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The right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from Turkey
In this article, the right to terminate pregnancy is discussed comparatively in terms of the situation in Turkey and the rest of the world. We have concluded that certain minimum conditions must be met to be able to talk about the full recognition of this right. Recognizing that pregnancy can be ter...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10475352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37671116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad023 |
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author | Şenol, Hatice Kübra Ercoşkun Ercoşkun, Pelin |
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description | In this article, the right to terminate pregnancy is discussed comparatively in terms of the situation in Turkey and the rest of the world. We have concluded that certain minimum conditions must be met to be able to talk about the full recognition of this right. Recognizing that pregnancy can be terminated voluntarily is the most important of these conditions. Just as the period in which this right can be exercised should not be kept short, it should also be accepted that it can only be used based on the will of a pregnant person who has the power of discernment. In addition, certain obligations must be avoided, such as receiving counseling services before the termination of pregnancy and then waiting for a certain period of time to pass. In cases where pregnancy can be terminated because of an anomaly, a disease, or a crime, it is important to make clear arrangements that will not make practitioners, especially physicians, hesitate to perform such a procedure. Finally, the State must never forget that it is obliged to organize services for the termination of pregnancies in a way that is easily accessible to everyone who may need this procedure. |
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spelling | pubmed-104753522023-09-05 The right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from Turkey Şenol, Hatice Kübra Ercoşkun Ercoşkun, Pelin J Law Biosci Original Article In this article, the right to terminate pregnancy is discussed comparatively in terms of the situation in Turkey and the rest of the world. We have concluded that certain minimum conditions must be met to be able to talk about the full recognition of this right. Recognizing that pregnancy can be terminated voluntarily is the most important of these conditions. Just as the period in which this right can be exercised should not be kept short, it should also be accepted that it can only be used based on the will of a pregnant person who has the power of discernment. In addition, certain obligations must be avoided, such as receiving counseling services before the termination of pregnancy and then waiting for a certain period of time to pass. In cases where pregnancy can be terminated because of an anomaly, a disease, or a crime, it is important to make clear arrangements that will not make practitioners, especially physicians, hesitate to perform such a procedure. Finally, the State must never forget that it is obliged to organize services for the termination of pregnancies in a way that is easily accessible to everyone who may need this procedure. Oxford University Press 2023-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10475352/ /pubmed/37671116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad023 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Duke University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Oxford University Press, and Stanford Law School. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Şenol, Hatice Kübra Ercoşkun Ercoşkun, Pelin The right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from Turkey |
title | The right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from Turkey |
title_full | The right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from Turkey |
title_fullStr | The right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from Turkey |
title_full_unstemmed | The right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from Turkey |
title_short | The right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from Turkey |
title_sort | right to terminate pregnancy (abortion): reflections from turkey |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10475352/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37671116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad023 |
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