Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP) conducted a 5 day workshop “Abortion Advocacy and HeRWAI (Human Rights for Women Assessment
Instrument Training)” in Hanoi,
Vietnam from 25th -29th July 2010 in collaboration with the Centre for
Reproductive Rights (CRR) and Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights
(WGNRR).
Asia Safe Abortion Partnership had completed a study [August 13, 2010] Asia Safe Abortion Partnership had completed a study: “A Study of Knowledge, Attitudes and Understanding of Legal Professionals about Safe Abortion as a Women’s Right” and the reports are now available on the website
Asia Safe Abortion Partnership held it’s first Satellite Session (SS) along with four Partners at the 5th APCRSHR held in Beijing on 19th October 2009. The Partners were Concept Foundation, Ipas. International Centre for Research on Women and IPPF ESEAOR. There were about 50 committed people present is the audience.
Abortion Worldwide: A decade of uneven progress' [November 30, 2009] Restricting the availability of legal abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying to end unwanted pregnancies, a major report by the Guttmacher Institute suggests.
The survey found abortion occurs at roughly equal rates in regions where it is legal and regions where it is highly restricted.
ICMA Statement on Misoprostol Internet Sale - 27th May, 2009 [November 30, 2009] While it would be far preferable for all women who seek an abortion to have access to a trained provider through their national health system, this is not always possible, especially where laws are restrictive.
Recession affects family planning, with abortions and vasectomies [April 6, 2009]
Some experts believe concerns over the recession may have an effect on the overall U.S. birth rate, possibly reversing the trends that resulted in this month's government report that a record number of babies were born in the United States in 2007.
Women in Spain will be able to get an abortion on demand upto 12 or possibly 14 weeks of pregnancy for the first time ifa proposed law is passed by parliament.
Background: The aim of the study was to explore the effect of first- trimester mifepristone-induced abortion (MA) on placental complications in subsequent pregnancy.
Internet based services have as broad a range of providers as do more traditional services, ranging from Women on the Web which includes carefully researched information, online consultation with a physician counseling and follow up to of course uncontrolled online sales of drugs that in some cases are not even mifepristone or misoprostol.
Religious fundamentalisms are gaining strength within the world’s major and minor religions, and across all the world’s regions. In the views of women’s rights activists, these movements have intensified over the last ten years, and have grown more visible, strategic and aggressive.
"ANTI-PORN" BILL COULD THREATEN INDONESIAN WOMEN [February 12, 2009]
Jakarta - Indonesia’s parliament passed an "anti-porn" bill, which bans anyone from wearing clothes or promoting material that could incite “sexual desire” [this past November].
Based on articles found on the PubMed and Popline databases on the provision of first-trimester abortion by mid-level providers, this article describes policies on type of abortion provider, comparative studies of different types of abortion provider, provider perspectives, and programmatic experience in Bangladesh, Cambodia, France, Mozambique, South Africa, Sweden, the United States of America and Viet Nam.
The conventional timing of misoprostol administration after mifepristone for second trimester medical abortion is 36–48 h, but simultaneous administration, which may make the regimen more convenient, has not been studied. The objective of this randomized comparison study is to compare two intervals of administration of misoprostol after pretreatment with mifepristone for second trimester medical abortion.
Press Release [February 12, 2009]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that article10, that guarantees the freedom of expression, was violated when the Portuguese government send warships to prevent the Women on Waves ship from entering Portugal in 2004.
