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In most European nation-states and other territories, there is a legally defined term limit before which abortion is more available than afterwards. [56] An elective abortion before the term limit may, in some cases, be carried out on request without a medical indication by the pregnant woman, or under certain conditions.
Abortion rights, which have been legal since a landmark 1974 law, are more widely accepted in France than in the United States and many other countries, with polls showing around 80% of French ...
Performing an abortion because of economic or social reasons is accepted in 37% of countries. Performing abortion only on the basis of a woman's request is allowed in 34% of countries, including in Canada, most European countries and China. [44] The exact scope of each legal ground also varies.
English: This graph has the aim is to show how, according to different criteria, abortion laws are applied in the states of the European Union, in order to have a general overview of legislation on the subject of abortion. The data were extracted from the dataset provided by Global Abortion Policies Database.
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This category contains articles which are related to abortion, abortion law, the abortion debate, or the history of abortion within the individual countries of the world. Contents Top
The CDC or Guttmacher estimates do not account for medical abortions outside a clinic. [1] Some analysts have estimated that the cumulative number of abortions in the United States may have reached a hundred million [2] and that up to two million abortions occur annually. [3]