کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6239520 1279000 2014 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A review of abortion laws in Western-European countries. A cross-national comparison of legal developments between 1960 and 2010
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بررسی قوانین سقط جنین در کشورهای اروپای غربی. یک مقایسه بینالمللی از تحولات قانونی بین سالهای 1960 تا 2010
کلمات کلیدی
سقط جنین، وضعیت حقوقی، اصلاحات درمانی، سیاست های برنامه ریزی خانواده،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Cross-national comparison of long-term legal developments in Western European abortion laws.
- Comparative classification of Western European abortion laws and relevant procedural barriers.
- Abortion laws have become more permissive, but barriers and limitations do remain even under the most permissive laws.

The extent to which women have had access to legal abortions has changed dramatically in Western-Europe between 1960 and 2010. In most countries, abortion laws developed from completely banning abortion to allowing its availability on request. Both the timing and the substance of the various legal developments differed dramatically between countries. Existing comparative studies on abortion laws in Western-European countries lack detail, usually focus either on first-trimester abortions or second trimester abortions, cover a limited time-span and are sometimes inconsistent with one another. Combining information from various primary and secondary sources, we show how and when the conditions for legally obtaining abortion during the entire gestation period in 20 major Western-European countries have changed between 1960 and 2010. We also construct a cross-nationally comparable classification of procedural barriers that limit abortion access. Our cross-national comparison shows that Western-Europe witnessed a general trend towards decreased restrictiveness of abortion laws. However, legal approaches to regulating abortion are highly different in detail. Abortion access remains limited, sometimes even in countries where abortion is legally available without restrictions relating to reasons.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Health Policy - Volume 118, Issue 1, October 2014, Pages 95-104
نویسندگان
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