ABORTION - From criminalisation to the right to self-determination A

Criminalisation and stigmatisation of abortion seekers is not only one of the most common gynaecological procedures, and providers threaten the availability of abortion services and but also the most effective method to terminate an unintended could lead to the use of unsafe abortion methods. [...] The first medicine contains the ac- tive substance mifepristone (marketed under the trade name Mifegyne®), which inhibits the action of progesterone and initiates the breakdown of the endometrium and amniotic sac as well as the opening of the cervix. [...] Whether it is the struggles in Latin America to overturn restrictive legislation, in Poland to prevent the tightening of laws by right-wing parties, in Germany to stop the criminalisation of doctors and fill gaps in reproductive health care, or in South Africa – where there is access to safe and legal abortion – to remove the social and medical stigma surrounding it. [...] The unprecedented intensity of the protests is due to the Catholic Church, fundamentalist groups and the nationalist conservative ruling party taking a sledgehammer approach to suppressing social change and especially the aspirations of young people. [...] The report understands (discrimi- gers the mental and physical health of restrictions being placed on access to nation-)free and legal access to sexual the mother or the life of the mother abortion in Europe.