Was a woman who was pregnant as a result of a rape allowed to have an abortion?

In 1989 the Ministry of Health issued standards of post abortion care.

Therapeutic abortion is a recognized right of women.

Ms. Heather Latu (Samoa) said that the country's laws on abortion had not kept up with the actual situation.

The Committee's general comments might be a useful tool in expediting adoption of the proposed Abortion Act.

Bisean compares the abortions policies practiced by the countries in South East Asia and finds that Singapore and Vietnam have the most flexible policies.

Five years ago I did not believe in abortion or the death penalty. I hated weapons and violence and I believed that change is made by love.

The official annual figure for hospital admissions due to abortion complications is 6,694 (Ministry of Health, 2002) however, the Ministry recognizes that abortion is underreported.

Six Latin American countries (Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Ecuador) allow therapeutic abortions under circumstances similar to Bolivia.

These compromises state that nothing in the treaties will affect Irish prerogatives on abortion, military neutrality, and taxation.

There has been a dramatic debate in East Timor over recent weeks about the provisions of the new draft penal code pertaining to abortion.

12.27 Abortion is illegal in Vanuatu and currently there are no provisions in the Penal Code for abortion in rape cases.

The criminal laws of the entity find the illegal termination of pregnancy a criminal offence (violation of the rule on abortion), which is punishable by three months to one year of prison.

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.

With regard to abortion, she pointed out that legal abortion under the new law would be available only in specific circumstances, such as rape or a dangerous medical condition.

Allowing abortions only under the specific condition that a mother's life is in danger, all other circumstances would be made insufficient grounds for terminating a pregnancy, including cases of rape, incest, or fetal anomalies.

It had stated clearly and on many occasions, consistent with the International Conference on Population and Development, that it did not recognize abortion as a method of family planning or support abortion in its reproductive health assistance.

In developed countries, the routine testing of older pregnant women, combined with the availability of abortion, has significantly reduced the incidence of conditions like Down syndrome.

He enquired about the obstacles to enacting the abortion legislation proposed by a Task Force over three years earlier. Was political will lacking or was there some other reason for the inordinate delay?

The law requires all public hospitals to treat rape as an emergency and offer the victims diagnosis and treatment of injuries, exams to detect STDs and pregnancy, social and psychological support and full disclosure of the victims legal right to abort.

The Brazilian Penal Code, in Article 128, sections I and II, sets out the only cases in which an abortion is allowed by law pregnancy resulting from rape or in the cases where a woman's life is at risk.

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.

In Ukraine, for example, where many obstetricians and gynaecologists have never received HIV AIDS related counselling, doctors may immediately recommend abortion to women living with HIV when they find out they are pregnant.

In late 2013, Uruguay voted to allow early stage abortions without restriction, joining four others (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guyana, and French Guiana) along with Mexico City that have largely decriminalized abortion.

In view of the reports of forcible abortion and rape by wardens in the detention facilities and abuse of women pregnant with half Chinese babies, she urged the State party to establish an independent human rights institution to receive complaints and guarantee the protection of human rights.

In this period women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or rather ex Yugoslavia got access to all proffessions, the same salaries as men, a full year of maternity leave, legalisation of abortion, and, since 1952 the right to consentual divorce achieved on the agreement.

Ms. Luddy (Ireland) said that the Crisis Pregnancy Agency was relatively new but quite active and productive in providing access to reproductive health services for women, which covered contraception, prenatal care, pregnancy and postnatal care, but not abortion.