Agenda setting and socially contentious policies: Ethiopia's 2005 reform of its law on abortion.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2005, Ethiopia took a bold step in reforming its abortion law as part of the overhaul of its Penal Code. Unsafe abortion is one of the three leading causes of maternal mortality in low-income countries; however, few countries have liberalized their laws to permit safer, legal abortion.

Methods

This retrospective case study describes the actors and processes involved in Ethiopia's reform and assesses the applicability of theories of agenda setting focused on internal versus external explanations. It draws on 54 interviews conducted in 2007 and 2012 with informants from civil society organizations, health professionals, government, international nongovernmental organizations and donors, and others familiar with the reproductive health policy context in Ethiopia a

SUBMITTER: Holcombe SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9195348 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature