortion Field
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Reproductive Injustice: Abortion Restrictions and Maternal Mortality Rates
… connection between maternal mortality rates and abortion restrictions from a reproductive injustice perspective, integrating the theory of necropolitics. Using a time-series cross-sectional analysis of all 50 U.S. states from 2009 to 2019, this study highlights the impact of restrictive abortion …
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Utilization of abortion services: a local level analysis
Utilization rates of an abortion provider located in Roanoke, Virginia were compared with the national abortion rates. This study also examined the barriers that women must overcome in order to obtain abortion services. Green's PRECEDE model of health care behavior was used as a framework for the …
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