2007 World Abortion Laws Map

Some 60% of the world's population currently lives in countries in which abortion is allowed for a wide range of reasons or without any restrictions, according to the 2007 World's Abortion Laws Map. Created by the Center for Reproductive Rights to keep track of legal reforms worldwide, the easy-to-read map is available in four languages and illustrates the grounds upon which each country permits abortion.










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What If Roe Fell?

The second edition of the Center’s "What if Roe Fell?" report shines a light on the latest anti-choice strategies designed to criminalize abortion at every stage of a woman's pregnancy. The report documents the way in which direct assaults on Roe at the state level have surged since the first edition of the report, in 2004, analyzes the reasons for this trend and arms citizens to fight back.

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FACT SHEETS

• "Choose Life" License Plates: An Infringement on First Amendment Rights August 2002

• Penalized For Serving Their Country:
  The Ban On Abortion For Women In the Military June 2003

• Yet Another Anti-Abortion Scare Tactic:
  False Claims of Breast Cancer Risk April 2004

• Mandatory Delays and Biased Information Requirements List of states where mandatory delay laws are currently enforced or blocked by court order. July 2003

• Mandatory Delays and Biased Information Requirements Under the guise of protecting women's health, these laws force a woman to delay the abortion procedure as long as 48 hours after receiving state-mandated information.
  July 2003

• Medicaid: Portrait of Injustice Description of abortion coverage under the Medicaid program. May 2003

• Laws and Regulations Affecting Medical Abortion This factsheet provides legal information on medical (non-surgical) abortion in the United States. July 2003

• Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) Find out more on TRAP legislation attempts to regulate the medical practices of doctors and clinics that provide abortions by imposing burdensome requirements that are different and more stringent than regulations applied to comparable medical practices.April 2004

BRIEFING PAPERS

• Crafting an Abortion Law that Respects Women's Rights: Issues to Consider (PDF)

• "Partial-Birth" Abortion Ban Legislation: By State (PDF)

• Safe and Legal Abortion is a Woman's Human Right (PDF)

• Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers: Avoiding the "TRAP January 2003(PDF)

• Unconstitutional Assault on the Right to Choose: "Partial-Birth Abortion" Ban Is an Affront to Women and to the U.S. Supreme Court (PDF)