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Rebecca J Cook, JN Erdman, Bernard M Dickens<\/h4>\n\n\n
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International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong>
National and international courts and tribunals are increasingly ruling that although states may aim to deter unlawful abortion by criminal penalties, they bear a parallel duty to inform physicians and patients of when abortion is lawful. The fear is that women are unjustly denied safe medical procedures to which they are legally entitled, because without such information physicians are deterred from involvement. With particular attention to the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee, the Constitutional Court of Colombia, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal, and the US Supreme Court, decisions are explained that show the responsibility of states to make rights to legal abortion transparent. Litigants are persuading judges to apply rights to reproductive health and human rights to require states’ explanations of when abortion is lawful, and governments are increasingly inspired to publicize regulations or guidelines on when abortion will attract neither police nor prosecutors’ scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cook RJ, Erdman J, Dickens BM. Achieving Transparency In Implementing Abortion Laws<\/a>. Int J Gyn Ob. 2007 Nov;99(2):157-161. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebecca J Cook, JN Erdman, Bernard M Dickens AbstractNational and international courts and tribunals are increasingly ruling that although states may aim to deter unlawful abortion by criminal penalties, they bear a parallel duty to inform physicians and patients of when abortion is lawful. 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