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Critical Issues in Reproductive HealthHow Problematic Will Liberal Abortion Policies Be for Pronatalist Countries?

Critical Issues in Reproductive Health: How Problematic Will Liberal Abortion Policies Be for... [Those concerned with fostering both women’s reproductive health and reproductive rights need to monitor closely the interplay between abortion and population policies. Currently the majority of countries with policies aimed at altering their fertility levels have abortion policies that are not in harmony with their fertility goals. Most antinatalist countries restrict women’s access to abortion and most pronatalist countries permit women an easy access to abortion. In both cases this lack of harmony allows critics of a country’s abortion policy to attack that policy with demographic arguments. Since the UN projects that 69 % of the world’s population by 2035 will be living in countries with below replacement fertility, demographic arguments for restricting a woman’s easy access to abortion are likely to proliferate, to become more salient and to constitute a real threat to women’s reproductive rights in particular countries.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Critical Issues in Reproductive HealthHow Problematic Will Liberal Abortion Policies Be for Pronatalist Countries?

Part of the The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Book Series (volume 33)
Editors: Kulczycki, Andrzej
Hodgson, Dennis
Critical Issues in Reproductive Health — Jul 4, 2013
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
ISBN
978-94-007-6721-8
Pages
153 –176
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-6722-5_8
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Abstract

[Those concerned with fostering both women’s reproductive health and reproductive rights need to monitor closely the interplay between abortion and population policies. Currently the majority of countries with policies aimed at altering their fertility levels have abortion policies that are not in harmony with their fertility goals. Most antinatalist countries restrict women’s access to abortion and most pronatalist countries permit women an easy access to abortion. In both cases this lack of harmony allows critics of a country’s abortion policy to attack that policy with demographic arguments. Since the UN projects that 69 % of the world’s population by 2035 will be living in countries with below replacement fertility, demographic arguments for restricting a woman’s easy access to abortion are likely to proliferate, to become more salient and to constitute a real threat to women’s reproductive rights in particular countries.]

Published: Jul 4, 2013

Keywords: Total Fertility Rate; Population Policy; Stress Point; Legal Abortion; Abortion Policy

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