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Advocacy for access to safe legal abortion: Similarities in the impact of abortion’s illegality on women’s health and health care in Pernambuco, Bahia, Paraíba, Mato Grosso do Sul e Rio de Janeiro

This document gives a summary analysis of primary and secondary data documenting unsafe abortion and the impact of the criminalization of abortion on women's lives and health and on health services in 5 Brazilian states: Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Bahía, Pernambuco, and Paraíba.

Authors: Gilberta S. Soares, Maria Beatriz Galli and Ana Paula de A.L. Viana

Year: 2011

Languages: English

Regions: Caribbean, Latin America

Countries: Brazil

Topics: Human Rights, Laws & Policies, Postabortion Care (PAC), Reproductive Rights, Stigma, Youth

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