'This Is Real Misery': Experiences of Women Denied Legal Abortion in Tunisia.

ABSTRACT: Barriers to accessing legal abortion services in Tunisia are increasing, despite a liberal abortion law, and women are often denied wanted legal abortion services. In this paper, we seek to explore the reasons for abortion denial and whether these reasons had a legal or medical basis. We also identify barriers women faced in accessing abortion and make recommendations for improved access to quality abortion care. We recruited women immediately after they had been turned away from legal abortion services at two facilities in Tunis, Tunisia. Thirteen women consented to participate in qualitative interviews two months after they were turned away from the facility. Women were denied abortion care on the day they were recruited due to three main reasons: gestational age, health conditions, and

SUBMITTER: Hajri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4686168 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature