Countries: Mexico
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"Across Latin America, countries have made moves to lift abortion restrictions in recent years, a trend often referred to as a 'green wave,' in reference to the green bandanas carried by women protesting for abortion rights in the region" (para 20). "In the southern state of Guerrero, Marina Reyna, director of the Guerrero Association Against Violence toward Women, cautioned that challenges would persist. Her state decriminalized abortion last year, but there are 22 open investigations against women accused of ending their pregnancies. 'There is still a lot of resistance,' she said" (para 29-30).

Countries: India
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1, ABO-LAW-1

"Abortion is legal in India, but was only legalised for single women this year. It remains taboo for married women and most abortions are carried out by village 'quacks', often with long-term health consequences" (para 26).

Countries: Norway
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-PRACTICE-1

"Under certain circumstances, women and girls with disabilities continue to be subjected to involuntary medical treatment, including forced sterilization and abortion" (15).

Countries: Russia
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"If it passes, the legislation will ban 'childfree propaganda' on the internet and in the media, films and advertisements. There will be steep fines –about $4000 for individuals and $51,000 for organisations. The law is loosely worded and human rights advocates fear that even positive comments about a childfree lifestyle or public discussions on birth control or abortion could be considered a violation...Cutting back on abortion seems like an obvious strategy. Russia has one of the world’s highest abortion rates – a legacy of the Soviet era, when it was the principal means of birth control. Now the government is beginning to actively discourage abortion. A fifth of abortions are...more

Countries: China
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"infertility affects 18 percent of couples in China, compared with a global average of around 15 percent. Researchers cite several factors, including the fact that Chinese couples often wait until later to have children and the common use of abortions, which experts have said could affect fertility" (para 24).

Countries: South Korea
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"In a similar case in 2021, the official said, the Supreme Court upheld a murder conviction for a doctor who performed an abortion procedure in 2019 to terminate a 34-week-old fetus who was obviously alive and crying" (para 4). "But it won’t happen any time soon, said a government official who declined to be named. In addition to administrative complexity regarding the approval process, politics will likely slow it further, given the sensitivity of the issue, the official added. When the issue came to light following the court ruling, many religious groups vehemently protested the decision and increased political pressure on the authorities, a major factor behind the Assembly’s inaction...more

Countries: Serbia
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"[A]bortion [is continually being used] as a contraceptive method, in particular among women over 40 years of age" (14).

Countries: D R Congo
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"[A]bortion [is not legalized] in cases of rape, incest, severe fetal impairment and risk to the health or life of the pregnant woman[. Women do not have] access to high-quality post-abortion care, especially for cases in which complications arise from unsafe abortions, in line with the Maputo Protocol" (12).

Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"[The] national health development plan (2006–2015) and the health sector transition plan (2015–2017) [have] several actions to support women... [These actions include p]roviding free induced abortions" (37).

Countries: China
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-2, ABO-PRACTICE-1

"'I fear that in the short term, China will follow other countries and restrict women’s access to abortion and contraception as a way to force women to have more children. Ultimately, these policies will backfire and fail, but they could increase repression and crackdowns on feminist politics,' Gallagher said" (para. 24).

Countries: United States
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"The national lack of abortion access is also an emergency, where many are being denied abortion care and are forced to carry pregnancies to term" (para 20). Denial of abortion may indicate negative societal perception of abortion (ET - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Kazakhstan
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee notes the 2014 amendments to the law on domestic violence of 2009 that provide for restraining and protection orders and social assistance to victims of domestic violence. It also takes note of the State party’s intention to adopt the bill on countering domestic violence and to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. However, the Committee notes with concern the following: The subjection of women with disabilities, in particular those living in institutions, to forced sterilization and forced abortion, police violence against women in prostitution, the mandatory gender reassignment surgery for transgender women for the purpose of legal gender...more

Countries: Turkmenistan
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2, ABO-PRACTICE-1

"Patriarchal culture, harmful traditions, government inaction and absence of public education and communication drive awareness of reproductive and sexual health underground. The public in Turkmenistan see abortion as something deeply immoral so women prefer to keep silent. This also applies to the endemic domestic violence in the country. Women and girls are taught that it is a private matter that should not be discussed in public but heroically endured in silence" (para.10).

Countries: Bhutan
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1, AFE-PRACTICE-1

" Attitudes toward abortion may be traced to the tenets of the Buddhist religion, which has otherwise played a key role in many facets of gender parity, given that its tradition and values view men and women as equal. Regarding participation in the public sphere, two factors are broadly to blame, the first being a historical lack of education for women. In the 1950s and ’60s, when Bhutan began to prioritize national development and education, more boys than girls were sent to India for formal learning—a disparity that stemmed not from gender discrimination but rather from fears about girls’ safety during the long journey to school" (para.5).more

Countries: Azerbaijan
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"To reduce the cases of termination of unwanted pregnancy, it is important to use and list the medicine that do not harm the body of a woman (and particular, the representatives of the groups in need of social protection and the groups of risks" (27).