Abortion Abortion is illegal in Pakistan.

Of the total number of abortions, most (68.0 ) are performed in the first trimester of pregnancy (induced abortions).

Since abortion was illegal, some babies were being abandoned at birth and women were going abroad to obtain legal abortions, while in a recent case that had come to light, others had sought the services of a backstreet abortionist.

H. Abortion

2.5.2 Abortion

339. The Committee notes with concern that there is a close link between the number of abortions performed and the high maternal mortality rate, and it stresses that criminalizing abortion does not discourage abortions, but rather has the effect of making the procedure unsafe and dangerous for women.

The Committee urges the State party to review its legislation on abortion and consider exceptions to the general prohibition of abortion for cases of therapeutic abortion and when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Subject matter Abortion

It was however pro life and therefore could not recognize the right to abortion.

Namibia's Abortion and Sterilization Act (Act 2 of 1975) makes it a crime for a woman to seek an abortion, or to terminate her own pregnancy, except in very narrow circumstances.

The Anti Abortion Act excludes economic or social reasons for artificial abortions, but specifies certain medical reasons (threat to life or a serious threat to the health of the mother serious and irreversible damage to the foetus).

The United States understood that there was an international consensus that the terms reproductive health services and reproductive rights did not include abortion or constitute support, endorsement or promotion of abortion or the use of abortifacients.

In some countries, female foeticide and infanticide continued.

The number of repetitive abortions, however, has remained the same 68 of abortion patients in 1996 2001 had already had one or more abortions previously.

An abortion could be performed only within 72 hours from the time a woman gave her consent and had been warned about its potential medical consequences.

The number of officially registered abortions in 1993 was 1,208. The abortion rate in relation to the number of births in Poland is thus one of the lowest in Europe.

Choice was not a meaningful term in the abortion debate, as women did not freely choose to have an abortion, a procedure that was very dangerous to women psychologically and spiritually.

57.1 percent of the girls have anemia 23 percent of the adolescent female population suffer chronic energy deficiency 61 percent have unwanted pregnancies, with 12 percent of them undergoing abortion and 70 percent performing the abortion themselves 10 percent assisted by traditional helpers to perform the abortion, but only 7 percent by making use of professional medical assistance

Legal abortions represented 53 per cent of the total there had been some 1,900 miscarriages and a small number of illegal abortions.

She knew of no one imprisoned for having, or performing, an abortion.

Also, a Technical Rule for Humanized Assistance to Abortion is about to be published and distributed, and health professionals will be trained to provide services for women under unsafe abortion.

The United States supported the treatment of women who suffered injuries or illnesses caused by legal or illegal abortion, including post abortion care, and did not place such treatment among abortion related services.

The high rate of deaths from failed abortions was an argument for the Government not to restrict safe abortions.

Are you for or against abortion?

Do you support or oppose abortion?

(c) The high rate of abortion

36. Abortion prevention and the treatment of complications resulting from abortion is a sensitive issue in most countries.

Medically advised abortions take place in government hospitals.

When possible, legislation criminalizing abortion could be amended to remove punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion.

Abortions in Tajikistan are permitted and are legal. Abortion is regarded as unlawful when it is performed outside the walls of a medical facility.

36. A woman who aborts a foetus or is aware that another person is doing so is subjected to a custodial sentence of a maximum of two years or to community service for a period ranging from 52 to 104 days.

He emphasizes that the procedures of abortion are not regulated by the State.

She welcomed the decrease in the number of abortions the latest data showed that in 2003 there had been approximately 10,000 abortions, which represented a decrease relative to 2002.

The number of illegal abortions is unknown.

(9) The Committee notes with concern that section 235 of the Penal Code penalizes abortion even when the mother's life is in danger, and thus may encourage women to resort to unreliable and illegal abortion, with inherent risks for their life and health (Covenant, art.

340. The Committee recommends that the Government of Peru review its law on abortion and ensure that women have access to full and complete health services, which include safe abortion, and to emergency medical attention when complications arise from abortions.

Perhaps the assumption is that, as opponents of abortion sometimes say, the aborted fetus had the genetic potential to become a Beethoven or an Einstein. But, for all we know, it is the next fetus that the woman will conceive, not the one she aborted, that will turn out to be the Beethoven or Einstein.

In Viet Nam research is planned or in progress on the prevalence of reproductive tract infections the prevalence of abortion and complications resulting from it youth, premarital sexuality and abortion and the causes of maternal mortality.

The average age of women who use abortion as a method of contraception is 25 35.

3.4 The author finally claims a violation of article 7 of the Covenant in that it allows abortion which he defines as a cruel, tortuous and inhuman practice.

Complicated abortion is believed to be responsible for 15 percent of the maternal mortality rate.

Abortion could not be treated simply as a readily available after the fact method of contraception.

The number of girls under 19 who had had abortions in 2003, although up slightly, still only represented approximately 6 per cent of the number of abortions by women up to the age of 34.

4. Family planning artificial insemination and abortion

The number of abortions among teenagers represented 12.81 per cent and 13.79 per cent of total intentional terminations in 1991 and 1994 respectively.