A review of abortion laws in Western-European countries. A cross-national comparison of legal developments between 1960 and 2010

Abortion policies around the world and in Turkey and its reflection on women’s health

“…The report, in fact, included the countries where abortion was legal and in which circumstances abortion would be allowed. (Levels, Sluiter & Need, 2014;UN, 2014a). The countries' abortion laws are categorized as below:…”

“…Legal abortion frame is always in the best interest of feminists as it is naturally about women's selfautonomy on their body and fertility. The legal limitation on abortion is perceived by many as a threat to hardly earned women rights (Levels, Sluiter & Need, 2014).…”

Policy innovation in Dutch municipalities

“…Research into policy innovations has been concentrating primarily on cross-national differences including research among European countries (Baturo & Gray, 2009;Bol, Pilet, & Riera, 2015;Gerven, Vanhercke, & Gürocak, 2014;Gilardi, 2008Gilardi, , 2010Lee & Strang, 2006;Levels, Sluiter, & Need, 2014;Toshkov, 2013) and Latin-American countries (Sugiyama, 2011;Weyland, 2005Weyland, , 2009, or on research across countries world-wide (Brooks, , 2007Calista & Melitski, 2013;Simmons & Elkins, 2004). At the subnational level, the focus is on the study of innovations in federal states, which almost always consists of American research into differences in innovativeness among the American States (Allard, 2004;Baybeck, Berry, & Siegel, 2011;Boushey, 2010;Jensen, 2004;Mintrom, 1997;Nicholson-Crotty, 2009;Shipan & Volden, 2008;Taylor, Lewis, Jacobsmeier, & DiSarro, 2012;.…”

Professionals’ Views on Offering Pre-Natal Testing for Adult Onset Cancer Susceptibility. Reconciling Personal and Professional Ethical Conflicts, Coping Strategies and Need for Policy Transparency

“…In Europe, and globally there is substantial variation in legal access to termination of pregnancies which influences reproductive medicine practices [3,4]. However, health professionals working in contemporary foetal medicine and genetics settings in the UK are accustomed to offering PND and termination for conditions that present early in life; exhibit high to complete penetrance; and have limited effective treatments [1,2] 1 .…”