全球，多数19-20百万妇女每年诉诸于不安全的堕胎。其中许多导致并发症会造成相当大的损害甚至死亡，使堕胎成为妇女健康和性别平等的关键问题。然而，堕胎仍然是全球卫生参与者中一个有争议的问题，并且经常被忽视和忽视。处理堕胎时，通常会根据合法化或定罪进行讨论，并且自由堕胎法通常被理解为容易获得堕胎服务的代名词。最近出版的collection在the国际健康公平杂志scrutinizes this assumption and asks the question:堕胎法实际上对女孩和妇女获得安全堕胎服务有什么区别？
获得性和生殖健康服务（包括安全堕胎）是确保妇女平等选择健康和生活权利的重要一步
获得性和生殖健康服务（包括安全堕胎）是确保妇女平等选择健康和生活权利的重要一步。While access to such services is improving in many areas of the world, sub-Saharan Africa seems to be lagging behind. The region is responsible for anestimated 60% of all unsafe abortion在全球范围内,这是有限的交流密切相关cess to safe abortion alternatives. Is this lack of access to safe abortion services a result of a region’s abortion laws? Or are other factors just as relevant? Taking a closer look at the cases of Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia – three countries in sub-Saharan Africa with very different abortion laws – can provide valuable insight. The laws in these countries vary from fairly liberal in Zambia to very restrictive in Tanzania. But how this is linked to girls’ and women’s possibilities to terminate a pregnancy without risking their lives, is far from evident. Abortion laws are only one of many factors that determine a girl’s chances to obtain an abortion. The situation in Zambia makes a good example: there, the Christian ideology of the state contravenes the law and undermines women’s rights to sexual and reproductive health. In other words, a seemingly liberal abortion law, like the one found in Zambia, is far from sufficient to guarantee girls and women access to safe abortion services.
女孩，妇女和卫生人员不知道法律框架的权利和义务，使他们难以获得法律确实允许的堕胎服务
尽管他们的堕胎法不同，但埃塞俄比亚，坦桑尼亚和赞比亚在公开辩论和围绕堕胎话题的关注方面仍然相似。流产政策以相当大的沉默处理。结果，女孩，妇女和卫生人员不知道法律框架的权利和义务使她们授予他们的权利和义务，从而难以获得法律允许的堕胎服务。另一方面，对于至少一些妇女提供安全的堕胎服务可能是必要的，尤其是在像埃塞俄比亚这样的政治承诺的环境中，但公众对2004年生效的自由化法律的支持很少。
while abortion laws are important, they are not enough to make a difference to the lives of girls and women seeking safe abortions
比较这三个国家的情况并对比揭示了一系列社会，道德和政治因素，这些因素影响了给定堕胎法的解释和实施方式。我们开始看到，尽管堕胎法很重要，但它们不足以改变寻求安全堕胎的女孩和妇女的生活。承认这可能是了解了解和限制女性获得安全堕胎服务的各种微妙，经常被研究的元素的第一步。
We hope that the articles of the thematic collection can inspire others to go beyond the question of legalization or criminalization of abortion, and further investigate the complex web of social, moral, and political factors that regulate and condition girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive health.
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