Legal and political frameworks governing access to abortion services. One of the most contested social policy issues globally, intersecting with religion, women's rights, and constitutional law.
Should governments protect or restrict access to abortion services?
Protect reproductive autonomy; legal access to abortion as a fundamental right
Restrict or ban abortion; protect fetal rights; conscience exemptions for providers
U.S. Dobbs decision returned regulation to states; Latin America liberalizing; Europe mostly settled