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Title:Locating the determinants of unsafe abortion beyond the legal framework of abortion laws: a case study of Nigerian and Ghanaian abortion laws
Author:Adeleke, Funminiyi A.R.
Year:2012
Periodical:Journal of African and international law (ISSN 1821-620X)
Volume:5
Issue:3
Pages:555-573
Language:English
Geographic terms:Ghana
Nigeria
Subjects:abortion
reproductive health
criminal law
Abstract:This paper gives a comparative study on abortion laws in Nigeria and Ghana to show that the assumption of where there is no legal restriction on abortion, abortion services are likely to be safe and the assumption of where abortion is legally restrictive or criminalized, women then turn to providers with a high risk of incurring serious or life-threatening complications are over-generalized. There are other determinant factors responsible for unsafe abortion beside the legal framework. This study points out that the clandestinity usually associated with abortion is basically irrespective of the legality or otherwise of abortion; rather it is a result of the socio-cultural and ethno-moral corpus of the communities. The paper acknowledges the fact that criminalized and strict abortion law may actually be a determining factor for perpetuating the pandemic of unsafe abortion; however, it is the author's submission that liberalizing abortion law does not also ipso facto garantee safe abortion. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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