Women's perceptions of abortion in Egypt

Huntington, Dale; Nawar, L; Abdelhady, Dalia

doi:10.1016/s0968-8080(97)90011-2

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“…31 The differences between women's expressed opinions on abortion and their actual behaviour have been documented. 32,33 In South Africa, the concept of ''dual morality'' has been used to refer to women who, while publicly opposed to abortion, will seek abortion when they have an unwanted pregnancy. 34 Researchers have examined how experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion are conditioned by social and cultural constructions of motherhood and abortion.…”

Section: Breaking the Silence: From Research To Mobilisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Progress in Abortion Advocacy and Policy: An Assessment of the Decade since ICPD

Hessini¹

2005

Reproductive Health Matters

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The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action represented a positive step toward legitimising abortion as a component of basic reproductive health services. This paper reviews how the ICPD principles and recommendations have been applied in the past decade toward increasing women's access to affordable, safe and legal abortion services. It examines advocacy efforts to increase understanding of abortion among policymakers and the public, policy and action at the global level, progress made in national-level policies and services, and obstacles encountered. Research and advocacy are helping to break the silence globally about unsafe abortion, and there is an emerging global movement supporting women's right to safe abortion. A great deal has been accomplished in the ten short years since ICPD, in spite of serious setbacks in some countries and continuing obstacles. A synthesis of public health and rights-based approaches, and strategic partnerships with other social justice movements are called for, as a foundation for effective legal reform efforts and to ensure that women have access to safe abortion services.

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Section: Breaking the Silence: From Research To Mobilisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Progress in Abortion Advocacy and Policy: An Assessment of the Decade since ICPD

Hessini¹

2005

Reproductive Health Matters

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“…Abortion is permitted in Egypt in cases where health risks endanger the life of the pregnant woman (Huntington, Nawar, & Abdel-Hady, 1997). Islamic theologians approve of pregnancy termination when a woman's life is at stake.…”

Section: Abandonment Of Infants In Egyptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Islamic theologians approve of pregnancy termination when a woman's life is at stake. If an abortion is performed for reasons other than saving the woman's life, both the woman and the provider are subject to legal prosecution (Huntington, Nawar, & Abdel-Hady, 1997). The incidence of abortion is significantly correlated with gravidity, consanguinity, and mother's occupation.…”

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Family Foster Care, Kinship Networks, and Residential Care of Abandoned Infants in Egypt

Megahead

Cesario

2008

Journal of Family Social Work

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“…15 These studies contributed to the growing body of international evidence supporting the global postabortion care initiative during its formative years and created an environment for scientific study of postabortion services that engaged the Egyptian public health community.…”

Section: The Egyptian Program: Initial Phasesmentioning

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Moving from Research to Program: The Egyptian Postabortion Care Initiative

Huntington¹,

Nawar²

2003

International Family Planning Perspectives

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In settings where abortion is legally restricted and socially sanctioned, the medical treatment of women who have had unsafe or incomplete abortions is often a willfully neglected service. Research conducted in the 1990s brought attention to the low quality of care and inhumane treatment that many patients receive as a result of this neglect. 1 The concept of postabortion care was central to this research, which highlighted three essential services for providers to offer women who seek care for an incomplete abortion: emergency medical treatment of complications, family planning counseling and services, and referral for other reproductive health care needs. By clearly positioning the problem within the health care domain-as opposed to religious, legal or social arenas-advocates of postabortion care have created a less-volatile atmosphere for research and program development.Yet, tension continues to surround activities concerned with abortion. As postabortion care programs expand out of the pilot phase and scale up their activities as elements of larger, ongoing health care programs, they test the limits of public officials' support. The literature offers little evidence of how successfully these programs have managed resistance associated with the politics of abortion and grown from pilot studies to national programs.An additional difficulty confronting postabortion programs concerns the supply of manual vacuum aspiration instruments. The overwhelming body of evidence favors the use of manual vacuum aspiration for the treatment of incomplete abortion at an early gestational age; 2 as a result, it has become the standard for postabortion care. 3 Pilot postabortion projects and small-scale expansion programs generally operate with donated instruments, because they are conducted before the commercial importation or local manufacturing of instruments receives regulatory approval. This partly reflects the sociopolitical tensions surrounding abortion-related health care, which create extraordinary pressure to demonstrate medical benefits and acceptability of new clinical practices. Attention to ensuring sustained provision of manual vacuum aspiration is generally put off until after the program has achieved a degree of success and recognition.Foundations' and donor agencies' generous donations of manual vacuum aspiration instruments have greatly eased the implementation of demonstration projects and research studies. However, the long-term viability of a program that relies on donated instruments is uncertain (at best), and a sustainable supply of instruments is crucial for a national program. In settings where access to abortion is legally restricted, it is extremely difficult to gain approval to purchase or manufacture the instruments, because of their association with abortion. Procurement decisions are frequently made by officials who are not clinicians or who are unfamiliar with the need for improved postabortion services. 4 As a result, operational policies that govern the availability of manual vacuum aspirati...

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Women's perceptions of abortion in Egypt

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Global Progress in Abortion Advocacy and Policy: An Assessment of the Decade since ICPD

Global Progress in Abortion Advocacy and Policy: An Assessment of the Decade since ICPD

Family Foster Care, Kinship Networks, and Residential Care of Abandoned Infants in Egypt

Moving from Research to Program: The Egyptian Postabortion Care Initiative

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