Ligestillingsudvalget 2022-23 (2. samling)
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Ensuring a supportive legal
framework for quality abortion
care
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Presentation
Overview
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Center for Reproductive Rights
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Abortion in the United States after
Dobbs
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World’s Abortion Laws
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Comparative Law and Good
Practices
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WHO Safe Abortion Guidelines
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Q&A
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s
Health Organization
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No constitutional right to abortion
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Legal uncertainty and confusion:
providers and patients struggling to
understand the legal landscape
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1 in 3 women have lost access:
more
restrictions are coming
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Other rights are at risk:
including the
right to engage in intimate relations, decide
who to marry, and how to raise one’s family
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After Roe Fell …
Current status of access –
based on state law and court decisions on abortion
Abortion is now
illegal
in 12
states
Abortion is
treated with
hostility
in 14 states
Abortion will
remain legal
(for now) in 14 states
Abortion access has been
expanded
in 10 states
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Almost 60 countries
have liberalized
their abortion laws
since 1994
88 countries allow
abortion on request
or broad grounds
113 countries
maintain restrictive
laws
Only 4 countries’
laws have regressed
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World’s
Abortion
Laws
Despite some deeply worrying regression, the
global trend is towards liberalization of abortion
laws:
Decriminalization of abortion
Reform of highly restrictive laws
Expansion of time limits
Removal of access barriers (waiting periods,
mandatory counseling, third party consent)
This trends reflects human rights standards and
public health recommendations
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European
Abortion
Laws
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Comparative
Law & Good
Practices
Abortion and time limits
The majority of countries that allow abortion on request
or broad grounds, have set the time limit around 12
weeks
Increasingly countries are extending time limits:
24 weeks: Australia*, Canada, Colombia, India,
Netherlands, UK
22 weeks: Iceland, South Korea
20 weeks: New Zealand
18 weeks: Sweden
16 weeks: Austria
14 weeks: France, Romania, Spain
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Facts about
time limits
and abortion
90% of abortions take place in the first 12
weeks of pregnancy, with most done in
the first 10 weeks
Time limits can limit and delay access to
abortion
They may force some women to travel to
other countries for abortion or seek
unsafe care
Women and girls belonging to
marginalized groups are
disproportionately impacted by time
limits
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Comparative
Law & Good
Practices
Third party consent
In Europe, most countries do not require
parental consent for girls 15-17 years old:
Portugal, Norway, Spain: 16 year olds
can consent
Austria: 14 year olds can consent
Iceland: minors can consent
France, Luxembourg: emancipated
minors can consent
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Comparative
Law & Good
Practice
Decriminalization of abortion
Some countries maintain criminal
penalties for abortion outside the law
Criminalization can increase barriers in
access to care and abortion stigma
Abortion should be decriminalized for
patients, health professionals and anyone
assisting
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WHO Abortion Care Guideline
Updated in 2022 with new
guidance and
recommendations for clinical
practice or public
health policy
https://bit.ly/3Jr7s48
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Decriminalization
Recommend the full decriminalization of
abortion
Remove abortion from all criminal laws, not
apply other criminal offences, and ensure
there are no criminal penalties for having,
assisting with, or providing abortion, for all
relevant actors
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Gestational limits
Recommend against laws that prohibit
abortion based on gestational age limit
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Other key recommendations
Recommend that abortion be available on
the request of the woman, girl or other
pregnant person without the authorization
of any other individual, body or institution
Recommend the option of self-management
of medical abortion at < 12 weeks