Can you abort a pregnancy? Only a few issues more emotional discussions. The differences in the legislation show the range of views. We introduce you to five countries.
Protests against the planned tightening of the abortion law in Poland in may 2018
Netherlands – up to the 24. Week
“Go to Holland”, yet until the 1990s this was a common advice to women that wanted to leave in Germany a termination of pregnancy. And also today it is for some the last Option, because in the Netherlands women are allowed to up to 24. Week of pregnancy a crash. In practice, this happens but only up to 22. Week. In Germany, abortions up to 12. Week, penalty-free. Our in global terms very liberal legislation of the Netherlands was adopted in 1984. As a result, many abortion clinics, the women come from the surrounding countries. The 14 percent of all carried out in the Netherlands abortions are performed on foreign women.
Despite the liberal legislation of the Netherlands are among the countries with the fewest abortions worldwide (see info graphic). Per 1,000 women were performed in the year 2016 8,7 crashes. For more than 15 years, the number is relatively constant. As a reason experts call the comprehensive information and easy access to contraceptives.
Russia – abortion as a contraceptive
Russian women, who today are around 50 years old, know how an abortion is to be performed: you have had an average of between eight and ten abortions. Abortion is in Russia even today, as a means of birth control. 2016 700.000 pregnancies were aborted – at around two million births. Up to the 22. Week of pregnancy abortions in Russia, with a few restrictions are legal, they often take place in the seventh month.
The Soviet Union allowed abortions in the year 1955. The reason is that The illegal abortion had led to many deaths. At the same time, no information about contraceptives invaded the country, and the health system was offering abortions for free. In socialist Cuba, the Situation is similar: The poor access to condoms and the pill combined with a relatively good health system ensure that many women had multiple pregnancies, cancel.
US – actually allowed, but …
Since 1973, abortions in the USA are nationwide, legal. However, the 50 U.S. States may adopt additional regulations. So it is banned in 43 States as of a certain point in the pregnancy, an abortion. Exceptions apply only if the life or health of the woman is in danger. In five States, women must take before an abortion, a consultation, in which the woman is told that abortions increase the risk of breast cancer – even though this is not scientifically proved.
“Planned Parenthood” in the USA abortions. US President Trump wants to withdraw the clinics funding
Be promoted such schemes in the USA, very active opponents of Abortion, with President Donald Trump now also support from the very top. For special attention in the adoption of a new law in the state of Iowa made in may 2018. Republican opponents of abortion, that abortions may not be performed, as soon as a heartbeat is when the fetus is recognizable. This is a rule, already from the sixth week of pregnancy. Previously, abortions were allowed up to 20. Week to be carried out.
Laws such as these ensure that many of US Americans have in Canada a crash. There, abortions are decriminalized since 1988, completely. In addition, there are no time limits or other legal restrictions.
Chile, in the three exceptions allowed
Was in Chile for a long time one of the countries with the strictest abortion laws in the world. Only since August of 2017, crashes in three of the cases are pregnancy-legal: in the case of a pregnancy due to rape, danger to the mother or a fatal disease of the fetus. The former President Michelle Bachelet had introduced the bill shortly before the end of their term of office. Today, Bachelet is the High Commissioner for human rights of the United Nations.
So-called “Pro-Life”activists to protest against the decriminalization of abortion in Argentina
However, in spite of the new law, Doctors in Chile are often no crashes – as a reason many call them conflicts of conscience. However, no infrastructure for the intervention is, in fact. So Chile is an example for Latin America. In the Region there are the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, at the same time be carried out here in the average, the majority of abortions. In Nicaragua, for example, an absolute abortion ban, even if the mother’s life is in danger. You can, nevertheless, such an intervention, faces a sentence of up to twelve years in prison. The United Nations has compared these laws with torture.
Indonesia – abortion laws only apply to Married
In Indonesia, too, is punished, who can have an abortion or performs. Up to ten years, women need to be put behind bars. The only exceptions are when the pregnancy is caused by rape, or is at risk of the woman. And also this right is available only to married women, and only then, if the husband agrees.
Can a woman still a crash, is faced with a high social pressure. In the Land of conservative values and the different religions play a big role. According to Amnesty International, five to eleven percent of all cases of maternal mortality in Indonesia to unsafe abortions. Maternal mortality is one of the highest in the East Asia Region.