The necessity of a comprehensive study on abortion in Iran

The necessity of a comprehensive study on abortion in Iran

Behjati Ardekani, Z.
Akhoondi, Mohammed Mahdi
Sadeghi, M.R.
Sadri Ardekani, H.

20050000

Persian

20050000

Each year health and lives of millions of people are endangered by the termination of unwanted pregnancies. Unsafe induced abortions happen very often all over the world

especially in developing countries which many lead to death and disability of have lead to an increase in unsafe induced abortions. Other objectives of this study were to evaluate the causes of this increase, to assess the need for educative information on different aspects of unsafe abortions, to familiarize the legislative authorities with the present condition of the country and to make preparations for a change in views and also to cultivate the social grounds to reduce the increasing rate of such abortions. This study was based on literature and documentation reviews. Considering the young age of the Iranian population, changes in the views of Iranian women on the family size, late marriages, absence of parents at home in most of the day time, committing unsafe abortions due to the pressures exerted by restrictive legislations, endangering physical, sexual and psychosocial health of men and women and the increased treatment expenses and their effect on the health care budget, require great steps to be taken to make changes in legislative policies by applying WHO's views on the concept of health to hopefully witness a pronounced reduction in unsafe abortions. It seems that there are the possibilities to achieve legal solutions by considering the comprehensive aspects of abortion and taking divagate of the uncertainties and absence of a unified jurisprudential view on the time of soul inspiration and by relying on the robust law of 'hardship', prescription of abortion in some instances can come true.

Abstract in English and Farsi

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abortion--[pri]

legal aspects, maternal health;mortality;morbidity;public policy;socioeconomic factors;statistics

Iran--[pri]

Medical Journal of Reproduction and Infertility.2005;24(6): 320-299 [Online]. Accessed:http://www.jri.ir/Documents/FullPaper/Fa/197.pdf [2010 November 15]

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