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Nigeria's criminal law system is divided between the northern and southern states of Nigeria. The Criminal Code is currently enforced in southern states. The abortion laws of the Criminal Code are expressed within sections 228, 229, and 230. [6] Section 228 states that any doctor providing a miscarriage to a woman is guilty of a felony and up ...
Flyers advertising illegal abortion clinics in Bloemfontein, South Africa. In Africa, abortion is subject to various national abortion laws. Most women in Africa live in countries with restrictive laws. Most countries in Africa are parties to the African Union's Maputo Protocol, the only international treaty that defines a right to abortion.
The CDC or Guttmacher estimates do not account for medical abortions outside a clinic. [1] Some analysts have estimated that the cumulative number of abortions in the United States may have reached a hundred million [2] and that up to two million abortions occur annually. [3]
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Title translation: "Abortion induced by either self-taught midwife or obstetrician not only maims the woman, but also often leads to death." An unsafe abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by people lacking the necessary skills, or in an environment lacking minimal medical standards, or both. [1] An unsafe abortion is a life-threatening ...
Abortion providers in liberal states are expecting a deluge of patients from states where the procedure will now be illegal. Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade as a part of its ...
At least 21 states use public funds to support anti-abortion clinics, which have grown into a billion-dollar industry
11 states make it illegal to obstruct the entrance to a clinic: California, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington. Six states prohibit making threats toward a clinic's staff or patients: California, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin. Two states, Maine and ...