The impact of 'grounds' on abortion-related outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence.

ABSTRACT: Where abortion is legal, it is often regulated through a grounds-based approach. A grounds-based approach to abortion provision occurs when law and policy provide that lawful abortion may be provided only where a person who wishes to have an abortion satisfies stipulated 'grounds', sometimes described as 'exceptions' or 'exceptional grounds'. Grounds-based approaches to abortion are, prima facie, restrictive as they limit access to abortion based on factors extraneous to the preferences of the pregnant person. International human rights law specifies that abortion must be available (and not 'merely' lawful) where the life or health of the pregnant woman or girl is at risk, or where carrying a pregnancy to term would cause her substantial pain or suffering, including but not limited to situ

SUBMITTER: de Londras F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092771 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature