Presents abortion case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and India
Illustrates the conditions and hard choices faced by women and the circumstances surrounding unplanned pregnancies
Explores the connections among poverty, violence, barriers to access, and the politics and strategies involved in abortion law reform
Contributors analyze these issues within the broader conflicts surrounding women's status, gender roles, religion, nationalism and modernity, and global politics of reproductive health.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Tables and Figures
List of Appendices
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Abortion in Asia: an overview
Andrea Whittaker
Chapter 2: Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia
Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy and Phirun Lam
Chapter 3: Between remembering and forgetting: Post-diagnostic abortions in Hanoi, Vietnam
Tine M. Gammeltoft
Chapter 4: Violence, Poverty and 'Weakness'- Interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion
Suzanne Belton
Chapter 5: Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh
Sabina Faiz Rashid
Chapter 6: Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu: Balancing costs and quality of care
Lakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J Pelto
Chapter 7: Abortion in Vietnam: History, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moi
Merrill Wolf, Phan Bich Thuy, Alyson Hyman and Amanda Huber
Chapter 8: Abortion and politics in Indonesia
Terence H Hull and Ninuk Widyantoro
Chapter 9: Barriers to access to abortion services in Malaysia: Misinformation and stigma
Rashidah Abdullah and Yut-Lin Wong
Chapter 10: Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand: An analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006
Nongluk Boonthai, Sripen Tantivess, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and Kamheang Chaturachinda
Chapter 11: Epilogue: Further challenges
Andrea Whittaker
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