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Harm reduction, human rights, and access to information on safer abortion
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 05/31/2012
Erdman JN – Pragmatism accepts the historical reality that women will engage in unsafe abortion, including self–induction, while addressing factors that render them vulnerable to this reality, and requires assessment of interventions to reduce abortion–related harms on evidence of their real rather than intended effect. Criminal law reform is a necessary conclusion to a harm reduction and human rights approach.