‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia

Abstract Introduction At the turn of the century, when the Millennium Development Goals placed maternal mortality reduction high on the global agenda, Ethiopia relaxed its restrictive abortion law to expand grounds on which a woman could legally obtain an abortion. This radical policy shift took pla...

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Main Authors: Getnet Tadele, Haldis Haukanes, Astrid Blystad, Karen Marie Moland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-019-1017-z