Archive: Mon Dec 2019

PDF Zeina Fathallah Abstract This study explores the intersectional effects of criminalization on women’s access to safe abortion in Lebanon. Building on 119 original interviews with women who have had an abortion and physicians who offer safe…

PDF Irene Capelli Abstract Abortion in Morocco is illegal except to safeguard a woman’s life or health. Morocco has put some sexual and reproductive health policies into motion that are in line with the standards defined by the World Health…

 PDF Sarrah Shahawy Abstract Abortion remains a highly debated topic in women’s health in the Middle East and specifically in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT), where it is illegal in most cases. Abortion access is challenging and…

 PDF Ayse Dayi Abstract Through focusing on the neoliberal “Health Transformation Programme” launched in 2003 in Turkey, I show how reproductive law can be modified by neoliberal mechanisms that are implemented with neoconservative policies…

PDF Irene Maffi and Malika Affes Abstract In this article, we explore the effects that Tunisia’s post-revolutionary democratization process has had on the right to abortion, drawing on ethnographic material, interviews, and medical files that we…

PDF Ana Cristina González-Vélez, Carolina Melo-Arévalo, and Juliana Martínez-Londoño Abstract The two main legal models governing abortion provision, indications for abortion and time limits on the number of weeks of pregnancy, both limit…