The Sociocultural and Political Aspects of Abortion: Global Perspectives
Seeking to define the ways various cultures view pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion, this multidisciplinary collection of essays seeks to illustrate how these views influence policy decisions and practices regarding abortion around the world. Putting questions of pro-life and pro-choice aside, the contributors provide demographic coverage of the issues involved and contextualize some of the personal realities that underlie the approximately 50 million abortions that are believed to take...
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Examines abortion in various cultural and political contexts around the world.
Tables1Introduction: Induced Abortion in a Changing World12Abortion: A Worldwide Overview153The Challenge of Induced Abortion Research: Transdisciplinary Perspectives494Demographic Research and Abortion Policy: Limits to the Use of Statistics655Kutoa Mimba: Debates about Schoolgirl Abortion in Machame, Tanzania796Cleaning the Belly: Managing Menstrual Health in Guinea, West Africa1037Changing Assessments of Abortion in a Northern Nigerian Town1198The Role of Local Herbs in the Recent Fertility Decline in Ghana: Contraceptives or Abortifacients?1399Menstrual Regulation in Bangladesh15310The Impact of Reproductive Health Policy Changes on Fertility, Abortion, and Contraceptive Use in Romania16711Determinants of Abortion and Contraceptive Behavior in Russia18512Abortion Legislation in Mexico in the Face of a Changing Sociodemographic and Political Context20313The Role of Pharmacists and Market Herb Vendors as Abortifacient Providers in Mexico City22514The Social Pressure to Abort23715Concluding Remarks: The Role of Ambiguity249About the Editor and Contributors261Index267
