{"id":4022,"date":"2013-07-09T13:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2013-07-09T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:34:47","slug":"the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/world-abortion-laws-2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4023\" alt=\"world abortion laws 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/world-abortion-laws-2013.png\" width=\"1384\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/world-abortion-laws-2013.png 1384w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/world-abortion-laws-2013-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/world-abortion-laws-2013-1024x701.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/world-abortion-laws-2013-437x300.png 437w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1384px) 100vw, 1384px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/05\/31\/el_salvador_beatriz_politics_abortion_latin_america\">Latin American countries<\/a> along with countries in the Middle East and Africa have the most restrictive abortion laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to this map by the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldabortionlaws.com\/\">Center for Reproductive Rights<\/a>, in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Oman, Egypt, Libya, Indonesia, etc. (shown in red) abortions are allowed in some cases only to save a woman&#8217;s life, or in most cases they are banned altogether.<\/p>\n<p>In general, most developed nations have less restrictive abortion laws, although some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/u-s-abortion-laws-by-state\/\">12 states in the U.S. have passed more restrictive laws<\/a> banning abortion after 20 weeks of gestation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latin American countries along with countries in the Middle East and Africa have the most restrictive abortion laws. According to this map by the Center for Reproductive Rights, in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Oman, Egypt, Libya, Indonesia, etc. (shown in red) abortions are allowed in some cases only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The World&#8217;s Abortion Laws by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/the-worlds-abortion-laws-by-country\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,10,15,56,165,25,93,77,99,32,8,14,30],"tags":[1136,1149,1137,1374,1148,144,368,1139,1138,1150,1140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}