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1. The right to a planned parenthood: A qualitative study of NGOs’ work to empower women’s reproductive choice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : Brazil is a country where the average births per woman has dropped considerably in the last 60 years- from 6.3 to 1.7. However, there are large inequalities among the people in Brazil and many still lack access to education and resources for family planning. READ MORE
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2. “Don’t do it, but do it” : Exploring a legal window of opportunity for safe abortion and the role of healthcare practitioners in implementing the right to health in Ethiopia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Unsafe abortion is a major contributing factor to maternal mortality with 47,000 largely avoidable deaths occurring globally every year, the majority in the global south. Ethiopia has taken a unique approach to addressing maternal mortality impacted by unsafe abortion through a 2005 reform of the abortion legislation in which abortion is illegal but available under a range of exceptions. READ MORE
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3. Effects of the neoliberal agenda on abortion policy and sexual rights in Poland and Ireland. A Comparative Feminist Global Political Economy analysis
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : In Europe, abortion policy shifts drastically across the region despite the EU´s efforts to make it equally accessible. The differences in access to abortion are often connected to the level of religious impact on the government, and Roman Catholicism is often viewed as the villain when an EU country restricts its abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) policies. READ MORE
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4. Right to life or right to governance? A discourse analysis of Texas' and Mexico's abortion policies from September 2021
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to conduct a discourse analysis on Texas’ and Mexico’s abortion policies from September 2021 by applying Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ method, together with a theoretical framework based in reproductive governance and SRHR. The research questions are: what is the problem of abortion represented to be in these policies, and to what extent the discourses presented in said policies align with the views on abortion communicated by the Catholic Church. READ MORE
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5. Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability, and Quality of SRHR related health care for unaccompanied minor girls in VGR: A qualitative study based on the perceptions of health care professionals.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för medicinAbstract : Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental to both the individual’s health as well as to public health. Despite that, SRHR are still only a desire and an ambition for millions of women and girls around the world, and the suffering due to SRHR related issues continues to be a large part of the global ill health. READ MORE
