Rights and Responsibilities: Healthy Pregnancies, Contraception and Abortion - Latin America
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Latin America resources
Fact sheets
Facts on Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
October 2009
Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide [PDF version]
October 2009
Facts on Induced Abortion in Mexico [PDF]
October 2008
Facts About the Unmet Need For Contraception in Developing Countries [PDF]
July 2007
Highlighted policy articles
Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health Advances Maternal Health [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, June 2009
Making the Case for a 'Contraceptive Convenience' Agenda [PDF version]
Sneha Barot
Guttmacher Policy Review, October 2008
New Data on Abortion Incidence, Safety Illuminate Key Aspects of Worldwide Abortion Debate [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, November 2007
Toward Making Abortion 'Rare': The Shifting Battleground over the Means to an End [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, March 2006
Working to Eliminate the World's Unmet Need for Contraception [PDF version]
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review, March 2006
Global Gag Rule: Exporting Antiabortion Ideology at the Expense of American Values [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, June 2001
An Overview of Clandestine Abortion in Latin America [PDF version]
Deirdre Wulf
Issues in Brief, December 1996
"In Brief"
An Overview of Clandestine Abortion in Latin America [PDF version]
Deirdre Wulf
December 1996
Highlighted research articles
Legal Abortion Worldwide: Incidence and Recent Trends [PDF version]
Gilda Sedgh, Stanley K.Henshaw, Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole and Joanna Drescher
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2007
Reports
Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress [PDF]
Susheela Singh, Deirdre Wulf, Rubina Hussain, Akinrinola Bankole and Gilda Sedgh
October 2009
Women with an Unmet Need for Contraception in Developing Countries and Their Reasons for Not Using a Method [PDF]
Gilda Sedgh, Rubina Hussain, Akinrinola Bankole and Susheela Singh
July 2007
Embarazo no planeado y aborto inseguro en Guatemala: Causas y Consecuencias [PDF]
December 2006
Morbilidad por aborto en Guatemala: Una visión de la comunidad [PDF]
Sandra Sáenz de Tejada, Elena Prada y Gonzalo Ball
November 2006
Preventing Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences: Priorities for Research and Action [PDF]
March 2006
Abortion and Postabortion Care in Guatemala: A Report from Health Care Professionals and Health Facilities [PDF]
Elena Prada, Edgar Kestler, Caroline Sten, Lindsay Dauphinee, and Lilian Ramírez
December 2005
Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion: Public Challenges in Latin America and The Caribbean [PDF]
November 2001
Sharing Responsibility: Women Society and Abortion Worldwide [PDF]
June 1999
Slide shows
Abortion: Worldwide Levels and Trends
October 2009
New Evidence to Address the Unmet Need for Contraception
July 2007
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