Politics, policies, pronatalism, and practice: availability and accessibility of abortion and reproductive health services in Turkey
Turkey has maintained liberal contraception and abortion policies since the 1980s. In 2012, the government proposed to restrict abortion; a bill limiting abortion was later drafted but never passed into law. Since the proposed restriction, women have reported difficulty accessing abortion services across Turkey. We aimed to better understand the current availability of abortion and reproductive health services in Istanbul and explore whether access to services has changed since 2012. In 2015, we completed 14 in-depth interviews with women and 11 semi-structured interviews with key informants.
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Katrina A. MacFarlane, Mary Lou O ’Neil, Deniz Tekdemir, Elvin Çetin, Barış Bilgen, Angel M. Foster Tags: Feature Source Type: research