This four-page fact sheet describes the positive impact of Ipas’s global work to enhance women’s reproductive rights and their ability to prevent unintended pregnancy and to obtain safe abortion care. It outlines Ipas’s recent achievements in the following areas: training and support to health systems; partnering with community-based organizations, ministries of health and other health organizations; advocating for the liberalization of abortion laws and improved abortion policies; and conducting policy- and program-relevant research on abortion.
La objeción de conciencia a la prestación de servicios de aborto ha pasado a ser un tema polémico en muchos paÃses latinoamericanos. A falta de reglamentación y supervisión adecuada, los prestadores de servicios de salud cada vez más están solicitando objeción de conciencia para evitar proporcionar servicios de aborto a las mujeres, a los cuales tienen derecho por ley. Este informe explica cómo y porque los Estados deben continuar haciendo más estricta la reglamentación sobre objeción de conciencia, para asegurar que los derechos de las mujeres no se vean comprometidos por negativas sistemáticas por parte del personal de salud a proporcionarles servicios de aborto.
For women who want to end their pregnancies, laws that allow only medical doctors to provide abortion are real barriers. Abortion can safely be provided by nurses, midwives, paramedical personnel and other midlevel providers. Women who have correct information can take pills to end a pregnancy safely outside a health facility. However, many abortion laws require the involvement of one or more medical doctors. These laws criminalize women and other health professionals who end pregnancies safely without a doctor. Under doctor-only laws, health systems—particularly in the global south—cannot train enough abortion providers to make abortion accessible to all women. Doctor-only laws discriminate against women who belong to vulnerable and disadvantaged groups and who are least likely to have access to medical doctors. Lawmakers need not designate who can provide abortion in the law. Documents such as national health standards and guidelines are better suited to clarify who are authorized providers. This publication explains how Standards and Guidelines, enacted by the Ministry of Health and ideally updated every few years, can reflect the latest scientific evidence in abortion care.
This publication supplements Abortion care for young women: A training toolkit. It modifies six values clarification and attitude transformation activities to focus specifically on young women and abortion.
This publication supplements Abortion care for young women: A training toolkit (Ipas, 2013). It modifies six values clarification and attitude transformation activities to focus specifically on young women and abortion.
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