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  2. Abortion in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Throughout history, Nigeria's abortion laws have mobilized several groups and movements with opposing missions regarding the liberalization of abortion laws and the promotion of women's rights. In the 1972 conference of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), the first attempts were made to reform abortion laws in Nigeria. However, a lack of ...

  3. Abortion in Africa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Legal protection of access to abortion - Wikipedia

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    The Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, 2017 prohibits protesting, sidewalk counseling, intimidation, physical interference, and recording or photographing patients and employees within buffer zones. [15] Quebec: 50-metre fixed buffer zone around any clinic, hospital or drugstore that perform abortions. It prohibits interfering with the ...

  5. Set 50 Years Ago, ‘The Janes’ Shows the Horror of Abortion ...

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  6. Doctors who worked before Roe v. Wade speak out: ‘Many women ...

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    Doctors who practiced when abortion was illegal. One is Dr. Warren Hern, founder of the Boulder Abortion Clinic. Hern, who graduated from medical school in 1965, tells Yahoo Life that he saw the ...

  7. Arizona’s abortion ban, and the power arbitrarily exercised by Ronan, prevented her from having a procedure she desperately needed, and made an already agonizing ordeal even worse.

  8. Timeline of reproductive rights legislation - Wikipedia

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    As the infrastructure was not in place for these new requirements, the two abortion clinics operating in Kentucky had to shut down, making abortion de facto illegal in the state. In response, abortion-rights activists sued the state to challenge the law, with Planned Parenthood and the ACLU stating that the law unconstitutionally bans abortion ...

  9. Unsafe abortion - Wikipedia

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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 ...