Abortion politics in Cambodia social history, local forms and transnational issues
Abortion politics in Cambodia social history, local forms and transnational issues
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柬埔寨社会历史、地方形式和跨国问题中的堕胎政治
DOI:
10.1080/17441692.2017.1354228
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Pascale Hancart Petitet
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作者:
Pascale Hancart Petitet
ABSTRACT Cambodia’s current abortion rate and ratio could be among the highest in Southeast Asia. In 1997, the Cambodian parliament passed the first law regulating abortions. This law was adopted to contribute to reduce the high maternal mortality ratio, as a significant number of maternal deaths were believed to be related to complications of unsafe abortion. A decade later, the Ministry of Health had not yet established medical protocols for safe abortion access and women often continued to induce their own terminations or seek unsafe services. However, in 2009, the Cambodian authorities approved the importation and distribution of one manufactured abortion pill. In addition, manual vacuum abortions and medical abortion training programmes were implemented at the referral hospital level. How has this situation come about? What do we know about the local agencies of the transnational reproductive health policies related to safe abortion access in this country? This paper aims to analyse how history and intersections between global interventions, state policies, local moralities and individual strategies shape abortion policies, practices and technologies. Finally, our findings raise some issues for public health programming.