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Bangladesh is still governed by the penal code from 1860, where induced abortion is illegal unless the woman is in danger. [1] [2] Historically, abortion has been prevalent, especially during the years following the Bangladesh Liberation War. For example, in 1972, the law allowed for abortion for those women who has been raped during the war. [2]
Ipas is an international, non-governmental organization that seeks to increase access to safe abortions and contraception. To this end the organization informs women how to obtain safe and legal abortions and trains relevant partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on how to provide and advocate for these.
Enacted on November 10, 2000, this law was struck down by U.S. district judge Edward Harrington soon afterward because he felt there was an unacceptable discrepancy in the floating buffer zone being applied to anti-abortion protesters but exempted from clinic workers. [29] The law was restored in August 2001 by a federal appeals court. [30]
However, these countries vary greatly in the circumstances under which abortion was to be permitted. In 1975, the West German Supreme Court struck down a law legalizing abortion, holding that they contradict the constitution's human rights guarantees. In 1976, a law was adopted which enabled abortions up to 12 weeks.
The academy was founded in March 2011 by the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court, Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, after consultation with former director general (Hayat Ali Shah) and former dean of the faculty (Dr. Khursheed Iqbal). The governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa established the academy with an ordinance issued on 28 December 2011.
She started her college application list last summer, right around the time the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which had made abortion legal across the U.S. for ...
But Huang, 16, said she crossed the college off her application list after Ohio enacted a near-total ban on abortion last month. "I don't want to go to school in a state where there is an abortion ...
Salma Sobhan (née Rasheda Akhtar Banu; 11 August 1937 – 30 December 2003) [1] was a Bangladeshi lawyer, academic and human rights activist. She became the first woman barrister in Pakistan in 1959. [2] A member of the law faculty of the University of Dhaka, she was a co-founder of Ain-O-Salish Kendra (ASK), a national human rights watchdog.