The legal restrictions that establish the circumstances under which a woman can legally terminate a pregnancy. Five possible degrees of restrictiveness of abortion laws can exist for a given country CRLP, :. The purpose of this indicator is to measure the degree to which a woman has access to safe abortion care and postabortion care in a given country. Various policies and the manner in which they are implemented, for example, may be more critical factors than the law s.
A recent report by Human Rights Watch revealed that, in practice, even when those exceptions apply, many women and girls are still denied abortions, putting their lives and health at risk. Barriers include arbitrary gestational limits imposed by health facilities and lack of access to various medical and surgical abortion methods, including misoprostol pills.
The stigma of criminalization and mistreatment by health professionals affects all women seeking abortions, even legal ones. Medical facilities lack effective referral systems to assist women when doctors invoke conscientious objection, causing excessive burdens and delays. This sends many who would be entitled to a legal abortion to resort instead to unsafe, clandestine procedures.
Criminalization of abortion entrenches inequalities. Vulnerable groups, including people living in poverty or in rural areas, and adolescents -- are the most likely to be driven to clandestine, unsafe, abortions.
No international legal instrument explicitly references the right to have an abortion. However, authoritative interpretations of human rights treaties ratified by Argentina, including by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the UN Committee Against Torture and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, have long established that highly restrictive abortion laws violate the human rights of women and girls, including their rights to life, to health, and not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
Forcing a woman or a girl to continue a pregnancy in cases such as when the fetus has serious complications incompatible with life outside of the womb or the pregnancy was the result of rape is a form of inhuman and degrading treatment.
Criminalizing abortion can force pregnant persons to complete a pregnancy, imposing overwhelming burdens that is incompatible with respect for their human rights. Access to abortion is also a critical public health issue.
In , the National Health Ministry estimated that between , to , abortions are performed each year in Argentina. In , public hospitals admitted around 40, women and girls for abortion complications. Ipas President and CEO Anu Kumar says the global movement for abortion rights has made great progress since the International Conference on Population and Development—and we must keep fighting. Making abortion legal. Strengthening local and global movements for abortion rights.
Unpacking the Texas abortion ban: White supremacy in the anti-rights movement. Both have spoken and written about how white supremacy drives the anti-abortion, anti-rights movement. In this virtual event, they touch on various examples, such as U. Read More. Ending criminal abortion laws When abortion is a crime, women suffer—along with their families and communities. Few people realize that women actually go to jail in countries where abortion is illegal.
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