Introduction
The World Health Organization defines abortion as pregnancy termination prior to 20 weeks' gestation. Besides that, it includes medical interventions such as: medication or surgical procedures.
It may be remarked that whenever countries introduce more liberal
legislation on abortion, the argument most frequently advanced to explain
the change of attitude is the need to combat criminal abortion more
effectively. It is well known that in those countries where abortion
legislation is most restrictive, the number of illegal abortions can be
counted in hundreds of thousands.
Worldwide, six in 10 women of reproductive age live in countries that broadly allow abortion, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
There are different causes, consequencies, and legislations towards the abortion in women that we are going to rebut today.