Thursday, September 13, 2012

Article on WHO guidelines in relation with safe abortion

Mahmoud F. Fathalla and  Rebecca J. Cook published the editorial Women, abortion and the new technical and policy guidance from WHO in the current issue of the Bulletin of the WHO.

The basis of this was the publication of the updated Safe Abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems by the WHO. The authors expressed their concerns "that until abortion is decriminalized, the tragedy of unsafe abortion will continue to haunt us and to threaten the life, health and rights of women. Furthermore, research aimed at developing simpler, improved methods for performing induced abortion has the potential to save the lives of millions of women globally".

The WHO guidelines are available here.

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