Rights and Responsibilities: Healthy Pregnancies, Contraception and Abortion - Latin America
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Latin America resources
Fact sheets
Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide [PDF version]
October 2008
Facts on Induced Abortion in Mexico [PDF]
October 2008
Facts About the Unmet Need For Contraception in Developing Countries [PDF]
July 2007
Highlighted policy articles
Making the Case for a 'Contraceptive Convenience' Agenda [PDF version]
Sneha Barot
Guttmacher Policy Review, October 2008
New Data on Abortion Incidence, Safety Illuminate Key Aspects of Worldwide Abortion Debate [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, November 2007
Toward Making Abortion 'Rare': The Shifting Battleground over the Means to an End [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, March 2006
Working to Eliminate the World's Unmet Need for Contraception [PDF version]
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review, March 2006
Global Gag Rule: Exporting Antiabortion Ideology at the Expense of American Values [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, June 2001
An Overview of Clandestine Abortion in Latin America [PDF version]
Deirdre Wulf
Issues in Brief, December 1996
"In Brief"
An Overview of Clandestine Abortion in Latin America [PDF version]
Deirdre Wulf
December 1996
Highlighted research articles
Estimates of Induced Abortion in Mexico: What's Changed Between 1990 and 2006 [PDF]
Fatima Juarez, Susheela Singh, Sandra G. Garcia and Claudia Diaz Olavarrieta
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2008
Legal Abortion Worldwide: Incidence and Recent Trends [PDF version]
Gilda Sedgh, Stanley K.Henshaw, Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole and Joanna Drescher
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2007
Reports
Women with an Unmet Need for Contraception in Developing Countries and Their Reasons for Not Using a Method [PDF]
Gilda Sedgh, Rubina Hussain, Akinrinola Bankole and Susheela Singh
July 2007
Embarazo no planeado y aborto inseguro en Guatemala: Causas y Consecuencias [PDF]
December 2006
Morbilidad por aborto en Guatemala: Una visión de la comunidad [PDF]
Sandra Sáenz de Tejada, Elena Prada y Gonzalo Ball
November 2006
Preventing Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences: Priorities for Research and Action [PDF]
March 2006
Abortion and Postabortion Care in Guatemala: A Report from Health Care Professionals and Health Facilities [PDF]
Elena Prada, Edgar Kestler, Caroline Sten, Lindsay Dauphinee, and Lilian Ramírez
December 2005
Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion: Public Challenges in Latin America and The Caribbean [PDF]
November 2001
Sharing Responsibility: Women Society and Abortion Worldwide [PDF]
June 1999
Slide shows
Abortion: Worldwide Levels and Trends
October 2007
New Evidence to Address the Unmet Need for Contraception
July 2007
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