Using the right to life to confront unsafe abortion in Africa

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 143-150

  Teklehaimanot, Kibrom I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advocacy and political process; Africa; Beliefs norms values; Human rights; Unsafe abortion

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; AFRICA; COMMUNITY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAW; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORALITY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; REVIEW;

EID: 0036589455     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(02)00006-X     Document Type: Article

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