Peru study shows restrictive law fails to limit number of abortions

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 17:28 in Health & Medicine

Despite abortion being severely legally restricted - and potentially unsafe - in Peru, the incidence of abortion is as high as or higher than the incidence in many countries where it is legal and safe, found researchers from Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States in an article published in CMAJ http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg298.pdf.

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