Abortion law

{{Short description|Laws that allow, prohibit, or regulate abortion}} {{pp|reason=Arbitration enforcement: WP:ARBAB|small=yes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} [[File:Abortion Laws.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.8|{{Center|Legality of abortion by country, state or territory}} {| |- | colspan=2 | Legal on request: |- valign=top | {{Color box|#40D0FF}} || No gestational limit |- valign=top | {{Color box|#4080FF}} || Gestational limit greater than 17 weeks from the last menstrual period (LMP) |- valign=top | {{Color box|#3465A4}} || Gestational limit between 7 and 17 weeks from LMP |- valign=top | {{Color box|#983B74}} || Gestational limit less than 7 weeks from LMP |- valign=top | {{Color box|#A000FF}} || Unclear gestational limit |- | colspan=2 | Legally restricted to cases of: |- valign=top | {{Color box|#73D216}} || Risk to woman's life, to her health*, rape*, fetal impairment*, socioeconomic factors, or failure of contraception* |- valign=top | {{Color box|#EDD400}} || Risk to woman's life, to her health*, rape, or fetal impairment |- valign=top | {{Color box|#F540F5}} || Risk to woman's life, to her health*, or fetal impairment |- valign=top | {{Color box|#C17D11}} || Risk to woman's life*, to her health*, or rape |- valign=top | {{Color box|#F57900}} || Risk to woman's life or to her health |- valign=top | {{Color box|#CC0000}} || Risk to woman's life |- valign=top | {{Color box|#000000}} || Illegal with no exceptions |- valign=top | {{Color box|#B9B9B9}} || No information |- | colspan=2 | * Does not apply to some countries or territories in that category |} Note: In some countries or territories, abortion laws are modified by other laws, regulations, legal principles or judicial decisions. This map shows their combined effect as implemented by the authorities.]]

'''Abortion laws''' vary widely among countries and territories, and have changed over time. Such laws range from abortion being freely available on request, to regulation or restrictions of various kinds, to outright prohibition in all circumstances. Many countries and territories that allow abortion have gestational limits for the procedure depending on the reason; with the majority being up to 12 weeks for abortion on request, up to 24 weeks for rape, incest, or socioeconomic reasons, and more for fetal impairment or risk to the woman's health or life. As of 2025, countries that legally allow abortion on request or for socioeconomic reasons comprise about 60% of the world's population. In 2024, France became the first country to explicitly protect abortion rights in its constitution,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Niewiarowski |first1=Erik |title=France makes abortion a constitutional right in historic vote |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/05/france-makes-abortion-a-constitutional-right-in-historic-vote/ |website=PinkNews |date=5 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> while Yugoslavia implicitly inscribed abortion rights in its constitution in 1974.<ref>{{cite web |title=As France guarantees the right to abortion, other European countries look to expand access |url=https://apnews.com/article/europe-abortion-rights-constitution-france-f65ef0c520bfbb43d4c201cfc443ca54 |website=AP News |date=5 March 2024 |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref>

Abortion continues to be a controversial subject in many societies on religious, moral, ethical, practical, and political grounds. Though it has been banned and otherwise limited by law in many jurisdictions, abortions continue to be common in many areas, even where they are illegal. According to a 2007 study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization, abortion rates are similar in countries where the procedure is legal and in countries where it is not,<ref name=kaiser>{{cite web|title=Abortion Rates Similar In Countries That Legalize, Prohibit Procedure, Study Says|url=http://www.medicalabortionconsortium.org/news/abortion-rates-similar-in-countries-that-legalize-prohibit-procedure-study-says-102.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323224239/http://www.medicalabortionconsortium.org/news/abortion-rates-similar-in-countries-that-legalize-prohibit-procedure-study-says-102.html|archive-date=23 March 2014|access-date=23 March 2014|publisher=International Consortium for Medical Abortion (ICMA)}}</ref><ref name="kaiser2">{{Cite journal|last1=Sedgh|first1=Gilda|last2=Henshaw|first2=Stanley|last3=Singh|first3=Susheela|last4=Åhman|first4=Elisabeth|last5=Shah|first5=Iqbal H.|display-authors=|date=13 August 2007|title=Induced abortion: estimated rates and trends worldwide|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61575-X/fulltext|journal=The Lancet|volume=370|issue=9595|pages=1338–1345|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61575-X|pmid=17933648|s2cid=28458527|url-access=registration|doi-access=}}</ref> due to unavailability of modern contraceptives in areas where abortion is illegal.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Susheela|first1=Signh|last2=Darroch|first2=Jacqueline E.|last3=Ashford|first3=Lori S.|last4=Vlassoff|first4=Michael|date=2009|title=Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Newborn Health|url=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/AddingItUp2009.pdf|location=New York|publisher=Guttmacher Institute and United Nations Population Fund|pages=17, 19, 27|quote=Some 215 million women in the developing world as a whole have an unmet need for modern contraceptives ... If the 215 million women with unmet need used modern family planning methods ... [that] would result in about 22 million fewer unplanned births; 25 million fewer abortions; and seven million fewer miscarriages....If women's contraceptive needs were addressed (and assuming no changes in abortion laws) ... the number of unsafe abortions would decline by 73% from 20 million to 5.5 million.}} A few of the findings in that report were subsequently changed, and are available at {{cite web|date=November 2010|title=Facts on Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health|url=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-AIU-summary.pdf|publisher=Guttmacher Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324101905/http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-AIU-summary.pdf|archive-date=24 March 2012}}</ref> Also according to the study, the number of abortions worldwide is declining due to increased access to contraception.<ref name=kaiser /><ref name=kaiser2 />

==History== {{Main|History of abortion|History of abortion law debate}} {{More citations needed|section|date=July 2017}}

Abortion has existed since ancient times, with natural abortifacients being found amongst a wide variety of tribal people and in most written sources. The earliest known records of abortion techniques and general reproductive regulation date as far back as 2700 BC in China, and 1550 BC in Egypt.<ref>{{cite book|last=Joffe|first=Carole|date=3 April 2009|chapter=Abortion and Medicine: A Sociopolitical History |editor=Maureen Paul |editor2=E. Steve Lichtenberg |editor3=Lynn Borgatta |editor4=David A. Grimes |editor5=Phillip G. Stubblefield |editor6=Mitchell D. Creinin |title=Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care|pages=1–9|doi=10.1002/9781444313031.ch1|isbn=978-1-4443-1303-1 |publisher=Blackwell}}</ref> Early texts contain little mention of abortion or abortion law. When it does appear, it is entailed in concerns about male property rights, preservation of social order, and the duty to produce fit citizens for the state or community. The harshest penalties were generally reserved for a woman who procured an abortion against her husband's wishes, and for slaves who produced abortion in a woman of high status. Religious texts often contained severe condemnations of abortion, recommending penance but seldom enforcing secular punishment. As a matter of common law in England and the United States, abortion was illegal anytime after quickening—when the movements of the fetus could first be felt by the woman. Under the born alive rule, the fetus was not considered a "reasonable being" ''in rerum natura''; and abortion was not treated as murder in English law.

In the 19th century, many Western countries began to codify abortion laws or place further restrictions on the practice. Anti-abortion movements were led by a combination of groups opposed to abortion on moral grounds, and by medical professionals who were concerned about the danger presented by the procedure and the regular involvement of non-medical personnel in performing abortions. Nevertheless, it became clear that illegal abortions continued to take place in large numbers even where abortions were rigorously restricted. It was difficult to obtain sufficient evidence to prosecute the women and abortion doctors, and judges and juries were often reluctant to convict. For example, Henry Morgentaler, a Canadian pro-choice advocate, was never convicted by a jury. He was acquitted by a jury in the 1973 court case, but the acquittal was overturned by five judges on the Quebec Court of Appeal in 1974. He went to prison, appealed, and was again acquitted. In total, he served 10 months, suffering a heart attack while in solitary confinement. Many were also outraged at the invasion of privacy and the medical problems resulting from abortions taking place illegally in medically dangerous circumstances. Political movements soon coalesced around the legalization of abortion and liberalization of existing laws.

By the first half of the 20th century, many countries had begun to liberalize abortion laws, at least when performed to protect the woman's life and in some cases on the woman's request. Under Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet Union became the first modern state in legalizing abortions on request—the law was first introduced in the Russian SFSR in 1920, in the Ukrainian SSR in July 1921, and then in the whole country.<ref>{{cite web|date=18 November 1920|title=Decree on Women's Healthcare|url=http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/the-new-woman/the-new-woman-texts/on-the-protection-of-womens-health|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218204536/http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/the-new-woman/the-new-woman-texts/on-the-protection-of-womens-health|archive-date=18 December 2021|publisher=People's Commissariat of Health}}</ref><ref name=USSR1995>{{Cite journal|last1=Avdeev|first1=Alexandre|last2=Blum|first2=Alain|last3=Troitskaya|first3=Irina|date=1995|title=The History of Abortion Statistics in Russia and the USSR from 1900 to 1991 |journal=Population: An English Selection|volume=7|pages=39–66|jstor=2949057}}</ref> The Bolsheviks saw abortion as a social evil created by the capitalist system, which left women without the economic means to raise children, forcing them to perform abortions. The Soviet state initially preserved the tsarist ban on abortion, which treated the practice as premeditated murder. However, abortion had been practiced by Russian women for decades and its incidence skyrocketed further as a result of the Russian Civil War, which had left the country economically devastated and made it extremely difficult for many people to have children. The Soviet state recognized that banning abortion would not stop the practice because women would continue using the services of private abortionists. In rural areas, these were often old women who had no medical training, which made their services very dangerous to women's health. In November 1920, the Soviet government legalized abortion in state hospitals. The state considered abortion as a temporary necessary evil, which would disappear in the future communist society, which would be able to provide for all the children conceived.<ref>{{cite book|last=Goldman|first=Wendy Z.|title=Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zD9p0pSBBv4C|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-45816-0}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=December 2021}} In 1936, Joseph Stalin placed prohibitions on abortions, which restricted them to medically recommended cases only, in order to increase population growth after the enormous loss of life in World War I and the Russian Civil War.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Overy|first=Richard|title=The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32Vy2Fj4KFUC&pg=PA425|year=2004|publisher= W. W. Norton Company, Inc|isbn=978-0-14-191224-0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Heer|first=David M.|year=1965|title=Abortion, Contraception, and Population Policy in the Soviet Union|journal=Demography|volume=2|pages=531–539|doi=10.2307/2060137|jstor=2060137| s2cid=46960030|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=USSR1995/> In the 1930s, several countries (Poland, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Mexico) legalized abortion in some special cases (pregnancy from rape, threat to mother's health, fetal malformation). In Japan, abortion was legalized in 1948 by the Eugenic Protection Law,<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Status of abortion in Japan |journal=IPPF Medical Bulletin |volume=1 |issue=6 |page=3 |year=1967 |pmid=12304993 |url=http://www.popline.org/docs/670118 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090205211120/http://www.popline.org/docs/670118 |archive-date=2009-02-05 |access-date=2008-12-10}}</ref> amended in May 1949 to allow abortions for economic reasons.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eugenic Protection Law in Japan |year=1960 |publisher=Institute of Population Problems, Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan |url=https://www.ipss.go.jp/history/EnglishPamphletSeries/pdf/J000008736.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319162944/https://www.ipss.go.jp/history/EnglishPamphletSeries/pdf/J000008736.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=2022-03-19 |access-date=2022-06-26}}</ref> Abortion was legalized in 1952 in Yugoslavia (on a limited basis{{Which|date=October 2021}}), and again in 1955 in the Soviet Union on request. Some Soviet allies (Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania) legalized abortion in the late 1950s under pressure from the Soviets.{{How|date=August 2021}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Akrivopoulou |first=Christina M. |title=Protecting the Genetic Self from Biometric Threats: Autonomy, Identity, and Genetic Privacy: Autonomy, Identity, and Genetic Privacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=veafBwAAQBAJ|year=2015|publisher=IGI Global|isbn=978-1-4666-8154-5|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=veafBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA160 160]}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=November 2021}}

In the United Kingdom, the Abortion Act of 1967 clarified and prescribed abortions as legal up to 28 weeks (later reduced to 24 weeks). Other countries soon followed, including Canada (1969), the United States (1973 in most states, pursuant to ''Roe v. Wade''—the U.S. Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion nationwide until 2022), Tunisia and Denmark (1973), Austria (1974), France and Sweden (1975), New Zealand (1977), Italy (1978), the Netherlands (1984), and Belgium (1990). However, these countries vary greatly in the circumstances under which abortion was to be permitted.

In 1975, the West German Supreme Court struck down a law legalizing abortion, holding that it contradicted the constitution's human rights guarantees. In 1976, a law was adopted which enabled abortions up to 12 weeks. After Germany's reunification, despite the legal status of abortion in former East Germany, a compromise was reached which deemed most abortions up to 12 weeks legal, but this law was struck down by the Federal Constitutional Court and amended only to remove the punishment in such cases, without any statement to legality.

In jurisdictions governed under sharia law, abortion after the 120th day from conception (19 weeks from LMP) is illegal, especially for those who follow the recommendations of the Hanafi legal school, while most jurists of the Maliki legal school "believe that ensoulment occurs at the moment of conception, and they tend to forbid abortion at any point [similar to the Roman Catholic Church]. The other schools hold intermediate positions. ... The penalty prescribed for an illegal abortion varies according to particular circumstances involved. According to sharia, it should be limited to a fine that is paid to the father or heirs of the fetus."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Campo|first=Juan Eduardo|title=Encyclopedia of Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZbyz_Hr-eIC|year=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2696-8|page=[https://books.google.com/books/about/Encyclopedia_of_Islam.html?id=OZbyz_Hr–eIC&pg=PA7 7]}}</ref>

==Timeline of abortion on request== {{See also|Timeline of reproductive rights legislation}}

The table below lists in chronological order the United Nations member states that have legalized abortion on request in at least some initial part of the pregnancy, or that have fully decriminalized abortion. As of 2025, 67 countries have legalized or decriminalized abortion on request.

Where a country has legalized abortion on request, prohibited it, and legalized it again (e.g., former Soviet Union, Romania), only the later year is included. Countries that result from the merger of states where abortion on request was legal at the moment of unification show the year when it became legal across the whole national territory (e.g., Germany, Vietnam). Similarly, countries where not all subnational jurisdictions have legalized abortion on request are not included, leading to the exclusion of Australia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Countries where abortion on request was once legalized nationwide but has since been prohibited in at least part of the country, such as the United States and Poland, are also excluded. Countries are counted even if they were not yet independent at the time. The year refers to when the relevant law or judicial decision came into force, which may be different from the year when it was approved.

{{sticky table start}} {{table alignment}} {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable sticky-table-head col-1right col-2right" |- ! scope="col" style=width:1em | Year legalized ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Countries ! scope="col" style=width:1em | {{Abbr|CpY|Countries per year}} ! scope="col" style=width:1em | {{Abbr|CC|Cumulative countries}} |- ! scope="row" | 1955 | {{ubl | ''{{flagg|**p|Armenia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU|The former Soviet republics legalized abortion as part of the Soviet Union in 1955.}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Azerbaijan|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Belarus|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Estonia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Georgia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Kazakhstan|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Kyrgyzstan|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Latvia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Lithuania|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Moldova|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Russia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Tajikistan|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Turkmenistan|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Ukraine|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Uzbekistan|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=SU}} }} | 15 | 15 |- ! scope="row" | 1957 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|China|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>Various sources: * [https://web.archive.org/web/20051227114327fw_/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/chinas1.doc China], Population Policy Data Bank, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2001. Archived from [http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/chinas1.doc the original] on 27 December 2005. * {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cf3WCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 | isbn=978-1-59884-134-3 | title=Religion and the State: An International Analysis of Roles and Relationships | date=14 July 2009 | publisher=Abc-Clio}} * {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_yrbXvyv0YC&pg=PA149 | isbn=978-0-8047-1887-5 | title=China's Changing Population | year=1987 | publisher=Stanford University Press}} * {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MdnhI-FRWmAC&pg=PA22 | isbn=978-1-134-34976-0 | title=Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China | date=16 December 2005 | publisher=Routledge}}</ref>{{efn|name=cn2|In 2021, the Chinese government issued guidelines reducing "non-medically necessary" abortions as a "step toward women's development".<ref>[http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/2021-09/27/content_5639412.htm 国务院关于印发中国妇女发展纲要和中国儿童发展纲要的通知], Government of the People's Republic of China, 2021 {{in lang|zh}}.</ref> The guidelines do not provide detail on what a "non-medically necessary" abortion is, nor what specific policies the government has planned to achieve this goal.<ref>Yaqiu, Wang (27 September 2021). [https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/27/beijing-reduce-non-medically-necessary-abortions "Beijing to Reduce 'Non-Medically Necessary' Abortions"]. Human Rights Watch.</ref><ref>Ahmed, Kaamil (27 September 2021). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/27/china-to-limit-abortions-for-non-medical-purposes "China to clamp down on abortions for 'non-medical purposes'"]. ''The Guardian''.</ref>}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Czech Republic|pref=Abortion in the}}''{{efn|name=CS|The Czech Republic and Slovakia legalized abortion as part of the Czechoslovakia in 1957. The law from 1957 legalizing the abortion on request was limited in 1962 when additional approval for each abortion had to be obtained from so called Abort Commission (which rejected about 15% of the requests). The Abort Commissions were abolished by law in 1986. Until 1993 each approved abortion was paid by state.<ref name="renamed_from_1957_on_20230412104558">{{cite web |title=Zákon č. 68/1957 Sb., o umělém přerušení těhotenství |url=https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/1957-68 |website=Zákony pro lidi |access-date=12 April 2023 |language=Czech |date=1957}}</ref><ref name="potratovost">{{cite web |title=Vývoj potratovosti v České republice 2003 - 2014 |url=https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/20562549/13008315a01.pdf/37bea5ec-f3b9-4a36-8804-d2dcb4b117c8?version=1.0 |website=Český statistický úřad |access-date=12 April 2023 |date=2014 |archive-date=12 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512220642/https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/20562549/13008315a01.pdf/37bea5ec-f3b9-4a36-8804-d2dcb4b117c8?version=1.0 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Slovakia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=CS}} }} | 3 | 18 |- ! scope="row" | 1965 | {{flagg|**p|Cuba|pref=Abortion in}} | 1 | 19 |- ! scope="row" | 1973 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Denmark|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Tunisia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=tn/> }} | 2 | 21 |- ! scope="row" | 1974 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Singapore|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Sweden|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 2 | 23 |- ! scope="row" | 1975 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Austria|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|France|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|In some parts of Overseas France, abortion on request became legal in 2001.<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000222631 Law no. 2001-588 of 4 July 2001 regarding voluntary interruption of pregnancy and contraception], Légifrance {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://www.tahiti-infos.com/L-interruption-volontaire-de-grossesse-legale-en-Polynesie-depuis-2001_a164320.html Voluntary interruption of pregnancy legal in Polynesia since 2001], Tahiti Infos, 4 September 2017 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/nouvellecaledonie/2014/11/27/26-ans-apres-la-loi-veil-la-nouvelle-caledonie-legalisait-l-avortement-210490.html 26 years after the Veil Act, New Caledonia legalized abortion], France TV, 27 November 2014 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>}} | {{flagg|**p|Vietnam|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=sub|Year when all subnational jurisdictions legalized abortion on request.}}}} | 3 | 26 |- ! scope="row" | 1977 | {{ubl | ''{{flagg|**p|Bosnia and Herzegovina|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=YU|The former Yugoslav republics legalized abortion as part of Yugoslavia in 1977.}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Croatia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=YU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Montenegro|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=YU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|North Macedonia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=YU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Serbia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=YU}} | ''{{flagg|**p|Slovenia|pref=Abortion in}}''{{efn|name=YU}} }} | 6 | 32 |- ! scope="row" | 1978 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Italy|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Luxembourg|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 2 | 34 |- ! scope="row" | 1979 | {{flagg|**p|Norway|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|Including Svalbard. The law legalizing abortion on request was approved in 1978 and came into force in 1979.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/NLO/lov/1975-06-13-50 |title=Lov om svangerskapsavbrudd (abortloven) |trans-title=Law on termination of pregnancy (abortion law) |publisher=Lovdata |language=no |at=Article 15}} "[A]mending law of 16 June 1978 no. 66 from 1 January 1979 according to resolution of 1 December 1978."</ref>}} | 1 | 35 |- ! scope="row" | 1983 | {{flagg|**p|Turkey|pref=Abortion in}} | 1 | 36 |- ! scope="row" | 1984 | {{flagg|**p|Netherlands|pref=Abortion in the}}{{efn|In the Caribbean Netherlands, abortion on request became legal in 2011.<ref name=bq1/><ref name=bq2/>}} | 1 | 37 |- ! scope="row" | 1986 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Cape Verde|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Greece|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 2 | 39 |- ! scope="row" | 1988 | {{flagg|**p|Canada|pref=Abortion in}} | 1 | 40 |- ! scope="row" | 1989 | {{flagg|**p|Mongolia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Tsogt|first1=Bazarragchaa|last2=Seded|first2=Khishgee|last3=Johnson|first3=Brooke R.|last4=Strategic Assessment Team|display-authors=|date=2 September 2008|title=Applying the WHO Strategic Approach to Strengthening First and Second Trimester Abortion Services in Mongolia|url=|journal=Reproductive Health Matters|volume=16|issue=31 Suppl|pages=127–134|doi=10.1016/S0968-8080(08)31383-4|pmid=18772093|s2cid=206112339 |issn=0968-8080|eissn=1460-9576|via=Taylor & Francis Group|doi-access=|hdl=10986/5367|hdl-access=free}}</ref> | 1 | 41 |- ! scope="row" | 1990 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Belgium|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Bulgaria|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Romania|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 3 | 44 |- ! scope="row" | 1992 | {{flagg|**p|Germany|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|After explicit legalization struck down by supreme court decision, the law only removes punishment for abortion on request but with no statement about its legality.}} | 1 | 45 |- ! scope="row" | 1993 | {{flagg|**p|Guinea-Bissau|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=gw/><ref>[https://www.fd.unl.pt/Anexos/Investigacao/1274.pdf Portuguese Penal Code of 1886], University of Coimbra, 1919. Article 358 {{in lang|pt}}.</ref> | 1 | 46 |- ! scope="row" | 1995 | {{flagg|**p|Guyana|pref=Abortion in}} | 1 | 47 |- ! scope="row" | 1996 | {{flagg|**p|Albania|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|The law legalizing abortion on request was approved in 1995 and came into force in 1996.<ref name=al/>}} | 1 | 48 |- ! scope="row" | 1997 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Cambodia|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|South Africa|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 2 | 50 |- ! scope="row" | 2002 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Nepal|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Switzerland|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 2 | 52 |- ! scope="row" | 2007 | {{flagg|**p|Portugal|pref=Abortion in}} | 1 | 53 |- ! scope="row" | 2010 | {{flagg|**p|Spain|pref=Abortion in}} | 1 | 54 |- ! scope="row" | 2012 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|São Tomé and Príncipe|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=st/> | {{flagg|**p|Uruguay|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 2 | 56 |- ! scope="row" | 2015 | {{flagg|**p|Mozambique|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|The law legalizing abortion on request was approved in 2014 and came into force in 2015.<ref>[https://reformar.co.mz/documentos-diversos/lei-35-2014-aprova-o-codigo-penal-1.pdf Law of revision of the Penal Code], Gazette of the Republic of Mozambique, 31 December 2014. "The present law enters into force one hundred and eighty days after its publication." {{in lang|pt}}</ref>}} | 1 | 57 |- ! scope="row" | 2018 | {{flagg|**p|Cyprus|pref=Abortion in}} | 1 | 58 |- ! scope="row" | 2019 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Iceland|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Ireland|pref=Abortion in the}}{{efn|The law legalizing abortion on request was approved in 2018 and came into force in 2019.<ref>{{Cite act|type=S.I.|index=594|date=2018|title=Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 (Commencement) Order 2018|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/pdf/2018/en.si.2018.0594.pdf}}</ref>}} }} | 2 | 60 |- ! scope="row" | 2020 | {{flagg|**p|New Zealand|pref=Abortion in}} | 1 | 61 |- ! scope="row" | 2021 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Argentina|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|The law legalizing abortion on request was approved in 2020 and came into force in 2021.<ref name=ar/>}} | {{flagg|**p|South Korea|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|Thailand|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 3 | 64 |- ! scope="row" | 2022 | {{ubl | {{flagg|**p|Colombia|pref=Abortion in}} | {{flagg|**p|San Marino|pref=Abortion in}} }} | 2 | 66 |- ! scope="row" | 2023 | {{flagg|**p|Finland|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=fi}} | 1 | 67 |} {{sticky table end}} {| class="wikitable" |+ Abortion-rights constitutional amendments |- ! !! Country !! Date of passage |- | 1 || {{flagicon|France}} France || 4 March 2024<ref name="ap-abortion">{{cite news |last1=Surk|first1=Barbara|last2=Garriga|first2=Nicolas|title=France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right|url=https://apnews.com/article/france-abortion-right-constitution-parliament-vote-versailles-d6ce4fb3a6a7288033f58235b65f570e|access-date=4 March 2024|work=AP News|publisher=The Associated Press|date=4 March 2024|language=en}}</ref><ref name="nyt-abortion">{{cite news |last1=Porter|first1=Catherine|title=French Lawmakers Enshrine Access to Abortion in Constitution|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/world/europe/france-abortion-rights-constitution.html|access-date=4 March 2024|work=The New York Times|date=4 March 2024}}</ref> |- | 2 || {{flagicon|Luxembourg}} Luxembourg || 3 March 2026<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luxembourg MPs Vote to Enshrine Right to Abortion in Constitution|url=http://www.chronicle.lu/category/legal-ip/59923-luxembourg-mps-vote-to-enshrine-right-to-abortion-in-constitution|access-date=2026-03-05|website=Chronicle.lu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Luxembourg lawmakers vote to enshrine freedom to have an abortion in constitution|url=http://constitutionnet.org/news/luxembourg-lawmakers-vote-enshrine-freedom-have-abortion-constitution|access-date=2026-03-05|website=ConstitutionNet|language=en}}</ref> |}

==International law== There are no international or multinational treaties that deal directly with abortion but human rights law and international criminal law touch on the issues.

The Nuremberg Military Tribunal decided the case of ''United States v Greifelt and Others'' (1948) on the basis that abortion was a crime within its jurisdiction according to the law defining crimes against humanity and thus within its definition of murder and extermination.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/Law-Reports_Vol-13.pdf|title=Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals|publisher=United Nations War Crimes Commission|year=1949|volume=XIII|location=London|access-date=22 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718182042/https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/Law-Reports_Vol-13.pdf|archive-date=18 July 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Catholic Church remains highly influential in Latin America, and opposes the legalisation of abortion.<ref name=bbc/> The American Convention on Human Rights, which in 2013 had 23 Latin American parties, declares human life as commencing with conception. In Latin America, abortion on request is only legal in Cuba (1965), Uruguay (2012),<ref>{{Cite news|date=17 October 2012|title=En Uruguay, le Parlement vote la dépénalisation de l'avortement|language=fr|newspaper=Le Monde|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2012/10/17/en-uruguay-le-parlement-vote-la-depenalisation-de-l-avortement_1776959_3222.html|access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref> Argentina (2021),<ref name=ar/> Colombia (2022)<ref name=co2/> and in parts of Mexico.<ref name=mx1/><ref name=mx2/> Abortions are completely banned in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, and only allowed in certain restricted circumstances in most other Latin American nations.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|date=30 December 2020|title=Argentina abortion: Senate approves legalisation in historic decision|work=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55475036|access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref>

In the 2010 case of ''A, B and C v Ireland'', the European Court of Human Rights found that the European Convention on Human Rights did not include a right to an abortion.

In 2005, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) ordered Peru to compensate a woman (known as K.L.) for denying her a medically indicated abortion; this was the first time a United Nations Committee had held any country accountable for not ensuring access to safe, legal abortion, and the first time the committee affirmed that abortion is a human right.<ref name="huffingtonpost.com">{{Cite news|last=Grimes|first=David A.|date=25 January 2016|title=United Nations Committee Affirms Abortion As A Human Right|work=HuffPost|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-nations-committee-affirms-abortion-as-a-human-right_b_9020806|access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref> K.L. received the compensation in 2016.<ref name="huffingtonpost.com"/> In the 2016 case of ''Mellet v Ireland'', the UN HRC found Ireland's abortion laws violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights because Irish law banned abortion in cases of fatal fetal abnormalities.

==National laws== While abortions are legal at least under certain conditions in almost all countries, these conditions vary widely. According to a United Nations (UN) report with data gathered up to 2019,<ref name=UN2019report>[https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/policy/WPP2017/WPP2017_Report.pdf World Population Policies 2017: Abortion Laws and Policies], United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2020.</ref> abortion is allowed in 98% of countries in order to save a woman's life. Other commonly accepted reasons are preserving physical (72%) or mental health (69%), in cases of rape or incest (61%), and in cases of fetal impairment (61%). Performing an abortion because of economic or social reasons is accepted in 37% of countries. Performing abortion only on the basis of a woman's request is allowed in 34% of countries, including in Canada, most European countries and China.<ref name=UN2019report/>

The exact scope of each legal ground also varies. For example, the laws of some countries cite health risks and fetal impairment as general grounds for abortion and allow a broad interpretation of such terms in practice, while other countries restrict them to a specific list of medical conditions or subcategories. Many countries that allow abortion have gestational limits for the procedure depending on the reason; with the majority being up to 12 weeks for abortion on request, up to 24 weeks for social, economic, rape, or incest reasons, and more for fetal impairment or threats to the woman's health or life.{{r|UN2019report|p=26}}

In some countries, additional procedures must be followed before the abortion can be carried out even if the basic grounds for it are met. How strictly all of the procedures dictated in the legislation are followed in practice is another matter. For example, in the United Kingdom, a Care Quality Commission's report in 2012 found that several NHS clinics were circumventing the law, using forms pre-signed by one doctor, thus allowing abortions to patients who only met with one doctor.<ref name=CQC2012>{{cite web|title=Findings of termination of pregnancy inspections published|url=http://www.cqc.org.uk/media/findings-termination-pregnancy-inspections-published|publisher=Care Quality Commission|access-date=17 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717213356/http://www.cqc.org.uk/media/findings-termination-pregnancy-inspections-published|archive-date=17 July 2012}}</ref>

===Summary tables=== {| class="wikitable collapsible" style="line-height: 1.3;" |+ Legend | {{yes|Permitted}} |- | {{yes2|Permitted, with complex legality or practice}} |- | {{partial|Varies by subdivision}} |- | {{no2|Prohibited, with complex legality or practice}} |- | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{n/a|Unknown or unclear}} |}

====Countries==== The table below summarizes the legal grounds for abortion in all United Nations member states and United Nations General Assembly observer states and some countries with limited recognition. This table is mostly based on data compiled by the United Nations up to 2019,<ref name=UN2019data>[https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/theme/policy/GAPP_country_data.xlsx Table 2: Countries by legal grounds for abortion (recoded)], United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Policies 2017: Abortion laws and policies.</ref> with some updates, additions and clarifications citing other sources.

{{sticky table start}} {| class="wikitable sortable sticky-table-head sticky-table-col1 collapsible" style="line-height: 1.3;" |+ Legal grounds on which abortion is permitted in independent countries |- ! Country ! style="width: 6em;" | Risk to life ! style="width: 6em;" | Risk to health ! style="width: 6em;" | Rape ! style="width: 6em;" | Fetal impairment ! style="width: 6em;" | Economic or social ! style="width: 6em;" | On request |- | {{flagg|**p|Abkhazia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"О здравоохранении" [On Health Care]. [http://presidentofabkhazia.org/upload/iblock/c55/14-Закон%20РА%20О%20здравоохранении.pdf ''Article 40, Law of 29 January 2016''] {{in lang|ru}}. People's Assembly of Abkhazia.</ref> | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Afghanistan|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=af|The law of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan consisted primarily of statutory law and a limited use of Islamic jurisprudence.<ref>[https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Afghanistan_2004.pdf Afghanistan's Constitution of 2004], Constitute.</ref> The Afghan penal code criminalized abortion and only removed the penalty if the abortion was prescribed by a doctor to save the woman's life,<ref>[https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4c58395a2.pdf Penal Code], Government of the Republic of Afghanistan, 7 October 1976.</ref><ref>[https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl-nat.nsf/xsp/.ibmmodres/domino/OpenAttachment/applic/ihl/ihl-nat.nsf/598034855221CE85C12582480054D831/TEXT/2017%20Penal%20Code_OG.PDF Penal Code], Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, 15 May 2017 {{in lang|ps|prs}}.</ref> but other sources said that Afghanistan also allowed abortion in case of fetal impairment,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hasrat-Nazimi|first=Waslat|date=5 May 2012|title=Afghan women use abortion as a way out|url=https://www.dw.com/en/afghan-women-use-abortion-as-a-way-out/a-17612865|work=Deutsche Welle}}</ref> and rarely for economic reasons if accepted by a religious council.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Engel Rasmussen|first1=Sune|last2=Faizi|first2=Fatima|date=26 April 2017|title='I am a criminal. What is my crime?': the human toll of abortion in Afghanistan|url=http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/apr/26/human-toll-abortion-afghanistan|work=The Guardian}}</ref> After the 2021 Taliban offensive, the new government announced its intention to implement Islamic law exclusively, and it is unclear which legal grounds for abortion it accepts.<ref>[https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/23/hold-the-taliban-and-sharia-law-in-afghanistan Explainer: The Taliban and Islamic law in Afghanistan], Al Jazeera, 23 August 2021.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=af}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=af}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Albania|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=al>"Për ndërprerjen e shtatëzënësisë" [On the Interruption of Pregnancy]. [https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/12/07/8045 ''Law No. 8045 of 7 December 1995''] {{in lang|sq}}. Parliament of Albania.</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Algeria|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.santemaghreb.com/algerie/recueil_txt_regl.pdf Collection of Regulatory Texts relative to the Management of Health Establishments], Med Ould-Kada, December 2020. Law 85-05 of 16 February 1985 regarding the protection and promotion of health. Article 72 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Andorra|pref=Abortion in}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The UN source says that this ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is accepted as a general legal principle.<ref>[http://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/LAO/article_VII/legislation_database/AD_Codi%20Penal%2023-03-05%20i%20altres%20Bopa17-025.pdf Law 9/2005, of 21 February, qualified of the Penal code], Official Gazette of the Principality of Andorra, number 25, year 17, 23 March 2005. Articles 27, 107–109 {{in lang|ca}}.</ref> However, other sources say that abortion is not legally allowed under any circumstance in Andorra.<ref name="Bernhard 2019">{{Cite news|last=Bernhard|first=Meg|date=22 October 2019|title=Andorra's abortion rights revolution|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/andorras-abortion-rights-revolution|work=Politico Europe|access-date=25 April 2021}}</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Angola|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|The UN source incorrectly shows Angola as allowing abortion on request, citing a penal code draft from 2014 that did not become law.<ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/01-Angola-Penal-Code-2014.pdf Penal code draft], Global Abortion Policies Database, World Health Organization {{in lang|pt}}.</ref> The version of the penal code enacted in 2020 and entered into force in 2021 allows abortion only in certain circumstances.<ref>[https://plataformacipra.gov.ao/public/ficheiros/arquivos/Gov_AngolaLegisla%C3%A7%C3%A3o982801221101131643367673.pdf Law that approves the Angolan Penal Code], Journal of the Republic of Angola, 11 November 2020. Articles 154–158 {{in lang|pt}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Antigua and Barbuda|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://laws.gov.ag/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cap-216.pdf Infant Life (Preservation) Act], Laws of Antigua and Barbuda.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}}{{efn|A 2001 UN source says that abortion must be performed within the first 16 weeks and that it may be permitted after this period under very exceptional circumstances.<ref name=ag>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051227114327fw_/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/antigua1.doc Antigua and Barbuda], Population Policy Data Bank, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2001. Archived from [http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/antigua1.doc the original] on 27 December 2005.</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|Before independence, a judicial decision in the parent country allowed abortion for this ground, but the decision has not been explicitly recognized by Antigua and Barbuda.<ref name=ag/><ref name=caribbean>{{Cite web|last1=Pheterson|first1=Gail|last2=Azize|first2=Yamila|date=c. 2005|title=Safe Illegal Abortion: An Inter-Island Study in the Northeast Caribbean|url=https://md.rcm.upr.edu/download/safe-illegal-abortion-an-inter-island-study-in-the-northeast-caribbean/?wpdmdl=499&refresh=61946f4fe14e71637117775|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117031500/https://md.rcm.upr.edu/download/safe-illegal-abortion-an-inter-island-study-in-the-northeast-caribbean/?wpdmdl=499&refresh=61946f4fe14e71637117775|archive-date=17 November 2021|access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref>{{rp|14}}}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Argentina|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=ar>"Acceso a la Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo" [Access to Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy]. [http://www.msal.gob.ar/dlsn/categorias/persona-humana/mujer/ley-27610 ''Law No. 27.610 of 30 December 2020''] {{in lang|es}}. National Congress of Argentina.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bancos.salud.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2023-06/Protocolo_IVE_%202023_2562023.pdf |title=Protocolo para la atención integral de las personas con derecho a la interrupción voluntaria y legal del embarazo |trans-title=Protocol for the comprehensive care of people with the right to voluntary and legal interruption of pregnancy |publisher=Ministry of Health |date=2022 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605174438/https://bancos.salud.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2023-06/Protocolo_IVE_%202023_2562023.pdf |archive-date=5 June 2024}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Armenia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.parliament.am/legislation.php?sel=show&ID=1339&lang=arm Law of Armenia on Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights], Government of Armenia {{in lang|hy}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Australia|pref=Abortion in}} [subdivisions] | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|Abortion for this ground is permitted in all subdivisions except the Northern Territory.<ref name=nswresearch>[https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpapers/Documents/Abortion%20Law.pdf Abortion law: a national perspective], Tom Gotsis and Laura Ismay, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, May 2017, pp. 13, 40. This government publication, reflecting laws up to 2017 (including the Termination of Pregnancy Law Reform Act 2017 in the Northern Territory), lists New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory as the subdivisions of Australia not allowing abortion on request. Since then, laws allowing abortion on request have entered into force in Queensland (2018), New South Wales (2019) and South Australia (2022). The abortion law in the Northern Territory was amended in 2021 but still requires approval by a medical professional based on the same criteria as in 2017, thus it is still not considered as allowing abortion on request.</ref><ref name=conv>[https://theconversation.com/abortion-is-no-longer-a-crime-in-australia-but-legal-hurdles-to-access-remain-156215 Abortion is no longer a crime in Australia. But legal hurdles to access remain], The Conversation, 3 March 2021. "With the exception of the Northern Territory, where abortion remains a medical practitioner's decision regardless of the gestation, and the ACT, where no gestational limits apply, Australian jurisdictions now permit abortion on request up to varying points in a pregnancy."</ref>}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-au" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Australian Capital Territory|pref=Abortion in the}}<ref>[https://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/1900-40/ Crimes Act 1900], ACT Legislation Register.</ref><ref>[https://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/1993-13/ Health Act 1993], ACT Legislation Register.</ref>{{efn|Also applies to Jervis Bay Territory.<ref>[https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1915A00019/latest/text Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915], Federal Register of Legislation.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-au" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|New South Wales|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-2019-011 Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 No 11], NSW legislation.</ref>{{efn|name=nf|Most laws of New South Wales and Queensland, including their abortion laws, are set to apply to Norfolk Island after 2026.<ref>[https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2016L00729/latest/text Norfolk Island Applied Laws Ordinance 2016], Federal Register of Legislation.</ref><ref>[https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2021L01821/latest/text Norfolk Island Applied Laws and Service Delivery (Queensland) Ordinance 2021], Federal Register of Legislation.</ref> The Criminal Code of Norfolk Island, which remains in force in the territory, does not prohibit abortion.<ref>[https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2015Q00110/latest/text Criminal Code 2007 (NI)], Federal Register of Legislation.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-au" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Northern Territory|pref=Abortion in the}}<ref name=aunt>[https://legislation.nt.gov.au/en/Legislation/TERMINATION-OF-PREGNANCY-LAW-REFORM-ACT-2017 Termination of Pregnancy Law Reform Act 2017], Northern Territory Legislation.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=aunt|Abortion up to 24 weeks may be performed if the medical practitioner considers the abortion is appropriate in all the circumstances, having regard to all relevant medical circumstances, the woman's current and future physical, psychological and social circumstances, and professional standards and guidelines. Later abortion may be performed, if two medical practitioners consider the abortion is appropriate in all the circumstances, having regard to the mentioned matters.<ref name=aunt/> These criteria are not considered as allowing abortion on request.<ref name=nswresearch/><ref name=conv/>}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-au" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Queensland|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-2018-023 Termination of Pregnancy Act 2018], Queensland Legislation.</ref>{{efn|name=nf}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-au" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|South Australia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/TERMINATION%20OF%20PREGNANCY%20ACT%202021.aspx Termination of Pregnancy Act 2021], South Australian Legislation.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks and 6 days}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-au" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Tasmania|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.legislation.tas.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-2013-072 Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Act 2013], Tasmanian Legislation.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-au" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Victoria|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/abortion-law-reform-act-2008 Abortion Law Reform Act 2008], Victorian Legislation.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-au" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Western Australia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/statutes.nsf/law_a147114.html Public Health Act 2016], Western Australian Legislation. Sections 202MC to 202ME.</ref>{{efn|Also applies to Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.<ref>[https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1958A00041/latest/text Christmas Island Act 1958], Federal Register of Legislation.</ref><ref>[https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1955A00034/latest/text Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955], Federal Register of Legislation.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|23 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Austria|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10002296 Criminal Code], Federal Legal Information System of Austria. Sections 96–98 {{in lang|de}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | data-sort-value="13.1 weeks" {{yes|3 months}}{{efn|name=at|If the woman was under age 14 when getting pregnant, no limit is specified.}} | {{yes|No limit}} | data-sort-value="13.1 weeks" {{yes|3 months}}{{efn|name=at}} | data-sort-value="13.1 weeks" {{yes|3 months}}{{efn|name=at}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Azerbaijan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://sehiyye.gov.az/ehalinin_saqlamliqi_qorunmasi_haqqinda_qanun.html Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Protection of Public Health], Ministry of Public Health {{in lang|az}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Bahamas|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/1873/1873-0015/PenalCode_1.pdf Penal Code] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421040918/http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/1873/1873-0015/PenalCode_1.pdf |date=21 April 2017 }}, Statute Law of the Bahamas. Article 313.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=therapeutic}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Bahrain|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bh|The UN source marks it as a legal ground because the Penal Code explicitly prohibits abortion only if performed without the consent of the woman and of a medical practitioner.<ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/01b-Bahrain-PenalCode-EN-1976.pdf Bahrain Penal Code, 1976], Global Abortion Policies Database, World Health Organization.</ref> However, the decree regulating medical practice prohibits abortion unless the pregnancy threatens the woman's life.<ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/02b-Bahrain-Legislative-Decree-English-1989.pdf Legislative decree no. 7 for 1989 on the practice of human medicine and dentistry], Ministry of Health of Bahrain, Global Abortion Policies Database, World Health Organization.</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bh}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bh}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bh}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bh}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Bangladesh|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bd|The UN source does not explicitly mark this legal ground for abortion but says that "Menstrual regulation is available on request for women with a last menstrual period of 10 weeks or less."<ref name=UN2019data/>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bd}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bd}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bd}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=bd}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Barbados|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://104.238.85.55/en/ShowPdf/44A.pdf Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505212058/http://104.238.85.55/en/ShowPdf/44A.pdf |date=5 May 2022 }}, Government of Barbados, 10 May 1983.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Belarus|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|The law permits abortion for medical reasons without gestational limit, for social reasons up to 22 weeks of gestation, and on request up to 12 weeks of gestation.<ref>[https://pravo.by/document/?guid=3871&p0=v19302435 Law of the Republic of Belarus on health care], National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus {{in lang|ru}}.</ref> By regulation, fetal impairment is included as a medical reason,<ref>[https://pravo.by/upload/docs/op/W21429399_1419368400.pdf Resolution of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus on the establishment of a list of medical indications for artificial termination of pregnancy], National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus, 24 December 2014 {{in lang|ru}}.</ref> and rape is included as a social reason.<ref>[https://pravo.by/document/?guid=3961&p0=C20801580 Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on the establishment of a list of social indications for artificial termination of pregnancy], National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus {{in lang|ru}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Belgium|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2018101503&table_name=loi|title=LOI – WET|website=www.ejustice.just.fgov.be}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|14 weeks}}{{efn|name=be|Defined as 12 weeks from conception, considered as 14 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref>[https://www.belgium.be/fr/famille/enfants/planning_familial Family planning], Belgian Federal Public Service {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|14 weeks}}{{efn|name=be}} | {{yes|14 weeks}}{{efn|name=be}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Belize|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://bco.gov.bz/download/criminal-code-chapter-101-of-the-laws-of-belize-revised-edition-2020 Criminal Code, Chapter 101 of the Laws of Belize (Revised Edition 2020)], Belize Crime Observatory.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Benin|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://sgg.gouv.bj/doc/loi-2021-12/ Law no. 2012-12 of 20 December 2021], General Secretariat of the Government of Benin {{in lang|fr}}. Published on 7 January 2022.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Bhutan|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|The penal code prohibits abortion except to save the woman's life, when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest, or when the woman is of unsound mental condition.<ref name=bt1>[https://www.judiciary.gov.bt/forms/PENAL%20CODE.pdf Penal Code of Bhutan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003002751/https://www.judiciary.gov.bt/forms/PENAL%20CODE.pdf |date=3 October 2021 }}, Judiciary of Bhutan.</ref> Guidelines for health workers mention grounds of risk to the woman's health and fetal impairment, and define a gestational limit of 180 days.<ref name=bt2>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/03-Bhutan-Standard-Guidelines-on-Management-of-Complications-of-Abortion-Ministry-of-Health.pdf Standard Guidelines for the Health Workers on Management of Complication of Abortion], Ministry of Health of Bhutan.</ref>}} | data-sort-value="25 weeks" {{yes|180 days}} | data-sort-value="25 weeks" {{yes2|180 days}}{{efn|name=bt|This ground is only cited in guidelines for health workers, not by law.<ref name=bt1/><ref name=bt2/>}} | data-sort-value="25 weeks" {{yes|180 days}} | data-sort-value="25 weeks" {{yes2|180 days}}{{efn|name=bt}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Bolivia|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes2|22 weeks}}{{efn|This ground is established by a regulation implementing a judicial decision, although it is not mentioned in the decision itself or in the law.<ref>[https://www.comunidad.org.bo/assets/archivos/herramienta/3268d0d95eb0330b3f3eef1cb4024bcc.pdf Technical procedure for the provision of health services in the framework of the Plurinational Constitutional Sentence 0206/2014], Ministry of Health of Bolivia, 2015. {{in lang|es}}</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Bosnia and Herzegovina|pref=Abortion in}} [subdivisions] | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ba" | {{spaces|3}}{{noflag|Brčko District}}{{efn|name=ba|Continues to apply the abortion law of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<ref>[https://ba.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/ljudska_prava_u_oblasti_seksualnog_i_reproduktivnog_zdravlja_u_bih.pdf Human rights in the field of sexual and reproductive health in Bosnia and Herzegovina], Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Nations Population Fund, January 2021 {{in lang|sh}}.</ref><ref>[https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/llglrd/2019669520/2019669520.pdf Abortion Legislation, Bosnia Herzegovina, Russia, Ukraine], Law Library of Congress, July 2007.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ba" | {{spaces|3}}{{noflag|Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina}}{{efn|name=ba}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ba" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Republika Srpska|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.narodnaskupstinars.net/?q=la/akti/usvojeni-zakoni/zakon-o-uslovima-i-postupku-za-prekid-trudno%C4%87e Law on the conditions and procedure for interruption of pregnancy], National Assembly of Republika Srpska.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Botswana|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/61336/92021/F138317428/BWA61336.pdf Penal Code], Government of Botswana. Article 160.</ref> | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Brazil|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=br1>[http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/decreto-lei/del2848compilado.htm Penal Code], Decree-Law no. 2848, of 7 December 1940, Presidency of Brazil. Articles 124 to 128 {{in lang|pt}}.</ref><ref name=br2>[https://www.defensoria.sp.def.br/documents/20122/ec2f6b24-3f15-5ec7-e7bd-7c55fdc4df1d Reproductive rights: legal abortion], Public Defenders' Office of the State of São Paulo, December 2023 {{in lang|pt}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=br|The penal code criminalizes abortion except if done to save the woman's life or if the pregnancy is the result of rape.<ref name=br1/> Due to a decision by the Supreme Federal Court, abortion is also permitted in case of anencephaly, and it may also be authorized by court order in other fatal cases of fetal impairment.<ref name=br2/><ref>[https://www.conjur.com.br/2020-jan-20/malformacao-inviabiliza-vida-bebe-justifica-aval-aborto Malformation that renders baby's life inviable justifies authorization for abortion, judge decides], Consultor Jurídico, 20 January 2020 {{in lang|pt}}.</ref><ref>[https://ibdfam.org.br/index.php/noticias/7605/Mulher+consegue+autoriza%C3%A7%C3%A3o+judicial+para+interromper+gravidez+de+risco Woman obtains judicial authorization to interrupt risky pregnancy], Brazilian Family Law Institute, 11 August 2020 {{in lang|pt}}.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Brunei|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.agc.gov.bn/AGC%20Images/LAWS/Gazette_PDF/2013/EN/s069.pdf Syariah Penal Code Order, 2013], Brunei Darussalam Government Gazette, 22 October 2013. Articles 158–164.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Bulgaria|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.lex.bg/mobile/ldoc/-552069119 Ordinance no. 2 of 1 February 1990 on the conditions and procedure for artificial termination of pregnancy], Lex.bg {{in lang|bg}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Burkina Faso|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://academiedepolice.bf/index.php/telechargement/category/38-codes?download=163:la-loi-portant-code-penal Law no. 025-018/AN bearing the penal code], Police Academy of Burkina Faso. Articles 513-10 to 513–19 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Burundi|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The penal code says that social demands are taken into account in a conviction for abortion.<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/110597/137609/F-831780004/BDI-110597.pdf Law no. 1/27 of 29 December 2017 bearing revision of the penal code], President of the Republic of Burundi. Article 534 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> It is unclear if this circumstance reduces the penalty or may remove it.}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Cambodia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"Royal Kram on Abortion". [http://moh.gov.kh/content/uploads/Laws_and_Regulations/Law/Law%20on%20Abortion%20Eng.pdf ''Royal Kram of 6 October 1997'']. National Assembly of Cambodia.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Cameroon|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.minsante.cm/site/sites/default/files/Normes%20%26%20Standards%20en%20SR-PF%20au%20%20Cameroun.pdf Norms and Standards in Reproductive Health-Family Planning in Cameroon], Ministry of Health of Cameroon, 2018 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Canada|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|There is no criminal law in Canada relating to abortion, but provincial medical regulations may limit the availability of abortion services, depending on gestational age and medical reasons.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/sexual-health/abortion-canada.html |title=Abortion in Canada |date=26 September 2024 |publisher=Government of Canada}}</ref><ref>[https://nafcanada.org/abortion-coverage-region Abortion Coverage by Region], National Abortion Federation Canada.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.actioncanadashr.org/resources/factsheets-guidelines/2019-09-19-access-glance-abortion-services-canada|title=Access at a Glance: Abortion Services in Canada {{pipe}} Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights|publisher=Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights}}</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Cape Verde|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/01-Cape-Verde-Law-and-Regulation-on-Voluntary-Interruption-of-Pregnancy-1987.pdf law no. 9/iii/86 & decree no. 7/87 https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/15-Cabo-Verde-Resolution-ratifying-Maputo-Protocol-2005.pdf resolution no. 131/vi/2005 https://www.parlamento.cv/GDRevisoesContitucionais.aspx?ImagemId=30</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Central African Republic|pref=Abortion in the}} | {{yes|8 weeks}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The penal code says that abortion may be permitted to an underage woman in a state of grave distress up to 8 weeks.<ref>[https://acjr.org.za/resource-centre/penal-code-of-the-central-african-republic-2010/@@download/file/Penal%20Code%20of%20the%20Central%20African%20Republic%20(2010).pdf Penal Code], 2010. Article 79 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|8 weeks}} | {{yes|8 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Chad|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.droit-afrique.com/uploads/Tchad-Code-penal-2017.pdf Penal Code of Chad], 2017, Droit-Afrique {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://www.droit-afrique.com/upload/doc/tchad/Tchad-Loi-2002-06-promotion-sante-reproduction.pdf Law on the Promotion of Reproductive Health], 2002, Droit-Afrique {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Chile|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=cl>[https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1108237 Law 21,030, Depenalisation of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in Three Causes], Ministry of Health of Chile, 23 September 2017 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|If the woman is under age 14, the gestational limit is 14 weeks.}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|China|pref=Abortion in}} [subdivisions] | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|Abortion for this ground is permitted in mainland China and Hong Kong, but not in Macau.}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|Abortion for this ground is permitted in mainland China, but not in Hong Kong or Macau.}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-cn" | {{spaces|3}}{{noflag|Mainland China}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.cn/banshi/2005-08/01/content_18943.htm |title=中华人民共和国母婴保健法 |trans-title=Maternal and Child Health Care Law of the People's Republic of China |publisher=Government of China |date=27 October 1994 |language=zh}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/c30834/202109/9ab0af08773c465aa91d95648df2a98a.shtml |title=中华人民共和国人口与计划生育法_中国人大网 |trans-title=Population and Family Planning Law of the People's Republic of China |publisher=National People's Congress |date=29 December 2001 |language=zh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510192941/http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/c30834/202109/9ab0af08773c465aa91d95648df2a98a.shtml |archive-date=10 May 2023}}</ref>{{efn|name=cn2}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-cn" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Hong Kong|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/hk/cap212 Cap. 212 Offences against the person ordinance], Hong Kong e-Legislation.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-cn" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Macau|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/95/48/declei59.asp Decree-Law no. 59/95/M], Official Press of Macau, 2004. {{in lang|pt}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Colombia|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|No limit}}{{efn|name=co|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is established by judicial decision.<ref>[https://perso.unifr.ch/derechopenal/assets/files/legislacion/l_20130808_01.pdf Colombian Penal Code (Law 599 of 2000)], compiled by José Fernando Botero Bernal, University of Medellín. Article 122 {{in lang|es}}.</ref><ref name=co/><ref name=co2>[https://colombiareports.com/colombia-decriminalizes-abortion-in-historic-ruling/ Colombia decriminalizes abortion in historic ruling], Colombia Reports, 21 February 2022.</ref>}} | {{yes2|No limit}}{{efn|name=co}} | {{yes2|No limit}}{{efn|name=co}} | {{yes2|No limit}}{{efn|name=co}} | {{yes2|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=co}} | {{yes2|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=co}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Comoros|pref=Abortion in the}}<ref>[http://www.uaipit.com/uploads/legislacion/files/1374835228_6._Law_No.-_082_P_FR.pdf Penal Code], University of Alicante Intellectual Property and Information Technologyart. Article 304 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Congo|pref=Abortion in the}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=cg|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law.<ref>[https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl-nat.nsf/0/e6e0f85dc21697e5c12577110045d5bd/$FILE/82296040.pdf/Congo%20-%20Code%20Penal.pdf Penal Code], Ministry of Justice of the Republic of the Congo. Article 317 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is declared to be an integral part of the constitution, says that "Abortion, other than therapeutic, is prohibited and punishable by law."<ref>[https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G14/429/84/PDF/G1442984.pdf Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, The Republic of the Congo], United Nations, 1 May 2014.</ref> It is unclear whether the therapeutic ground means only to save the woman's life or also to preserve her health. The UN source says that only the ground to save the woman's life is accepted as a general legal principle.<ref name=UN2019report/>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=cg}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Costa Rica|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|A judicial pardon may be granted to the woman for an abortion on this ground.<ref>[https://www.oas.org/dil/esp/codigo_penal_costa_rica.pdf Penal Code], Government of Costa Rica. Article 93 {{in lang|es}}.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Croatia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.zakon.hr/z/2475/Zakon-o-zdravstvenim-mjerama-za-ostvarivanje-prava-na-slobodno-odlu%C4%8Divanje-o-ra%C4%91anju-djece Law on Health Measures for Exercising the Right to Freely Decide on the Birth of Children], Zakon.hr {{in lang|hr}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Cuba|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://salud.msp.gob.cu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RM_24_2004.pdf Ministerial resolution no. 24], Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, 1 April 2004 {{in lang|es}}.</ref><ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/01-Cuba-Methodological-guidelines-for-the-implementation-of-voluntary-termination-of-pregnancy-Ministry-of-Health-2011.pdf Methodological guides for the instrumentation of all types of voluntary termination of pregnancy], Ministry of Public Health of Cuba {{in lang|es}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|35 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Cyprus|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|date=16 April 2018|title=ΝΟΜΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΤΡΟΠΟΠΟΙΕΙ ΤΟΝ ΠΟΙΝΙΚΟ ΚΩΔΙΚΑ|language=el|trans-title=AN ACT TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL CODE|website=CyLaw - All Cyprus Bar Association |url=http://www.cylaw.org/nomoi/arith/2018_1_023.pdf|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101003845/http://www.cylaw.org/nomoi/arith/2018_1_023.pdf|archive-date=1 November 2021}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|19 weeks}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Czech Republic|pref=Abortion in the}}<ref>"Zákon České národní rady o umělém přerušení těhotenství" [Act of the Czech National Council on Abortion]. [https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/1986-66 ''Act No. 66 of 20 October 1986''] {{in lang|cs}}. Czech National Council.</ref><ref name=cz>"Vyhláška ministerstva zdravotnictví České socialistické republiky, kterou se provádí zákon České národní rady č. 66/1986 Sb., o umělém přerušení těhotenství" [Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Socialist Republic, which implements the Act of the Czech National Council No. 66/1986 Coll., On Abortion]. [https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/1986-75 ''Decree No. 75 of 7 November 1986''] {{in lang|cs}}. Ministry of Health</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}}{{efn|In some cases, the gestational limit is 12 or 24 weeks.}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Democratic Republic of the Congo|pref=Abortion in the}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is accepted as a general legal principle, allowed by regulation and established by treaty.<ref name=cd>[https://leganews.cd/index.php/actualites/judiciaires/1695-l-avortement-d-une-victime-de-viol-est-il-permis-en-droit-congolais Is the abortion of a rape victim permitted in Congolese law?], Leganews.cd, 29 October 2019. {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>[http://www.leganet.cd/Legislation/Droit%20Public/SANTE/O.70.158.30.04.1970.htm Ordinance 70–158 of 30 April 1970 determining the rules of medical deontology], Leganet.cd. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=cd|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is established by treaty, whose application is requested by the Constitutional Court.<ref name=cd/><ref>[http://www.leganet.cd/Legislation/JO/2018/jos.05.06.2018.o.pdf Memorandum no. 04/SPCSM/CFLS/EER/2018 of 6 April 2018 regarding the execution of the provisions of article 14 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa], Official Journal of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 5 June 2008. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=cd}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=cd}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Denmark|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=dk>{{cite web |url=https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/404 |title=Lov om ændring af sundhedsloven |trans-title=Law amending the health law |publisher=Retsinformation |date=29 April 2025 |language=da}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|18 weeks}}{{efn|If the woman is of young age or immature and so unable to care for the child in a proper way, abortion may be allowed up to fetal viability.<ref name=dk/>}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Djibouti|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.vertic.org/media/National%20Legislation/Djibouti/DJ_Code_Penal.pdf Law 59/AN/94 of 5 January 1995 bearing the Penal Code], VERTIC {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://ordremedical-dj.webs.com/codededontologie.htm Decree no. 2008-0098/PR/MS regarding the Code of Medical Deontology], National Order of Medical Professions of Djibouti {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://human-village.org/spip.php?article174 Abortion in Djibouti], Human Village, April 2015 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=therapeutic|The penal code says that abortion is permitted for therapeutic purposes but is unclear whether it means only to save the woman's life or also to preserve her health. The UN source marks it as a permitted ground.}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Dominica|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.dominica.gov.dm/laws/chapters/chap10-31.pdf Offences Against the Person Act], Government of Dominica, version of 1995. Sections 8, 56, 57.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|Before independence, a judicial decision in the parent country allowed abortion for this ground, but the decision has not been explicitly recognized by Dominica.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051227114327fw_/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/domini1.doc Dominica], Population Policy Data Bank, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2001. Archived from [http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/domini1.doc the original] on 27 December 2005.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Dominican Republic|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{Cite news|date=16 December 2021|title=Los diputados dominicanos rechazan ley polémica por el aborto|language=es|trans-title=Dominican deputies reject controversial abortion law|publisher=Swissinfo|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/r-dominicana-aborto_los-diputados-dominicanos-rechazan-ley-pol%C3%A9mica-por-el-aborto/47199790|access-date=16 December 2021}}</ref> | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The UN source says that this ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is accepted as a general legal principle. However, other sources say that abortion is not legally allowed under any circumstance in the Dominican Republic.<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/11/19/its-your-decision-its-your-life/total-criminalization-abortion-dominican-republic The total criminalization of abortion in the Dominican Republic], Human Rights Watch, 19 November 2018.</ref><ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/06/republica-dominicana-camara-de-diputados-pone-en-riesgo-la-vida-y-salud-de-millones-de-mujeres-y-ninas/ Presa Release: Dominican Republic: Chamber of Deputies puts life and health of millions of women and girls at risk], Amnesty International, 20 June 2021.</ref> A new penal code, explicitly allowing abortion in case of risk to life, is set to enter into force in August 2026.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.consultoria.gov.do/Consulta/Home/FileManagement?documentId=3403591&managementType=1 |title=Ley núm. 74-25 Orgánica que instituye el Código Penal de la República Dominicana |trans-title=Organic Law no. 74-25 that institutes the Penal Code of the Dominican Republic |publisher=Presidency of the Dominican Republic |at=Articles 106 to 111 |language=es}}</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|East Timor|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|The UN source shows East Timor as allowing abortion also in case of risk to the woman's health or fetal impairment, citing the penal code enacted in March 2009 and entered into force in June 2009.<ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/01-Timor-Leste-Penal-Code-2009.pdf Penal code of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste], Global Abortion Policies Database, World Health Organization.</ref><ref name=tl>[http://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/files/Codigo_Penal.pdf Penal Code], Court of Appeals of East Timor, March 2010 {{in lang|pt}}.</ref> However, the penal code was amended in July 2009 to restrict abortion only to save the woman's life.<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40449618_Attitudes_towards_the_legal_context_of_unsafe_abortion_in_Timor-Leste Attitudes towards the legal context of unsafe abortion in Timor-Leste], Suzanne Belton, Andrea Whittaker, Zulmira Fonseca, Tanya Wells-Brown, and Patricia Pais, ''Reproductive Health Matters'' 17(34):55–64, November 2009.</ref><ref name=tl/><ref>[https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/338768/factsheet-timor%20leste-eng.pdf Abortion Policy Landscape: Timor Leste], World Health Organization.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Ecuador|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is explicitly mentioned in the law only in case of rape of a woman with a mental disability, but it is also established by judicial decision in case of rape of any woman.<ref name=ec/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Egypt|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"قانون العقوبات" [Penal Code]. [https://manshurat.org/node/14677 ''Article 61 and Chapter 3, Law 58 of 1937''] {{in lang|ar}}. Parliament of Egypt. With amendments as 15 August 2021.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211103044104/https://www.ems.org.eg/userfiles/file/kanon/leha_eng.doc Profession Ethics Regulations]. Archived from [http://www.ems.org.eg/userfiles/file/kanon/leha_eng.doc the original] on 3 November 2021.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|El Salvador|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/salvadoran-president-rules-out-allowing-abortion-same-sex-marriage-2021-09-17/ Salvadoran president rules out allowing abortion, same-sex marriage], Reuters, 17 September 2021.</ref> | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Equatorial Guinea|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.guineasalud.org/archivos/Ordenes/Ley%20Num_4-2020.pdf ''Chapter 3, Section 1, Law No. 4 of 5 November 2020''] {{in lang|es}}. Parliament of Equatorial Guinea.</ref> | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Eritrea|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Andemariam|first=Senai W.|date=2015|title=PENAL CODE OF THE STATE OF ERITREA|website=Ref World|url=https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/55a51ccc4.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=18 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918231843/https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/55a51ccc4.pdf}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=er|Abortion is permitted if the woman is under age 18.}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=er}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=er}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Estonia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=ee>[https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/925400 Abortion and Sterilization Act, amended up to 2005], Riigi Teataja, 25 November 1998.</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=ee|If the woman is under age 15 or over age 45, the gestational limit is 22 weeks.}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=ee}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=ee}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Eswatini|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216604707|format=PDF|title=Swaziland National Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights|website=Researchgate.net|access-date=2 March 2022}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Ethiopia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=et1>{{cite web |url=https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/et/et011en.pdf |title=The Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |publisher=World Intellectual Property Organization |at=Articles 545 to 552}}</ref><ref name=et2>{{cite web |date=2020 |author=Dr. Yirgu Gebrehiwoth |title=Federal Ministry of Health - National Norms & Guidelines for Safe Abortion Services in Ethiopia second edition - original 2013/2014 modified 2018 |website=St. Paul's Hospital, Addis Ababa |url=https://www.spirhr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/03-Ethiopia-Technical-and-procedural-guidelines-for-safe-abortion-services-2014.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=1 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101013602/https://www.spirhr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/03-Ethiopia-Technical-and-procedural-guidelines-for-safe-abortion-services-2014.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pascar.org/uploads/files/Ethiopia_-_General_Hospital_CPG.PDF |title=Standard Treatment Guidelines for General Hospitals |publisher=Food, Medicine and Healthcare Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia |date=2014}}</ref> | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|Permitted up to 28 weeks of gestation if the woman is unfit to raise the child due to a physical or mental disability or for being under age 18. The penalty for abortion may be mitigated in case of extreme poverty.<ref name=et1/><ref name=et2/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Fiji|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.steptoe.com/images/content/2/3/v1/2393/3984.pdf Crimes decree 2009], Republic of Fiji Islands Government Gazette, 5 November 2009. Section 234.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Finland|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=fi|Including Åland.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050213153638/http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1991/en19911144.pdf Act on the autonomy of Åland], Finlex, May 2014.</ref>}}<ref>[https://www.finlex.fi/sv/lagstiftning/1970/239 Law No. 239/1970 on Termination of Pregnancy], Finlex {{in lang|sv}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|France|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT000006072665/LEGISCTA000006140611 Voluntary interruption of pregnancy], Public Health Code articles L2211-1 to L2223-2, Légifrance {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>{{efn|Including Overseas France.<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT000006072665/LEGISCTA000006140613 Mayotte, Wallis and Futuna Islands and French Southern and Antarctic Lands, New Caledonia and French Polynesia], Public Health Code articles L2421-1 to L2446-3, Légifrance {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|16 weeks}}{{efn|name=fr|Defined as 14 weeks of pregnancy, considered as 16 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref>[https://ivg.gouv.fr/quels-sont-les-delais-a-respecter-pour-avorter.html What are the deadlines to abort?], Ministry of Health and of Prevention of France, 21 July 2022 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|16 weeks}}{{efn|name=fr}} | {{yes|16 weeks}}{{efn|name=fr}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Gabon|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://33bbf3d5-c3fe-409d-a723-d22ea129e9a0.usrfiles.com/ugd/33bbf3_a21b940230be4adbb8be48927b9dc92b.pdf Penal Code], Official Journal of the Gabonese Republic, 30 June 2020. Title X {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The penal code says that abortion may be permitted to an underage woman in a state of grave distress up to 10 weeks.}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Gambia|plink=Abortion in the Gambia}}<ref>[https://www.hhrjournal.org/2019/12/the-gambias-political-transition-to-democracy-is-abortion-reform-possible/ The Gambia's Political Transition to Democracy: Is Abortion Reform Possible?], Satang Nabaneh, Health and Human Rights, 9 December 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex4.detail?p_lang=en&p_isn=75289 Criminal Code (Act No. 25 of 1933)], Gambia, International Labour Organization. Chapter XV, sections 140–142, and chapter XX, sections 198–199.</ref><ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/MONOGRAPH/90619/115464/F-1335047347/GMB90619.pdf Women's Act, 2010], Office of the Vice President and Ministry for Women Affairs of Gambia, July 2010. Section 30.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Georgia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.matsne.gov.ge/ka/document/download/29980/33/en/pdf Law of Georgia on health care], Legislative Herald of Georgia, version of 8 August 2014.</ref><ref>[https://matsne.gov.ge/ka/document/view/2514236 On the approval of the rules for the implementation of abortion], Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, 7 October 2014 {{in lang|ka}}.</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Germany|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes2|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=de|The criminal code specifies that abortion is not deemed an offence if the woman requests it, she has obtained counselling, and it is done by a physician within 12 weeks from conception. (Also, the woman is not punished for an abortion within 22 weeks if the other conditions are fulfilled.) The woman's living conditions are also taken into account in the indication of a serious risk to her health.<ref name=de/><ref>[https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html German Criminal Code], Federal Office of Justice of Germany. Section 218a.</ref>}} | {{yes2|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=de}} | {{yes2|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=de}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Ghana|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Greece|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.ministryofjustice.gr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ποινικός-Κώδικας.pdf Penal code], Ministry of Justice of Greece, 27 August 2019 {{in lang|el}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|19 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=gr|If the woman is a minor or incapable of resisting, the gestational limit is 19 weeks.}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=gr}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Grenada|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.vertic.org/media/National%20Legislation/Grenada/GD_Criminal_Code.PDF Criminal Code]. Articles 234, 250(2).</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Guatemala|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mcd.gob.gt/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Actualizaci%C3%B3n_del_Codigo_Penal_Decreto_17-73.pdf|title=chapter 3|website=Mcd.gob.gt|access-date=2 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{in lang|es}} https://clacaidigital.info/bitstream/handle/123456789/390/GuiaHemorragia1y2trimestre.pdf</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Guinea|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Guinea-Bissau|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gw|The penal code prohibits abortion only if done without the woman's consent, outside health care facilities or without professional qualification.<ref name=gw>{{cite web |url=https://www.pjguinebissau.com/download/codigo-penal-da-guine-bissau/ |title=Código Penal da Guiné-Bissau |trans-title=Penal Code of Guinea-Bissau |publisher=Judiciary Police of Guinea-Bissau |date=20 May 2019 |at=Article 112 |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/GW/RightHealthGuineaBissau_EN.pdf |title=Report on the Right to Health in Guinea-Bissau |publisher=Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |date=April 2017 |pages=14–15}}</ref> The law on reproductive health and family planning says that voluntary interruption of pregnancy is authorized according to the law on abortion,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fecongd.org/pdf/crianca/LeiSaudeReprodutiva.pdf |title=Lei da saúde reprodutiva e planeamento familiar |trans-title=Law on reproductive health and family planning |publisher=Government of Guinea-Bissau |at=Article 16 |language=pt}}</ref> but no specific law on abortion exists as of 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dw.com/pt-002/guin%C3%A9-bissau-especialistas-defendem-legisla%C3%A7%C3%A3o-espec%C3%ADfica-sobre-aborto/a-61249598 |title=Guiné-Bissau: Especialistas querem lei sobre aborto |trans-title=Guinea-Bissau: Specialists want law on abortion |publisher=Deutsche Welle |date=24 March 2022 |language=pt}}</ref> A report by the Ministry of Public Health mentioned a gestational limit of 12 weeks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://platform.who.int/docs/default-source/mca-documents/policy-documents/plan-strategy/GNB-CC-10-01-PLAN-STRATEGY-2006-por-Roadmap-Reduction-Maternal-Neonatal-Mortality.pdf |title=Roteiro para a redução da mortalidade materna e neonatal na Guiné-Bissau |trans-title=Roadmap for the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality in Guinea-Bissau |publisher=Ministry of Public Health of Guinea-Bissau |date=December 2006 |at=Page 7 (PDF 13) |language=pt}}</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gw}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gw}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gw}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gw}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gw}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Guyana|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://parliament.gov.gy/new2/documents/acts/6013-7_of_1995_medical_termination_of_pregnancy_act_1995.pdf The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act], Parliament of Guyana.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|8 weeks}}{{efn|name=gy|If the woman is HIV-positive or contraception failure, the gestational limit is 16 weeks.}} | {{yes|8 weeks}}{{efn|name=gy}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Haiti|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|A new penal code, published by presidential decree on 24 June 2020 and amended by the Council of Ministers on 24 June 2025, would allow abortion on request in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and in case of risk to the woman's physical or mental health, rape or incest.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/code-penal-haiti-2022.pdf |title=Décret, Code pénal |trans-title=Decree, Penal code |at=Articles 328 and 329 |publisher=Le Moniteur |date=24 June 2020 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jamesonpierrelouis.com/2025/09/code-penal-haitien-adopte-le-mardi-24.html |title=Code penal haïtien adopté le mardi 24 juin 2025 en conseil des ministres |trans-title=Haitian penal code adopted Tuesday, 24 June 2025, in the Council of Ministers |at=Articles 328 and 329 |publisher=Jameson Pierre-Louis |language=fr}}</ref> On 24 December 2025, its entry into force was postponed indefinitely.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article32544 |title=Haïti-Nouveau Code pénal : Report sine die de l'entrée en vigueur, les autorités optent pour une mise en œuvre progressive |trans-title=Haiti-New Penal Code: Postponement without date of the entry into force, the authorities opt for a progressive implementation |publisher=AlterPresse |date=26 December 2025 |language=fr}}</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=principle|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is accepted as a general legal principle.}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Honduras|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/internacional/honduras-ratifica-reforma-prohibe-aborto-matrimonio-igualitario_1267114.html Honduras ratifies a reform that prohibits abortion and same-sex marriage], El Periódico Extremadura, 29 January 2021 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Hungary|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=hu|Up to 18 weeks if the woman is incapacitated or did not recognize the pregnancy due to illness or medical error, or in case of failure of a health institution.<ref name=hu>[https://net.jogtar.hu/jogszabaly?docid=99200079.tv Law on the protection of fetal life], Wolters Kluwer {{in lang|hu}}. Retrieved 27 September 2021.</ref>}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=hu}} | {{yes|20 weeks}}{{efn|Up to 24 weeks in case of prolongation of the diagnostic procedure, or no limit in case of fetal abnormality incompatible with life after birth.<ref name=hu/>}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=hu}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Iceland|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"Lög um þungunarrof" [Law on Abortion]. [https://www.althingi.is/lagas/nuna/2019043.html ''Law No. 43 of 22 May 2019''] {{in lang|is}}. Althing.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|India|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=in>[https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/1593/1/A1971-34.pdf Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971], of India Code, with Amendment Bill 2020. Version as of 16 December 2021.</ref><ref>[https://nhm.gov.in/New_Updates_2018/NHM_Components/RMNCHA/MH/Guidelines/CAC_Training_and_Service_Delivery_Guideline.pdf Comprehensive abortion care, training and service delivery guidelines], Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India, 14 June 2018. Page 6.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}}{{efn|No limit in case of "substantial foetal abnormalities".<ref name=in/>}} | {{yes|24 weeks}}{{efn|Including the failure of contraception.<ref name=in/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Indonesia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jdih.setkab.go.id/PUUdoc/177030/Salinan_UU_Nomor_17_Tahun_2023.pdf|title=Undang-Undang Nomor 17 Tahun 2023 tentang Kesehatan. Pasal 60|trans-title= Law No. 17 of 2023 on Health. Article 60|page=33|language=id|publisher=Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia|access-date=2023-10-27|archive-date=2023-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027082454/https://jdih.setkab.go.id/PUUdoc/177030/Salinan_UU_Nomor_17_Tahun_2023.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://jdih.setkab.go.id/PUUdoc/176887/UU_Nomor_1_Tahun_2023.pdf|title=Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 2023 tentang Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana. Pasal 463 dan Penjelasan atas Pasal 463|trans-title= Law No. 1 of 2023 on Criminal Code. Article 463 and Explanation of Article 463|pages=160, 321|language=id|publisher=Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia|access-date=2023-10-27|archive-date=2023-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027083355/https://jdih.setkab.go.id/PUUdoc/176887/UU_Nomor_1_Tahun_2023.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Iran|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201101035556/http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/97756 Medical abortion law], Islamic Parliament Research Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 25 Khordad 1384 (15 June 2005) {{in lang|fa}}. Archived from [http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/97756 the original] on 1 November 2020.</ref><ref>[https://behdasht.gov.ir/آشنايي-با-موارد-سقط-درماني Familiarity with medical abortion cases], Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran {{in lang|fa}}.</ref><ref>[https://behdasht.gov.ir/آموزش-شغلی–-درمانی/سقط-و-انواع-آن-(Abortion) Abortion and its types], Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran {{in lang|fa}}.</ref> | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|4 months}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|4 months}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law,<ref>[https://ijaai.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijaai/article/view/473/364 Abortion in Iranian Legal System], Mahmoud Abbasi, Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki, and Neda Allahbedashti, Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, vol. 13, no. 1, February 2014.</ref> but it may be included in other legal grounds if the pregnancy causes unbearable hardship, such as significant harm to mental health or risk of suicide.<ref>[https://www.islamquest.net/fa/archive/question/fa54320 Abortion, in case of disgrace and unbearable hardship], Islam Quest, 17 Farvardin 1394 (6 April 2015) {{in lang|fa}}.</ref>{{Better source needed|date=July 2021}}}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|4 months}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Iraq|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is accepted as a general legal principle.<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/57206/110681/F-1289690696/IRQ57206.pdf Penal Code], Ministry of Justice of Iraq.</ref><ref>[https://iasj.net/iasj/download/4f87943070c53025 Abortion Law: Conflict of Maternal-Fetal Rights], Dr. Khaled Hamad Fayadh, University of Fallujah College of Law.</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=iq|This ground is only cited in instructions to health committees, not by law.<ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/01-Iraq-The-First-Amendment-to-Instructions-to-Health-Committees-Higher-Judicial-Council-2001.pdf First Amendment to Instructions to Health Committees], Government of Iraq, 29 October 2001 {{in lang|ar}}.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=iq}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Ireland|pref=Abortion in the}}<ref>"Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018". [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/act/31/enacted/en/print.html ''Act No. 31 of 2018'']. Oireachtas.</ref> | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=ie|If the risk to life or health is immediate, no gestational limit is specified.}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=ie}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Israel|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=il|Abortion is permitted if the woman is under age 18 or over age 40, or if she is not married or the pregnancy is not from marriage.<ref>[https://www.gov.il/en/service/pregnancy-termination-permission Apply to terminate a pregnancy (Abortion)], Government of Israel.</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=il}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Italy|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.trovanorme.salute.gov.it/norme/dettaglioAtto?id=22302&completo=true Law No. 194 of 22 May 1978, Rules for the Social Protection of Maternity and on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy], Ministry of Health of Italy {{in lang|it}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | data-sort-value="12.8 weeks" {{yes|90 days}} | data-sort-value="12.8 weeks" {{yes|90 days}} | data-sort-value="12.8 weeks" {{yes|90 days}} | data-sort-value="12.8 weeks" {{yes|90 days}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Ivory Coast|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=ci>{{cite web |url=https://www.ivoire-juriste.com/2023/06/code-penal-pdf-cote-divoire.html |title=Code Pénal Ivoirien |trans-title=Ivorian Penal Code |publisher=Ivoire-Juriste |at=Articles 425 to 429 |language=fr}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The UN source marks it as a legal ground but it is only mentioned by treaty, not implemented in the law.<ref name=ci/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Jamaica|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is accepted as a general legal principle and established by judicial decision.<ref name=jm1>[https://laws.moj.gov.jm/library/statute/the-offences-against-the-person-act The Offences Against the Person Act], Laws of Jamaica, 7 April 2014. Articles 72 and 73.</ref><ref name=jm2>[http://www.japarliament.gov.jm/attachments/375_Abortion%20Policy%20Review%20Advisory%20Group%20Final%20Report.pdf Abortion Policy Review Advisory Group Final Report], Ministry of Health of Jamaica, 19 February 2007.</ref><ref name=jm3>[http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130825/focus/focus5.html Abortion 'right'?], The Gleaner, 25 August 2013.</ref><ref name=jm4>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7193391/ Abortion attitudes, training, and experience among medical students in Jamaica, West Indies], Glenmarie Matthews, Jessica Atrio, Horace Fletcher, Nathalie Medley, Leo Walker, and Nerys Benfield, ''Contraceptive and Reproductive Medicine'', 1 May 2020.</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is established by judicial decision.<ref name=jm1/><ref name=jm2/><ref name=jm3/><ref name=jm4/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Japan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"母体保護法の施行について" [On Enforcement of the Maternal Health Act]. [https://www.mhlw.go.jp/web/t_doc?dataId=00ta9675&dataType=1&pageNo=1 ''Act No. 122 of 25 September 1996''] {{in lang|ja}}. Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Jordan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/jor167170.pdf Public Health Law No. 47 of 2008], FAOLEX Database {{in lang|ar}}. Article 12.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Kazakhstan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://adilet.zan.kz/eng/docs/K2000000360 Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on public health and healthcare system], Legal Information System of Regulatory Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 7 July 2020. Article 150.</ref><ref>[https://adilet.zan.kz/eng/docs/V2000021412 Order of the Minister of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan On approval of the rules for artificial abortion and the list of medical and social indications, as well as contraindications for artificial abortion], Legal Information System of Regulatory Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 9 October 2020.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Kenya|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/28595/115477/F-857725769/KEN28595.pdf Penal Code], revised edition of 2012, National Council for Law Reporting. Articles 158–160 and 240.</ref><ref>[https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/ke/ke019en.pdf The Constitution of Kenya], National Council for Law Reporting, 2010. Article 26(4).</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is established by judicial decision.<ref name=ke/> It is also mentioned in the National Guidelines on Management of Sexual Violence.<ref>[https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kenya_Natl-Guidelines-on-Mgmt-of-Sexual-Violence_3rd-Edition_2014.pdf National Guidelines on Management of Sexual Violence in Kenya], 3rd edition, Ministry of Health of Kenya, 2014. Pages 15, 25, 78.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Kiribati|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.vertic.org/media/National%20Legislation/Kiribati/KI_Penal_Code.pdf Penal Code], VERTIC. Page 214.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Kosovo|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://gzk.rks-gov.net/ActDocumentDetail.aspx?ActID=2624 Law no. 03/L-110 for termination of pregnancy], Official Gazette of Kosovo. Articles 6–7, 14–16.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Kuwait|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/02-Kuwait-Ministerial-Decree-No-25-Practice-of-Medicine-1981.pdf Ministerial Decree No. 24 of 1981, Concerning the Practice of Human Medicine and Dentistry and the Professions Supporting Them], Global Abortion Policies Database, 22 February 1981 {{in lang|ar}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|4 months}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|4 months}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Kyrgyzstan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/111191 Law of the Kyrgyz Republic on the reproductive rights of citizens and guarantees of their implementation], Ministry of Justice of the Kyrgyz Republic. Article 16 {{in lang|ru}}.</ref><ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/07-Kyrgyzstan-Clinical-protocol-Medical%20abortion-in-the-first-and-second-trimester-Ministry-of-Health-2017.pdf Clinical protocol for medical abortion in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy], Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic {{in lang|ru}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Laos|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=la|The penal code prohibits "unlawful abortion", defined as "abortion not authorized by medical doctor commission". The penal code also lists the principles of legitimate defense and necessity to save one's life, which lead to exemption from penal liability.<ref>[https://bic.moe.go.th/images/stories/pdf/Law_of_Laos_1-11-2562.pdf Penal Code], Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, 26 June 2017.</ref> A decision by the Ministry of Health states that abortion is medically authorized, up to 28 weeks of gestation, due to certain medical conditions of the woman or fetus, rape, contraception failure, and certain socioeconomic conditions of the woman or her family.<ref>"ຂໍ້ຕົກລົງ ວ່າດ້ວຍ ການຄຸ້ມຄອງ ການໃຫ້ຖືພາແທນ ແລະ ການໃຫ້ຫຼຸລູກ" [Decision on the Management of Surrogacy and Abortion]. [https://moh.gov.la/index.php/download/decision/?wpdmdl=4377 ''Decision No. 2077 of 8 July 2021''] {{in lang|lo}}. Ministry of Health of Laos. [https://web.archive.org/web/20211117060139/https://moh.gov.la/index.php/download/decision/?wpdmdl=4377 Archived] from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.</ref> A WHO source also shows Laos as allowing abortion on request up to 12 weeks of gestation, citing guidelines for health workers from 2016,<ref>[https://iris.wpro.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665.1/13974/Abortion-lao-2017.pdf Situation of abortion in the Lao People's Democratic Republic], World Health Organization, 2017.</ref> but they were issued before the penal code of 2017 defined "unlawful abortion" and are not mentioned in the decision by the Ministry of Health of 2021.}} | {{yes2|28 weeks}}{{efn|name=la}} | {{yes2|28 weeks}}{{efn|name=la}} | {{yes2|28 weeks}}{{efn|name=la}} | {{yes2|28 weeks}}{{efn|name=la}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=la}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Latvia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://m.likumi.lv/ta/id/80585-grutniecibas-partrauksanas-organizatoriska-kartiba Organizational procedures for termination of pregnancy], Likumi.lv, 27 October 2007 {{in lang|lv}}.</ref><ref>[https://m.likumi.lv/ta/id/58982-seksualas-un-reproduktivas-veselibas-likums Sexual and Reproductive Health Law], Likumi.lv, 1 September 2017 {{in lang|lv}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Lebanon|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|date=25 July 2011|script-title=ar:قانون العقوبات 1943/3/1 مرسوم اشتراعي رقم 340 - صادر في|language=ar|trans-title=Lebanon Penal Code 1943 Arabic - Decree No. 340|website=Learning Partnership|url-status=live|archive-date=23 July 2021 |url=https://learningpartnership.org/sites/default/files/resources/pdfs/Lebanon%20Penal%20Code%201943%20Arabic.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723220200/https://learningpartnership.org/sites/default/files/resources/pdfs/Lebanon%20Penal%20Code%201943%20Arabic.pdf}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Lesotho|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lesotholii.org/ls/legislation/num-act/6|title=Penal Code Act, 2012 {{pipe}} Lesotho Legal Information Institute|website=lesotholii.org|access-date=23 October 2021|archive-date=26 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126000756/https://lesotholii.org/ls/legislation/num-act/6}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Liberia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.law.cornell.edu/women-and-justice/resource/offenses_against_the_family_chapter_16_penal_law_-_title_26_-_liberian_code_of_laws_revised Offenses Against the Family, Chapter 16: Penal Law – Title 26 – Liberian Code of Laws Revised], Legal Information Institute.</ref> | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Libya|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aladel.gov.ly/home/?p=1226 |title=Law No. 106 of 1973 Promulgating the Health Law |publisher=Ministry of Justice of Libya |date=13 December 1978 |language=ar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131044903/https://aladel.gov.ly/home/?p=1226 |archive-date=31 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://aladel.gov.ly/home/?p=1331 |title=Law No. 17 of 1986 on Medical Liability |publisher=Ministry of Justice of Libya |date=4 November 1986 |language=ar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206153538/https://aladel.gov.ly/home/?p=1331 |archive-date=6 February 2023}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Liechtenstein|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://legislationline.org/sites/default/files/documents/64/LICH_CC_eng.pdf Translation of Liechtenstein Law, Criminal Code of 24 June 1987], Legislationline.org, version of 1 January 2021, translated 21 January 2021. Article 96.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Lithuania|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=lt>[https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/TAIS.14276?jfwid=-je7i1sz4g The procedure for performing an abortion operation], Ministry of Health of Lithuania, 28 January 1994.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=lt|If the woman is under age 13 or over age 49, no limit is specified.}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=lt}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=lt}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Luxembourg|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=lu/> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Madagascar|pref=Abortion in}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law.<ref>[http://www.justice.mg/wp-content/uploads/textes/1TEXTES%20NATIONAUX/DROIT%20PRIVE/les%20codes/CODE%20PENAL.pdf Penal code], Ministry of Justice of Madagascar, updated 31 March 2005. Article 317 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> The UN source says that it is accepted as a general legal principle,<ref name=UN2019report/> but other sources say that abortion is not legally allowed under any circumstance in Madagascar.<ref>[https://laverite.mg/societe/item/12743-l%C3%A9galisation-de-l%E2%80%99avortement-%C3%A0-madagascar-la-r%C3%A9vision-de-la-loi-de-nouveau-sur-le-tapis-des-parlementaires.html Legalization of abortion in Madagascar – The revision of the law again on the parliamentarians' carpet], La Vérité, 9 February 2021 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20211001-madagascar-avortements-clandestins-deces-maternels-changer-loi-nifin-akanga In Madagascar, clandestine abortions are the second cause of maternal deaths], Radio France Internationale, 1 October 2021 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Malawi|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://malawilii.org/system/files/consolidatedlegislation/701/penal_code_pdf_14611.pdf |title=Penal Code. Article 243 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210708133338/https://malawilii.org/system/files/consolidatedlegislation/701/penal_code_pdf_14611.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2021 |publisher=Malawi Legal Information Institute}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Malaysia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.moh.gov.my/moh/images/gallery/Garispanduan/Guideline%20On%20TOP%20for%20Hospitals%20in%20MOH.pdf Guidelines on Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) for Hospitals in the Ministry of Health], Ministry of Health of Malaysia, 19 September 2012.</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Maldives|pref=Abortion in the}}{{efn|The law of Maldives is a combination of statutory and Islamic law.<ref>[http://agoffice.gov.mv/files/Constitution%20_English.pdf Constitution of the Republic of Maldives 2008], Attorney General's Office of Maldives.</ref> The Maldivian penal code criminalizes abortion after 120 days of gestation, except for risk to the woman's life.<ref>[https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/4203-maldives-penal-code-2014 Law no. 6/2014, Penal Code of the Maldives], University of Pennsylvania Law School.</ref> The Maldivian Islamic jurisprudence allows abortion only for risk to the woman's life, without gestational limit, or in cases of rape, incest, or certain medical conditions of a fetus conceived in marriage, up to 120 days of gestation.<ref name=mv1>[https://arrow.org.my/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Country-Profile-on-Sexual-and-Reproductive-Rights-Maldives.pdf Country Profile on Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Maldives], Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, 2017.</ref><ref name=mv2>{{cite web|url=http://islamicaffairs.gov.mv/dh/images/uploads/Fatwa%206%20-%20Nuthufa%20nahthailumai%20hayyarun%20nahtuvailumai%20dhari%20vahtailumai%20beheyR.pdf|title=Ruling 6/2013|date=11 December 2013|publisher=Islamic Fiqh Academy, Ministry of Islamic Affairs of Maldives|language=dv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602085600/http://islamicaffairs.gov.mv/dh/images/uploads/Fatwa%206%20-%20Nuthufa%20nahthailumai%20hayyarun%20nahtuvailumai%20dhari%20vahtailumai%20beheyR.pdf|archive-date=2 June 2014}}</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|120 days}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes2|120 days}}{{efn|Only for certain medical conditions of a fetus conceived in marriage.<ref name=mv1/><ref name=mv2/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Mali|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.droit-afrique.com/uploads/Mali-Code-2001-penal-MAJ-2016.pdf Law no. 2001-79 of 20 August 2001 bearing the Penal Code], Droit Afrique. Article 211 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://scorecard.prb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Loi-n%C2%B0-02-044-Relative-a%CC%80-la-Sante%CC%81-de-la-Reproduction-2002.-Mali.pdf Law no. 02-044 of 24 June 2002 relative to reproduction health], President of the Republic of Mali. Article 13 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=therapeutic}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Malta|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/9/eng |title=Criminal Code, articles 241 to 243B |publisher=Legislation Malta}}</ref> | {{yes|Viability}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Marshall Islands|pref=Abortion in the}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=principle}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Mauritania|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=mr|The penal code prohibits abortion without any explicit exception,<ref>[https://www.ecoi.net/en/file/local/1082544/1504_1226925638_ordonnance-83-162-du-09-juillet-1983-portant-institution-d-un-code-penal.pdf Penal Code], Official Journal of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, 9 July 1983. Article 293 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> but the UN source says that abortion to save the woman's life is permitted as a general legal principle.<ref name=UN2019report/> The law on child protection prohibits abortion except for a "proven medical need",<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/MONOGRAPH/73641/75348/F518879681/MRT-73641.pdf Ordinance no. 2005-015 bearing the penal protection of the child], Military Council for Justice and Democracy of Mauritania, 5 December 2005 {{in lang|fr}}. Article 33.</ref> and the law on reproductive health prohibits abortion except in case of risk to the woman's life.<ref>[https://www.msgg.gov.mr/sites/default/files/2020-11/JO%201402%20BIS%20FR%2027%2012%202017.pdf Law no. 2017-025 regarding reproductive health], Official Journal of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, 27 December 2017. Article 21 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> The government has stated that the law of the country permits abortion on therapeutic grounds.<ref>[https://undocs.org/CEDAW/C/MRT/Q/2-3/Add.1 List of issues and questions in relation to the combined second and third periodic reports of Mauritania, Addendum, Replies of Mauritania], Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 17 March 2014. Page 20.</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mr}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Mauritius|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/92110/107109/F707576334/MUS92110.pdf The Criminal Code (Amendment) Act 2012], Official Gazette of Mauritius, 23 June 2012.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Mexico|pref=Abortion in}} [subdivisions] | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|Abortion for this ground is permitted by law in all subdivisions except Guanajuato and Querétaro. In these two states, people who violate it may be prosecuted but not imprisoned, and they may request judicial relief by amparo.<ref name=mx1/><ref name=mx2/><ref name=mx3/>}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=mx|Abortion for this ground is permitted by law in some states and Mexico City. In other states, people who violate it may be prosecuted but not imprisoned, and they may request judicial relief by amparo.<ref name=mx1>[https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-58482259 Abortion in Mexico: the Supreme Court decriminalizes the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in a historic ruling for the country], BBC, 7 September 2021. "The ruling only obligates Coahuila to modify its penal code in this regard. Therefore, it does not imply that abortion is now legal in all of Mexico, nor that the decriminalization affects all states automatically or that they are obligated to change their local legislation." {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref name=mx2>[https://elpais.com/mexico/2021-09-08/despenalizado-pero-no-legislado-la-aprobacion-del-aborto-en-mexico-depende-de-cada-estado-del-pais.html Mexico decriminalizes abortion: what will happen now in the states of the country?], El País, 8 September 2021. "They will be able to, thus, continue sending to court the women who abort outside of the local norms, but the judicial process will not allow them to enter jail." "It is possible that there are still judges who dictate jail for some women, and this would force them to sue in local and federal processes first and then apply for an amparo before a district judge. This one would have to follow, finally, the judicial precedent." {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref name=mx3>{{cite web |url=https://www.laizquierdadiario.mx/Que-implica-el-nuevo-fallo-de-la-SCJN-sobre-la-penalizacion-del-aborto |title=¿Qué implica el nuevo fallo de la SCJN sobre la penalización del aborto? |trans-title=What are the implications of the Supreme Court's new ruling on the criminalization of abortion? |publisher=La Izquierda Diario |date=7 September 2023 |language=es}}</ref>}} | {{yes|Permitted}}{{efn|name=mx2|The penal codes of some states specify a gestational limit for abortion in case of rape. In July 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to set a limit for abortion on this ground, but the ruling only granted relief to the plaintiff and did not automatically invalidate the limit in the penal code.<ref name=mx4>[https://www.internet2.scjn.gob.mx/red2/comunicados/noticia.asp?id=6504 Press Release No. 196/2021: The time limit for the legal interruption of pregnancy as a result of rape constitutes an act of violence against the woman, which strikes against her rights to free development of personality and to mental health], Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, 7 July 2021 {{in lang|es}}.</ref>}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=mx}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=mx}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=mx}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Aguascalientes|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eservicios2.aguascalientes.gob.mx/NormatecaAdministrador/archivos/EDO-4-11.pdf |title=Código Penal para el Estado de Aguascalientes |trans-title=Penal Code for the State of Aguascalientes |publisher=Government of Aguascalientes |at=Articles 101 to 103 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|6 weeks}} | {{yes|6 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|6 weeks}} | {{yes|6 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Baja California|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://transparencia.pjbc.gob.mx/documentos/pdfs/Codigos/CodigoPenal.pdf |title=Código Penal para el Estado de Baja California |trans-title=Penal Code for the State of Baja California |publisher=Government of Baja California |at=Articles 132 to 136 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Baja California Sur|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbcs.gob.mx/index.php/trabajos-legislativos/leyes?id=1488 |title=Código Penal para el Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur |trans-title=Penal Code for the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur |publisher=Congress of Baja California Sur |at=Articles 151 to 156 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Campeche|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://legislacion.congresocam.gob.mx/index.php/leyes-focalizadas/anticorrupcion/6-codigo-penal-del-estado-de-campeche |title=Código Penal del Estado de Campeche |trans-title=Penal Code of the State of Campeche |publisher=Congress of Campeche |at=Articles 155 to 159 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- 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|language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Jalisco|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://congresoweb.congresojal.gob.mx/BibliotecaVirtual/legislacion/C%C3%B3digos/Documentos_PDF-C%C3%B3digos/C%C3%B3digo%20Penal%20para%20el%20Estado%20Libre%20y%20Soberano%20de%20Jalisco%20-281024.pdf |title=Código Penal para el Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco |trans-title=Penal Code for the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco |publisher=Congress of Jalisco |date=12 October 2024 |at=Articles 227 to 229 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Mexico City|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.congresocdmx.gob.mx/media/documentos/1756a3b9d0689d278e4578e9bcb6c7591cc9b983.pdf |title=Código Penal para el Distrito Federal |trans-title=Penal Code for the Federal District |publisher=Congress of Mexico City |date=4 October 2024 |at=Articles 144 to 148 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|State of Mexico|name=Mexico State|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://legislacion.edomex.gob.mx/sites/legislacion.edomex.gob.mx/files/files/pdf/cod/vig/codvig006.pdf |title=Código Penal del Estado de México |trans-title=Penal Code of the State of Mexico |publisher=Government of Mexico State |at=Articles 248 to 251 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible 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{{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mx}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mx}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mx}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Oaxaca|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.congresooaxaca.gob.mx/docs65.congresooaxaca.gob.mx/legislacion_estatal/Codigo_Penal_para_el_Edo_de_Oax_(_Ref_dto_2320_aprob_LXV_Legis_3_julio_2024_PO_29_9a_secc_20_julio_2024).pdf |title=Código Penal para el Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca |trans-title=Penal Code for the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca |publisher=Congress of Oaxaca |at=Articles 312 to 316 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Puebla|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.congresopuebla.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=5928 |title=Código Penal del Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla |trans-title=Penal Code of the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla |publisher=Congress of Puebla |at=Articles 339 to 343 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Querétaro|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://site.legislaturaqueretaro.gob.mx/CloudPLQ/InvEst/Codigos/COD-ID-07.pdf |title=Código Penal para el Estado de Querétaro |trans-title=Penal Code for the State of Querétaro |publisher=Congress of Querétaro |at=Articles 136 to 142 |language=es}}</ref> | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mx}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mx}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mx}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mx}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=mx}} 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|language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Sinaloa|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gaceta.congresosinaloa.gob.mx:3001/pdfs/leyes/Ley_7.pdf |title=Código Penal para el Estado de Sinaloa |trans-title=Penal Code for the State of Sinaloa |publisher=Congress of Sinaloa |at=Articles 154 to 158 |language=es}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|13 weeks}} | {{yes|13 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-mx" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Sonora|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gestion.api.congresoson.gob.mx/publico/media/consulta?id=33655 |title=Código Penal del Estado de Sonora |trans-title=Penal Code of the State of Sonora |publisher=Congress of Sonora |at=Articles 265 to 270 |language=es}}</ref> | 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[https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=37226&lang=ro ''Order No. 647 of 29 September 2010''] {{in lang|ro}}. Ministry of Health of Moldova.</ref> | {{yes|21 weeks}} | {{yes|21 weeks}} | {{yes|21 weeks}} | {{yes|21 weeks}} | {{yes|21 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|If the woman is under age 15 or over age 40, the gestational limit is 21 weeks.}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Monaco|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://legimonaco.mc/code/code-penal Penal Code of Monaco], Legimonaco {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Mongolia|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|23 weeks}} | {{yes|23 weeks}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Montenegro|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|date=6 October 2021|title=Zakon o uslovima i postupku za prekid trudnoće|language=hr|trans-title=Law on Conditions and Procedure for Termination of Pregnancy|website=Government of Montenegro|url=https://wapi.gov.me/download/840dacb7-de8d-45bb-841f-27b9cc32109d?version=1.0|url-status=live|archive-date=24 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024150208/https://wapi.gov.me/download/840dacb7-de8d-45bb-841f-27b9cc32109d?version=1.0}} pdf download</ref> | {{yes|32 weeks}} | {{yes|32 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Morocco|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|In 2016, the government of Morocco proposed allowing abortion in cases of rape, incest, mental disability and fetal impairment. However, the parliament did not approve the proposal,<ref>[https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2018/03/18/les-marocaines-attendent-toujours-la-reforme-de-l-avortement-voulue-par-mohammed-vi_5272836_3212.html Moroccan women are still waiting for the abortion reform wanted by Mohammed VI], Le Monde, 18 March 2018 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://www.france24.com/fr/20190924-maroc-affaire-hajar-raissouni-debat-avortement-libertes-droit-femmes In Morocco, the Hajar Raissouni case revives the debate on abortion], France 24, 24 September 2019 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> and as of 2021 the abortion articles in the penal code remain unchanged.<ref>[https://adala.justice.gov.ma/production/legislation/fr/Nouveautes/code%20penal.pdf Penal code], consolidated version of 5 July 2018, Ministry of Justice of Morocco {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref>[https://adala.justice.gov.ma/production/legislation/ar/Nouveautes/مجموعة%20القانون%20الجنائي.pdf Penal code], consolidated version of 14 June 2021, Ministry of Justice of Morocco {{in lang|ar}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Mozambique|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}}{{efn|May be permitted with no gestational limit in case the fetus is not viable.<ref>[https://reformar.co.mz/documentos-diversos/lei-24-2019-lei-de-revisao-do-codigo-penal.pdf Law of Revision of the Penal Code], Bulletin of the Republic of Mozambique, 24 December 2019 {{in lang|pt}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Myanmar|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|date=6 December 2008|title=MYANMAR THE PENAL CODE|website=The Warnath Group Consultants|url-status=live|url=https://www.warnathgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Burma-Penal-Code.pdf|archive-date=25 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925102835/https://www.warnathgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Burma-Penal-Code.pdf}}</ref><ref>[https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/338768/factsheet-myanmar-eng.pdf Abortion Policy Landscape: Myanmar], World Health Organization.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Namibia|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Nauru|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/acts/f68fdcd4363b5f0b4630ac4c9c9f1202.pdf Crimes Act 2016], Nauru's Online Legal Database. Articles 53, 63–69.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Nepal|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=np1>{{cite web |url=https://www.moljpa.gov.np/en/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Penal-Code-English-Revised-1.pdf |title=The National Penal (Code) Act, 2017 |at=Articles 188 and 189 |publisher=Government of Nepal |date=16 October 2017 |access-date=27 June 2024 |archive-date=12 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212224745/https://www.moljpa.gov.np/en/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Penal-Code-English-Revised-1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=np2>{{cite web |url=https://www.lawcommission.gov.np/en/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/The-Right-to-Safe-Motherhood-and-Reproductive-Health-Act-2075-2018.pdf |title=The Right to Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Act, 2075 (2018) |at=Articles 15 to 19 |publisher=Government of Nepal |date=18 September 2018}}</ref> | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|18 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=np|Up to 28 weeks if the woman has HIV or a similar incurable disease.<ref name=np1/><ref name=np2/>}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=np}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Netherlands|pref=Abortion in the}}{{efn|Including the Caribbean Netherlands.<ref name=bq1>[http://www.dutchcaribbeanlegalportal.com/news/latest-news/2094-abortion-permit-for-hospital-in-bonaire Abortion permit for hospital in Bonaire], Dutch Caribbean Legal Portal, 16 June 2012.</ref><ref name=bq2>[https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0003396 Termination of pregnancy law], Government of the Netherlands {{in lang|nl}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|New Zealand|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/regulation-health-and-disability-system/abortion-legislation-information-health-practitioners Abortion Legislation: Information for Health Practitioners], Ministry of Health of New Zealand, 26 June 2020.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Nicaragua|pref=Abortion in}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Niger|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Nigeria|pref=Abortion in}} [subdivisions] | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng|The Criminal Code of the predecessor of Nigeria prohibited abortion except to save the woman's life. A judicial decision on a similar law in the parent country allowed abortion also to preserve the woman's health, but the West African Court of Appeal, despite applying the reasoning of the parent country's decision, affirmed only the ground to save the woman's life in Nigerian law. The Criminal Code and its judicial precedent remain in force in the southern states of Nigeria. In the states corresponding to the former Northern Region, the Penal Code replaced the Criminal Code and its judicial precedent, and it also prohibits abortion except to save the woman's life.<ref>[https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1495&context=ilsajournal Re-characterizing abortion in Nigeria: an appraisal of the necessity test], Victor Nnamdi Opara, ''International Law Students' Association Journal of International & Comparative Law'', vol. 11, issue 1, article 8, March 2005.</ref><ref>[https://policehumanrightsresources.org/content/uploads/2016/07/Penal-Code-Northern-States_-Federal-Provisions-Act-1960.pdf Penal Code (Northern States) Federal Provisions Act], 30 September 1960. Police and Human Rights Resources, Amnesty International.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Abia | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Adamawa | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Akwa Ibom | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Anambra | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Bauchi | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Bayelsa | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Benue | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Borno | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Cross River | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Delta | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Ebonyi | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Edo | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Ekiti | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Enugu | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Federal Capital Territory | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Gombe | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Imo | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Jigawa | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Kaduna | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Kano | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Katsina | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Kebbi | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible 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{{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Ogun | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Ondo | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Osun | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Oyo | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Plateau | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Rivers | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ng}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Sokoto | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Taraba | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Yobe | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ng" | {{spaces|3}}Zamfara | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Northern Cyprus|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Cyprus Turkish Medical Association "Medical Professional Code of Ethics"|url=http://mevzuat.kamunet.net/mmd/tuzukler_htm/k/K%C4%B1br%C4%B1s_Turk_Tabipleri_Birligi_Tip_meslek_ahlak_tuzugu.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402125635/http://mevzuat.kamunet.net/mmd/tuzukler_htm/k/K%C4%B1br%C4%B1s_Turk_Tabipleri_Birligi_Tip_meslek_ahlak_tuzugu.pdf|archive-date=2 April 2015|access-date=27 September 2021|publisher=TRNC Prime Ministry Department of Regulations|language=tr}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|North Korea|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=kp|The criminal law of North Korea, as amended up to 2015, does not mention abortion.<ref>[https://www.unilaw.go.kr/cmm/fms/FileDown.do?atchFileId=FILE_000000000001219&fileSn=1&mblSe=W The Criminal Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2015)], Unification Legislation Database {{in lang|ko}}.</ref><ref>[https://www.unilaw.go.kr/cmm/fms/FileDown.do?atchFileId=FILE_000000000001195&fileSn=0&mblSe=W Medical Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2000)], Unification Legislation Database {{in lang|ko}}.</ref> In 2015 the North Korean government issued a directive prohibiting medical professionals from performing abortions but did not indicate a penalty for doing so.<ref>[https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/north-korea-forbids-doctors-to-perform-abortions-implant-birth-control-devices-10142015145920.html North Korea forbids doctors to perform abortions, implant birth control devices], Radio Free Asia, 14 October 2015.</ref> In 2016, the government stated that abortion was "legal" and "provided upon request by the woman concerned for reasons of risks to her life, physical and mental health and fetal malformation", but it is unclear whether these were the only permitted reasons.<ref>[https://undocs.org/CEDAW/C/PRK/2-4 Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention, Democratic People's Republic of Korea], Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1 June 2016.</ref> It has also been reported that repatriated pregnant women are forced to have abortions to prevent children of mixed ethnicity.<ref>[https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/KP/Call_for_contributions_accountability/JubileeCampaign.pdf Written Contribution for Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)], Tomás Ojea Quintana, for his upcoming report to the 46th Human Rights Council session in March 2021.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=In-hua|first1=Kim|date=13 November 2019|title=Ask a North Korean: do forced abortions really take place in the DPRK?|url=https://www.nknews.org/2019/11/ask-a-north-korean-do-forced-abortions-really-take-place-in-the-dprk|publisher=NK News}}</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=kp}} | {{n/a|Unclear}}{{efn|name=kp}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=kp}} | {{n/a|Unclear}}{{efn|name=kp}} | {{n/a|Unclear}}{{efn|name=kp}} |- | {{flagg|**p|North Macedonia|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=mk|May be permitted with no gestational limit in some cases.<ref name=mk>[https://www.pravdiko.mk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Zakon-za-prekinuvane-na-bremenosta-22-05-2019.pdf Law of Termination of Pregnancy], Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia, 22 May 2019 {{in lang|mk}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=mk}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=mk}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Norway|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=no>{{cite web |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2024-12-20-96 |title=Lov om abort (abortloven) |trans-title=Law on abortion (abortion law) |publisher=Lovdata |language=no}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|No limit if it is clear that the fetus will die during pregnancy or shortly after birth.<ref name=no/>}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|18 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Oman|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=om|The penal law prohibits abortion without any explicit exception, but it exempts from penal liability actions done by necessity to protect oneself or others from a severe and imminent danger, and in the practice of agreed medical activities or urgent medical intervention.<ref>[https://mjla.gov.om/Download.aspx?Lid=213&lng=eng The Penal Law Promulgated by Royal Decree 7/2018], Ministry of Legal Affairs of Oman, 11 January 2018. Articles 315–320, 44 and 51.</ref> The law regulating medical practice prohibits abortion except for risk to the woman's life or of unbearable illness, and in case of fetal impairment up to 120 days of gestation.<ref>[https://mjla.gov.om/Download.aspx?Lid=228 Royal decree no. 75/2019 promulgating a law regulating the practice of the medical profession and allied medical professions], Ministry of Legal Affairs of Oman, 11 January 2019. Article 36 {{in lang|ar}}.</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=om}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes2|120 days}}{{efn|name=om}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Pakistan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://maps.reproductiverights.org/world-abortion-laws/pakistans-abortion-provisions Pakistan's Abortion Provisions], Center for Reproductive Rights.</ref><ref>[https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/why-deadly-abortions-keep-killing-women-pakistan Why Deadly Abortions Keep Killing Women in Pakistan], Pulitzer Center, 15 July 2021. "Because laws on abortion are vague, the decision to provide an abortion or not often comes down to a provider's personal or religious beliefs, which for many, makes the prospect unthinkable."</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|organ formation}}{{efn|Different sources specify this limit as 120 days or four months of gestation.<ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/08-Pakistan-Punjab-Service-Delivery-Standards-and-Guidelines-Department-of-Health-Punjab-2015.pdf Service delivery standards and guidelines for high-quality safe uterine evacuation and postabortion care], Department of Health of Punjab, Pakistan, April 2015.</ref><ref>[https://www.guttmacher.org/report/abortion-pakistan Abortion in Pakistan], Guttmacher Institute, November 2009.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Palau|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law<ref>[https://www.policinglaw.info/assets/downloads/Palau_Penal_Code.pdf Penal Code], Policinglaw.info. Article 1309.</ref> but it is accepted as a general legal principle.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Palestine|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=ps|The law prohibits abortion except to save the woman's life.<ref>[http://www.hdip.org/public%20health%20law%20English.pdf Palestinian Legislative Council Public Health Law], Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP), 23 April 2004.</ref> However, some sources say that abortion may also be permitted for health reasons and in cases of rape and fetal impairment,<ref>[https://www.hhrjournal.org/2019/12/the-unique-landscape-of-abortion-law-and-access-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territories The Unique Landscape of Abortion Law and Access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories], Health and Human Rights, 9 December 2019. "As one lawyer from Gaza explained in an interview, "... [Abortion] is only allowed for health reasons for the mother or for fetal anomalies."</ref><ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-womens-day-palestinians-idUSKCN0WA1OV For Palestinian women, abortion can mean lies, jail or worse], Reuters, 8 March 2016. "When fetal impairment is detected, an abortion can be performed if both parents consent, ... the ministry said."</ref><ref>[https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/10/palestine-marry-your-rapist-law-repealed Palestine: 'Marry-Your-Rapist' Law Repealed], Human Rights Watch, 10 May 2018. "In practice, authorities may allow abortions in the first four months of pregnancy in situations of rape or incest, or if the mother has a disability or her life is at risk. However, Sufan, the shelter director in Nablus, said, 'it is difficult, the ''mufti'' [religious jurist], hospital, and court all have to agree to allow the abortion.' Salhieh, the chief prosecutor, said that prosecutors obtained permission for seven women to have abortions in 2017, all in cases in which the women alleged that the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest and they were in the early stages of pregnancy."</ref> while other sources say that it is not possible to obtain an abortion in any circumstance.<ref>[https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/04/palestines-abortion-problem Palestine's Abortion Problem], Foreign Policy, 4 December 2015. "Abortion, after all, is illegal under Palestinian law; while it is technically legal in order to protect the life of the mother, in practice, according to experts, it is impossible to get such a procedure. Especially for those ... who might want an abortion without the knowledge of their husbands."</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ps}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ps}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ps}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Panama|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>https://ministeriopublico.gob.pa/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CODIGO-PENAL-2019-FINAL-1.pdf chapter I, section 3</ref><ref>{{in lang|es}} https://clacaidigital.info/bitstream/handle/123456789/778/revision_de_normas_de_salud_integral_de_la_mujer.%20Panama.pdf</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | data-sort-value="8 weeks" {{yes|2 months}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Papua New Guinea|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=pg>[http://www.paclii.org/pg/legis/consol_act/cca1974115 Criminal Code Act 1974], Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. Articles 225, 226, 280, 312.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The law prohibits abortion done "unlawfully" without defining it, and it explicitly permits abortion to preserve the woman's life.<ref name=pg/> An opinion of the State Solicitor in 1982, based on court decisions on identical laws in the former parent country, considered that preservation of the woman's health was also a legal ground for abortion.<ref>Barnett, Katy (7 April 2016). [https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/2016/04/07/news-high-court-grants-injunction-staying-asylum-seekers-abortion News: High Court grants injunction staying asylum seeker's abortion]. University of Melbourne Law School, 7 April 2016.</ref><ref>[https://iris.wpro.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665.1/13974/Abortion-png-2017.pdf Situation of abortion in the Independent State of Papua New Guinea], World Health Organization, 2017.</ref> However, in 2018, in the case of a woman who had aborted at four months of pregnancy due to risk to health, the Supreme Court acquitted her because she had been wrongly charged for the crime of killing an unborn child, which only applies shortly before birth (section 312), but ruled that she should have still been charged for the crime of abortion (section 225).<ref>[https://www.thenational.com.pg/woman-cleared-in-abortion-case-2/ Woman cleared in abortion case], The National, 27 June 2018.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Paraguay|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.bacn.gov.py/descarga/3485/20150728121420.pdf Law No. 3440], BACCN, 20 August 2008. Article 109.4 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Peru|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|date=2014|title=Guía Técnica Nacional de Aborto Terapéutico|language=es|trans-title=National Technical Guide - Therapeutic Abortion (modified 2015)|website=Regional Directorate of Health of Cusco, Peru|url-status=live |url=http://www.diresacusco.gob.pe/salud_individual/dais/materno/NORMAS%20RTN/03/RM%20486-2014%20-%20GTN%20DE%20ABORTO%20TERAPEUTICO.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119042132/http://www.diresacusco.gob.pe/salud_individual/dais/materno/NORMAS%20RTN/03/RM%20486-2014%20-%20GTN%20DE%20ABORTO%20TERAPEUTICO.pdf|archive-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Philippines|pref=Abortion in the}}<ref name=ph>[https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1930/12/08/act-no-3815-s-1930 The Revised Penal Code], Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines, 8 December 1930. Articles 256–259.</ref> | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The law prohibits abortion without explicitly mentioning any exception,<ref name=ph/> but in 2014 the Supreme Court ruled that indirect abortion done to save the woman's life was permitted under the principle of double effect.<ref>[https://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/apr2014/gr_204819_2014.html Imbong v. Ochoa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119212003/https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/apr2014/gr_204819_2014.html |date=19 January 2022 }}, Supreme Court of the Philippines, 8 April 2014.</ref><ref>[https://pcw.gov.ph/assets/files/2021/11/CEDAW_C_PHL_9_8498_E.pdf Ninth periodic report submitted by the Philippines under article 18 of the Convention], Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 6 July 2021. Paragraph 123.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Poland|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU19930170078 Law of 7 January 1993 on family planning, protection of the human fetus and conditions of admissibility of interruption of pregnancy], Internet System of Legal Acts, Sejm of the Republic of Poland {{in lang|pl}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|13 weeks}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|This ground was mentioned in the law but it was invalidated by a judicial decision in 2020.<ref name=pl2>[https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20210000175/O/D20210175.pdf Judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 22 October 2020, act K 1/20], Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, 27 January 2021, item 175 {{in lang|pl}}.</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|This ground was mentioned in the law but it was invalidated by a judicial decision in 1997.<ref name=pl1>[https://sip.lex.pl/orzeczenia-i-pisma-urzedowe/orzeczenia-sadow/k-26-96-orzeczenie-trybunalu-konstytucyjnego-520122839 Judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 28 May 1997, K 26/96], Wolters Kluwer {{in lang|pl}}.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Portugal|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://dre.pt/web/guest/legislacao-consolidada/-/lc/169645978/202109140100/diplomaExpandido Penal Code], Electronic Journal of the Republic {{in lang|pt}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Qatar|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.almeezan.qa/LawArticles.aspx?LawTreeSectionID=267&lawId=26&language=en Law No. 11 of 2004 Issuing the Penal Code] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529133159/https://www.almeezan.qa/LawArticles.aspx?LawTreeSectionID=267&lawId=26&language=en |date=29 May 2022 }}, Qatar Legal Portal. Abortion. Articles 315–317.</ref><ref>[https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=253&language=ar Law No. (2) of 1983 in the matter of practicing the professions of human medicine and dental medicine and surgery], Qatar Legal Portal, 1 January 1983. Article 17 {{in lang|ar}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|4 months}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|4 months}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Romania|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://legislationline.org/sites/default/files/documents/e5/Romania_Penal%20Code_am2017_en.pdf Criminal Code of the Republic of Romania (2009, amended 2017)], Legislationline.org.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Russia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://minzdrav.gov.ru/documents/7025-federalnyy-zakon-323-fz-ot-21-noyabrya-2011-gart.56 |language=Russian |trans-title=Federal Law of November 21, 2011 No. 323-FZ "On the fundamentals of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation" |publisher=Minzdrav.gov.ru |date=2019-04-05 |access-date=2022-03-04|title = Федеральный закон от 21 ноября 2011 г. No. 323-ФЗ "Об основах охраны здоровья граждан в Российской Федерации"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://minzdrav.gov.ru/documents/7780-prikaz-minzdravsotsrazvitiya-rossii-736-ot-3-dekabrya-2007-g|title=Приказ Минздравсоцразвития России No. 736 от 3 декабря 2007 г.|website=minzdrav.gov.ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://minzdrav.gov.ru/documents/9154-prikaz-ministerstva-zdravoohraneniya-rossiyskoy-federatsii-ot-1-noyabrya-2012-g-572n-ob-utverzhdenii-poryadka-okazaniya-meditsinskoy-pomoschi-po-profilyu-akusherstvo-i-ginekologiya-za-isklyucheniem-ispolzovaniya-vspomogatelnyh-reproduktivnyh-tehnologiy|title=Приказ Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации от 1 ноября 2012 г.No. 572н "Об утверждении Порядка оказания медицинской помощи по профилю "акушерство и гинекология (за исключением использования вспомогательных репродуктивных технологий)""|website=minzdrav.gov.ru}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Rwanda|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://rwandalii.africanlii.org/sites/default/files/gazette/Official%2BGazette%2Bno%2B14%2Bof%2B08.04.2019.pdf Ministerial Order no. 002/MoH/2019 of 08/04/2019 determining conditions to be satisfied for a medical doctor to perform an abortion]{{Dead link|date=April 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Official Gazette of Rwanda, no. 14, 8 April 2019 {{in lang|rw|en|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Saint Kitts and Nevis|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is established by judicial decision.<ref>[https://aglcskn.info/wp-content/documents/Act17TOC/Ch-04_21-Offences-Against-the-Person-Act.pdf Offences Against the Person Act] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017160505/https://aglcskn.info/wp-content/documents/Act17TOC/Ch-04_21-Offences-Against-the-Person-Act.pdf |date=17 October 2021 }}, Law Commission of the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis, revised edition as of 31 December 2017. Sections 53–54.</ref><ref>[https://aglcskn.info/wp-content/documents/Act02and09TOC/Ch-09_11-Infant-Life-Preservation-Act.pdf Infant Life (Preservation) Act] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017160507/https://aglcskn.info/wp-content/documents/Act02and09TOC/Ch-09_11-Infant-Life-Preservation-Act.pdf |date=17 October 2021 }}, Law Commission of the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis, revised edition as of 31 December 2002.</ref><ref name=caribbean/>{{rp|14}}}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Saint Lucia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.govt.lc/media.govt.lc/www/resources/legislation/Criminal%20Code.pdf Criminal Code, revised edition as 31 December 2005], Government of Saint Lucia, Chapter 1, Part 1, Sub-part D.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.oas.org/en/sla/dlc/mesicic/docs/mesicic5_svg_annex8.pdf Criminal Code], Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Section 149.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Samoa|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/93579/124323/F-1523655815/WSM93579%202015.pdf Crimes Act 2013], Ministry of Police of Samoa, 1 May 2013.</ref> | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|San Marino|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/lavori-consiliari/verbali-sedute/scheda17177841.html Law no. 127 – Regulation of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy], Grand and General Council, 7 September 2022. Articles 4–7 {{in lang|it}}.</ref> | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|In case of risk to the woman's life after fetal viability, the pregnancy may also be interrupted by attempting a live birth.}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|Permitted until fetal viability in case of a fetal anomaly that poses a risk to the woman's health.}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|São Tomé and Príncipe|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=st>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/01-Sao-Tome-and-Principe-Penal-Code-2012.pdf Penal Code], Government of São Tomé and Príncipe, 2012. Book II, title I, chapter II {{in lang|pt}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit|}} | {{yes|16 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Saudi Arabia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=sa>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/01-Saudi-Arabia-Laws-pertaining-to-health-professions-practice.pdf Ministerial resolution no. 39644/1/12, dated 14/5/1427 AH], Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia, c. 10 June 2006 {{in lang|ar}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|4 months}} | data-sort-value="5.7 weeks" {{yes2|40 days}}{{efn|name=sa|Abortion may also permitted up to 40 days of gestation for other reasons that are not economic or social concerns.<ref name=sa/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/1628427/saudi-arabias-abortion-laws-are-more-forgiving-than-alabamas/|title=Saudi Arabia's abortion laws are more forgiving than Alabama's|first=Ephrat|last=Livni|website=Quartz|date=25 May 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | pmc=6927385 | year=2019 | last1=Maffi | first1=I. | last2=Tønnessen | first2=L. | title=The Limits of the Law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa | journal=Health and Human Rights | volume=21 | issue=2 | pages=1–6 | pmid=31885431 }}</ref>}} | data-sort-value="5.7 weeks" {{yes2|40 days}}{{efn|name=sa}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Senegal|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=sn|The penal code prohibits abortion without any explicit exception,<ref>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/70562/85594/F-2143944421/SEN-70562.pdf Penal Code of Senegal], 21 July 1965, with amendments up to 29 January 1999. Article 305 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> but the code of medical ethics permits abortion to save the woman's life.<ref>[https://www.ordremedecins.sn/textes-legaux/code-de-deontologie/ Code of Medical Ethics], National Order of Physicians of Senegal, 10 February 1967. Article 35 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref name=UN2019report/><ref>[https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/senegal-marieme-n-diaye-sur-la-depenalisation-de-l-avortement-le-debat-est-ouvert-11-04-2019-2307210_23.php Sénégal – Marième N'Diaye on the decriminalization of abortion: "the debate is open"], Le Point, 11 April 2019 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> The government has stated that abortion is authorized in case of risk to the woman's health.<ref>[https://undocs.org/CEDAW/C/SEN/3-7 Combined third to seventh periodic reports due in 2010, Senegal], Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 13 December 2013. Page 55.</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=sn}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Serbia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/zakon_o_postupku_prekida_trudnoce_u_zdravstvenim_ustanovama.html|title=Zakon o postupku prekida trudnoće u zdravstvenim ustanovama|website=www.paragraf.rs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Dr. Katarina Sedlecki|date=30 September 2013|title=НАЦИОНАЛНИ ВОДИЧ ДОБРЕ КЛИНИЧКЕ ПРАКСЕ ЗА БЕЗБЕДНИ ПРЕКИД ТРУДНОЋЕ|language=sr|trans-title=NATIONAL GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDE FOR SAFE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY|publisher=Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia|website=Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia |url=http://www.vma.mod.gov.rs/radna-verzija-vodica-za-bezbedni-prekid-trudnoce.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=23 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423202417/http://www.vma.mod.gov.rs/radna-verzija-vodica-za-bezbedni-prekid-trudnoce.pdf}} pdf download</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Seychelles|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=sc|In some cases, abortion may be allowed up to fetal viability or 26 weeks of gestation.<ref>[https://seylii.org/sc/legislation/consolidated-act/236 Termination of Pregnancy Act] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027182744/https://seylii.org/sc/legislation/consolidated-act/236 |date=27 October 2021 }}, consolidated to 30 June 2012, Seychelles Legal Information Institute.</ref><ref>[http://www.health.gov.sc/wp-content/uploads/REPRODUCTIVE-HEALTH-POLICY-2012-last-version.pdf Reproductive health policy for Seychelles], Ministry of Health of Seychelles, January 2012.</ref>}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=sc}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=sc}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=sc}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Sierra Leone|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=sl|Sierra Leone established that the laws in force in England in 1880 would be in force in Sierra Leone from 1965.<ref>[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150925105140/http://www.loc.gov/law/ Courts Act, 1965], Government of Sierra Leone. Article 74.</ref> One of these laws prohibited abortion done "unlawfully" without defining it.<ref>[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/crossheading/attempts-to-procure-abortion/enacted Offences Against the Person Act 1861], Legislation.gov.uk. Articles 58–59.</ref> A judicial decision in England in 1938 clarified that this law always implicitly allowed abortion at least to save the woman's life, and the decision allowed it also to preserve her health.<ref name=bourne/> It is unclear whether Sierra Leone applies only the original legal principle or also the judicial decision.<ref>[https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CEDAW-Shadow-Letter-on-Sierra-Leone-57th-Session-2014.pdf Supplementary Information on Sierra Leone, scheduled for review by the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women during its 57th Session (February 2014)], Center for Reproductive Rights, 24 January 2014. "This interpretation of the Offences Against the Person Act has not been tested in case law in Sierra Leone and therefore it remains unclear whether women terminating a pregnancy on such grounds would be criminally liable."</ref><ref>[https://www.catholicsforchoice.org/resource-library/understanding-abortion-access-in-africa/ Understanding Abortion Access in Africa], Catholics for Choice, 19 February 2014. "Sierra Leone is one of several Commonwealth countries to model its abortion policy after England's 1938 ''Rex v. Bourne'' decision, which established necessity{{snd}}that is, threats to a woman's mental and physical health{{snd}}as grounds for legal abortion."</ref> In 2015 the parliament of Sierra Leone passed a law allowing abortion on request but it was not signed by the president so it did not come into force.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35793186 Sierra Leone abortion bill blocked by President Bai Koroma again], BBC News, 12 March 2016.</ref><ref>[https://www.girlsglobe.org/2021/04/20/fighting-unsafe-abortion-and-abortion-stigma-in-sierra-leone/ Fighting Unsafe Abortion and Abortion Stigma in Sierra Leone], Women's Health and Reproductive Rights Organization, 20 April 2021.</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=sl}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Singapore|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/TPA1974|title=Termination of Pregnancy Act – Singapore Statutes Online|website=sso.agc.gov.sg}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Slovakia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"Zákon Slovenskej národnej rady o umelom prerušení tehotenstva" [Act of the Slovak National Council on Abortion]. [https://www.slov-lex.sk/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/1986/73/20111201 ''Law No. 73 of 23 October 1986''] {{in lang|sk}}. Slovak National Council.</ref><ref name=sk>"Vyhláška Ministerstva zdravotníctva Slovenskej socialistickej republiky, ktorou sa vykonáva zákon Slovenskej národnej rady č.73/1986 Zb. o umelom prerušení tehotenstva" [Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic, which implements the Act of the Slovak National Council No. 73/1986 Coll. on abortion]. [https://www.slov-lex.sk/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/1986/74 ''Decree No. 74 of 5 November 1986''] {{in lang|sk}}. Ministry of Health.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}}{{efn|In some cases, the gestational limit is 12 weeks.}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Slovenia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://pisrs.si/Pis.web/npbDocPdf?idPredpisa=ZAKO2518&idPredpisaChng=ZAKO408&type=pdf Law on health measures in the exercise of the right to freely decide on the birth of children], Government of Slovenia {{in lang|sl}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Solomon Islands|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.icrc.org/ihl-nat/a24d1cf3344e99934125673e00508142/3144948207a863a0c1257704004c46aa/$FILE/Solomon%20Islands%20-%20Penal%20Code%201963.pdf Penal Code], Laws of Solomon Islands. Articles 157–159, 221.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Somalia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/Somalia-Constitution2012.pdf Provisional Constitution], University of Minnesota: Human Rights Library, 7 September 2012. Article 15.5.</ref><ref>[https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/03-Somalia-Penal-Code-1962.pdf Penal Code], Global Abortion Policies Database, 6 December 1962. Article 36 and part X.</ref>{{efn|Including Somaliland.<ref>[http://www.somalilandlaw.com/Penal_Code_English.pdf Penal Code], Somalilandlaw.com.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Jama|first=Ibrahim Hashi |date=30 January 2012|title=THE 2000 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND - english translation|website=Somaliland law |url=http://www.somalilandlaw.com/Somaliland_Constitution_Text_only_Eng_IJSLL.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=18 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518225724/http://www.somalilandlaw.com/Somaliland_Constitution_Text_only_Eng_IJSLL.pdf}}</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is accepted as a general legal principle.{{Clarify|date=October 2021|reason=It is explicitly mentioned in the Constitution of Somalia, but not in Somaliland's}}}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|South Africa|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|South Korea|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|The laws of South Korea prohibited abortion except for risk to the woman's health, rape, incest, or certain medical conditions, up to 24 weeks of gestation.<ref>[https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/viewer.do?hseq=53018&type=sogan&key=10 Enforcement Decree of the Mother and Child Health Act], Government of South Korea.</ref> On 11 April 2019, the Constitutional Court ruled that the abortion restrictions were unconstitutional, giving the legislature until the end of 2020 to amend the laws to allow abortion on request with some gestational limit. In October 2020 the government proposed a limit of 14 weeks for abortion on request and 24 weeks for certain other cases, but the legislature did not approve this or any other proposal on the subject before the end of the year, so the abortion laws became automatically invalid on 1 January 2021.<ref name=kr>[https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-03-18/south-korea-abortion-decriminalized-since-january-1-2021 South Korea: Abortion decriminalized since January 1, 2021], Library of Congress, 18 March 2021.</ref> As of 2025, the legislature had still not approved any of the proposals, leaving abortion decriminalized without a clear gestational limit.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/law-crime/20250629/doctor-arrested-over-termination-of-pregnancy-at-9-months-in-korea |title=Doctor arrested over termination of pregnancy at 9 months |publisher=The Korea Times |date=29 June 2025}}</ref>}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=kr|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is established by judicial decision.<ref name=kr/>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=kr}} |- | {{flagg|**p|South Ossetia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"[https://ugo-osetia.ru/politika/ofitsialno/zakon-respubliki-yuzhnaya-osetiya-ob-osnovah-ohranyi-zdorovya-grazhdan-v-respublike-yuzhnaya-osetiya On the basics of protecting the health of citizens in the Republic of South Ossetia]", chapter 6, article 51. Ugo-osetia.ru.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|South Sudan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sudantribune.com/IMG/pdf/penal_code_act_2008-2.pdf|title=Penal Code Act. Article 216|website=Sudantribune.com|access-date=2 March 2022|archive-date=16 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016234057/http://www.sudantribune.com/IMG/pdf/penal_code_act_2008-2.pdf}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Spain|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2010/03/04/pdfs/BOE-A-2010-3514.pdf Organic Law 2/2010, of 3 March, of sexual and reproductive health and of voluntary interruption of pregnancy], Boletín Oficial del Estado, 4 March 2010 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|In case of a fatal anomaly, no limit is specified.}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} | {{yes|14 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Sri Lanka|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://citizenslanka.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Penal-Code-No-02-of-1883-E.pdf Penal code], Citizens Lanka, version as of 2002. Sections 303–307.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Sudan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.ecoi.net/file_upload/1329_1202725629_sb106-sud-criminalact1991.pdf Penal Code] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709132415/http://www.ecoi.net/file_upload/1329_1202725629_sb106-sud-criminalact1991.pdf |date=9 July 2016 }}, European Country of Origin Information Network, 1991.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | data-sort-value="12.8 weeks" {{yes|90 days}}{{efn|From conception.}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Suriname|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law<ref>https://www.dna.sr/media/138146/S.B._2015_no._44_wet_van_30_mrt_15_wijz._wetboek_van_strafrecht.pdf {{in lang|nl}} title xix</ref> but it is accepted as a general legal principle.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Sweden|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/abortlag-1974595_sfs-1974-595 Abortion law], Riksdag of Sweden, version as of 1 June 2013 {{in lang|sv}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|18 weeks}} | {{yes|18 weeks}} | {{yes|18 weeks}} | {{yes|18 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Switzerland|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/oc/2002/429/fr/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-oc-2002-429-fr-pdf-a.pdf Swiss penal code (Interruption of pregnancy)], Federal Assembly of Switzerland {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Syria|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"قانون مزاولة المهن الطبية في الجمهورية العربية السورية" [Law on the Practice of Medical Professions in the Syrian Arab Republic]. [http://www.parliament.gov.sy/arabic/index.php?node=55115&cat=8127 ''Article 47b, Legislative Decree No. 12 of 5 January 1970''] {{in lang|ar}}. People's Assembly of Syria.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Taiwan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=L0070001 Genetic Health Act], Laws and Regulations Database of the Republic of China, 8 July 2009.</ref><ref>[https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=L0070002 Enforcement Rules of Genetic Health Act], Laws and Regulations Database of the Republic of China, 5 April 2012.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Tajikistan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ippfen.org/sites/ippfen/files/2020-06/The%20IPPF%20EN%20partner%20survey%20Abortion%20legislation%20and%20its%20implementation%20in%20Europe%20and%20Central%20Asia.pdf |title=Abortion legislation and its implementation in Europe and Central Asia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121035955/https://www.ippfen.org/sites/ippfen/files/2020-06/The%20IPPF%20EN%20partner%20survey%20Abortion%20legislation%20and%20its%20implementation%20in%20Europe%20and%20Central%20Asia.pdf |archive-date=21 November 2021 |publisher=International Planned Parenthood Federation |date=December 2019}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Tanzania|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|In mainland Tanzania, articles 150 to 152 of the penal code prohibit abortion done "unlawfully", and article 230 of the same law permits abortion to preserve the woman's life. Article 219 additionally prohibits "child destruction", meaning abortion after fetal viability, presumed at 28 weeks of pregnancy, but still permits it to preserve the woman's life.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tanzlii.org/tz/legislation/act/2019-11 |title=The Penal Code, revised edition of 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204142351/https://tanzlii.org/tz/legislation/act/2019-11 |archive-date=4 December 2021 |publisher=Tanzania Legal Information Institute}}</ref> In Zanzibar, the penal act has equivalent articles 129 to 131, 213 and 200.<ref>[http://www.zanzibarassembly.go.tz/act_2018/act_6.pdf Penal Act, 2018], Zanzibar House of Representatives, 16 March 2018.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law. A judicial decision by the East African Court of Appeal, with jurisdiction over the predecessors of Tanzania, allowed abortion also to preserve the woman's health, and sources state that this decision remains binding after independence.<ref>[https://www.reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/crr_TZ_Briefing_Paper.PDF A technical guide to understanding the legal and policy framework on termination of pregnancy in mainland Tanzania], Center for Reproductive Rights, 2012.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Thailand|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210206093234/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2564/A/010/T_0001.PDF Act, Amendment of the Criminal Code (No. 28)], Royal Government Gazette of Thailand, 6 February 2021 {{in lang|th}}.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221002222423/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2565/E/228/T_0001.PDF Announcement of the Ministry of Public Health regarding the examination and counseling on options for termination of pregnancy under section 305 (5) of the Penal Code], Royal Government Gazette of Thailand, 26 September 2022 {{in lang|th}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Togo|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---ilo_aids/documents/legaldocument/wcms_127592.pdf Law No. 2007-005, On Reproductive Health], Official Journal of the Togolese Republic, 10 January 2007 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Tonga|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paclii.org/cgi-bin/sinodisp/to/legis/consol_act/co136/co136.html?stem=&synonyms=&query=criminal+offence|title=Criminal Offences|website=www.paclii.org}}</ref> but it is accepted as a general legal principle.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20051227114327fw_/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/tonga.doc (2001)</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Transnistria|state|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://zakon-pmr.com/DetailDoc.aspx?document=59061 |title=Приказ Министерства здравоохранения и социальной защиты Приднестровской Молдавской Республики о порядке проведения и показаниях к операции искусственного прерывания беременности |trans-title=Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic on the procedure and indications for artificial interruption of pregnancy |publisher=Zakon PMR |date=13 August 2004 |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404090307/http://zakon-pmr.com/DetailDoc.aspx?document=59061 |archive-date=4 April 2023 |access-date=11 October 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://minjust.org/oo/Publication.nsf/9306298df912e905c2258221004d4624/abbfe045b13c278dc22587350047aa2b |title=Приказ Министерство здравоохранения Приднестровской Молдавской Республики о внесении изменений в приказ Министерства здравоохранения Приднестровской Молдавской Республики о порядке проведения и показаниях к операции искусственного прерывания беременности |trans-title=Order of the Ministry of Health of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic on making changes to the order of the Ministry of Health of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic on the procedure and indications for artificial interruption of pregnancy |publisher=Ministry of Justice of Transnistria |date=18 August 2021 |language=ru}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Trinidad and Tobago|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=tt|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law<ref>{{cite web|title=CRIMINAL LAW ACT CHAPTER 10:04 - original 2006 updated 2016 modified 2018|website=Legal Affairs.Gov.TT |url=https://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/laws2/Alphabetical_List/lawspdfs/10.04.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=28 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628001831/https://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/laws2/Alphabetical_List/lawspdfs/10.04.pdf}}</ref> but it is accepted as a general legal principle and established by judicial decision.{{Clarify|date=October 2021}}<ref>[http://www.mbtt.org/CodeOfEthics_Responsibilities_to_profession.htm Code of Ethics in the Practice of Medicine: Responsibilities to Profession], Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago.</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20051227114327fw_/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/trinidad.doc (2001)</ref>}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=tt}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Tunisia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=tn>[https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/61250/60936/F1198127290/TUN-61250.pdf Penal Code], 2012. Article 214 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | data-sort-value="13.1 weeks" {{yes|3 months}} | {{yes|No limit}} | data-sort-value="13.1 weeks" {{yes|3 months}} | data-sort-value="13.1 weeks" {{yes|3 months}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Turkey|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat?MevzuatNo=2827&MevzuatTur=1&MevzuatTertip=5|title=Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi|website=www.mevzuat.gov.tr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat?MevzuatNo=837395&MevzuatTur=2&MevzuatTertip=5|title=Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi|website=www.mevzuat.gov.tr}}</ref><ref>[https://legislationline.org/sites/default/files/documents/58/Turkey_CC_2004_am2016_en.pdf Penal Code of Turkey (2004, amended 2016)], Legislationline.org. Article 99.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} | {{yes|10 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Turkmenistan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.parahat.info/law/2015-06-02-zakon-turkmenistana-ob-ohrane-zdorovya-grajdan Law of Turkmenistan on the protection of the health of citizens], Neytralny Turkmenistan no. 138-139, 2 July 2015. Article 19 {{in lang|ru}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|5 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Tuvalu|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>https://tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/1965/1965-0007/PenalCode_1.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622115435/http://tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/1965/1965-0007/PenalCode_1.pdf |date=22 June 2022 }} arts 150–152, 214, 227</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Uganda|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{yes|28 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Ukraine|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/435-15 art.281.6</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=ua|If the woman is under age 15 or over age 45, the gestational limit is 22 weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/go/144-2006-%D0%BF|title=Про реалізацію статті 281 Цивільного кодексу України|website=Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/go/z1155-06|title=Про затвердження Інструкції про порядок проведення операції штучного переривання вагітності, форм первинної облікової документації та інструкцій щодо їх заповнення|website=Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України}}</ref>}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=ua}} |- | {{flagg|**p|United Arab Emirates|pref=Abortion in the}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/ar/legislations/1192/ |title=مرسوم بقانون اتحادي بشأن المسؤولية الطبية |trans-title=Federal decree law on medical liability |at=Article 16 |publisher=Government of the United Arab Emirates |date=4 September 2023 |language=ar}}</ref><ref name=ae>{{cite web |url=https://www.uaelegislation.gov.ae/en/legislations/2505 |title=Cabinet resolution concerning the permitted abortion cases |publisher=Government of the United Arab Emirates |date=14 June 2024}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes2|120 days}}{{efn|name=ae|A Cabinet resolution on abortion, issued under the law on medical liability, permits abortion "based on the request of the spouses, after the approval of the committee", "and with the approval of the treating physician for the medical condition justifying the abortion", in the first 120 days of pregnancy.<ref name=ae/> These provisions are considered to permit abortion in case of risk to the woman's physical or mental health, and may also include other cases.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/uae-abortion-now-allowed-in-rape-incest-cases-as-new-law-issued |title=UAE: Abortion now allowed in rape, incest cases as new law issued |publisher=Khaleej Times |date=24 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://gulfnews.com/living-in-uae/ask-us/uae-introduces-new-abortion-resolution-heres-what-you-need-to-know-1.1719324525339 |title=UAE introduces new abortion resolution: Here's what you need to know |publisher=Gulf News |date=25 June 2024}}</ref>}} | data-sort-value="17 weeks" {{yes|120 days}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ae}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=ae}} |- | {{flagg|**p|United Kingdom|pref=Abortion in the}} [subdivisions] | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gb|This ground is not explicitly mentioned in the law but it is considered to be included in a ground for preserving physical or mental health.<ref name=gb1>[http://www.efc.org.uk/rape-and-abortion/ Rape and abortion], EFC.</ref><ref name=gb2>[https://www.bpas.org/get-involved/campaigns/briefings/abortion-law/ Britain's abortion law], British Pregnancy Advisory Service.</ref><ref name=gb3>[https://www.132healthwise.com/know-your-abortion-rights-in-the-uk.php Know Your Abortion Rights in the UK], 123 Healthwise.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=gbni|Abortion for this ground is permitted only in Northern Ireland, up to 12 weeks of gestation.<ref name=gbni/>}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-gb" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|England|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=gb>[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/87?view=extent Abortion Act 1967], Legislation.gov.uk.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-gb" | {{spaces|3}}{{noflag|Northern Ireland}}<ref name=gbni>[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/503/made The Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020], Legislation.gov.uk.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-gb" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Scotland|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=gb/> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-gb" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Wales|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=gb/> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=gb}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|United States|pref=Abortion in the}}<ref name=guttmacher>[https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-later-abortions State bans on abortion throughout pregnancy], Guttmacher Institute, 29 July 2024.</ref> [subdivisions] | {{yes|No limit}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=us|Abortion for this ground is not permitted in some states.}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=us}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=us}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=us}} | {{partial|Varies}}{{efn|name=us}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Alabama|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=usal>[https://arc-sos.state.al.us/ucp/B19136AA.ACR.pdf Alabama Human Life Protection Act], Alabama Legislature, 2019.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|Permitted in case of a lethal anomaly up to 20 weeks from fertilization, considered as 22 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref>[http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/26-23B-5.htm Section 26-23B-5], Alabama Legislature.</ref><ref name=usal/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Alaska|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Arizona|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.azleg.gov/ars/36/02321.htm |title=Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13. Public Health and Safety §36-2321. Definitions |publisher=Arizona State Legislature}}</ref><ref name=usaz1>{{cite web |url=https://www.azleg.gov/ars/36/02322.htm |title=Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13. Public Health and Safety §36-2322. Gestational limit on abortion; medical emergency exception; physician reports; confidentiality |publisher=Arizona State Legislature}}</ref><ref name=usaz2>{{cite web |url=https://www.azleg.gov/viewDocument/?docName=https://www.azleg.gov/const/2/8.1.htm |title=Arizona State Constitution, title 2, article 8.1. Fundamental right to abortion; definitions |publisher=Arizona State Legislature}}</ref>|| {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usaz|The law sets a gestational limit of 15 weeks for abortion on this ground,<ref name=usaz1/> but the constitution invalidates its enforcement before fetal viability.<ref name=usaz2/>}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usaz}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usaz}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usaz}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Arkansas|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/Document?type=pdf&act=180&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R SB149], Arkansas General Assembly, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2021R%2FPublic%2F&file=309.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2021%2F2021R SB6], Arkansas General Assembly, 2021.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|California|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon|This U.S. state has explicitly amended its constitution to guarantee the right to an abortion to its residents.}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Colorado|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Connecticut|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Delaware|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg||District of Columbia|link=Abortion in the District of Columbia}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Florida|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=usfl>{{cite web |url=http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0300-0399/0390/0390.html |title=Chapter 390, Termination of pregnancies |work=Florida Statutes |publisher=Florida Legislature}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|15 weeks}} | {{yes|6 weeks}}{{efn|Permitted in the first 23 weeks of gestation if the fetus has a fatal abnormality.<ref name=usfl/>}} | {{yes|6 weeks}} | {{yes|6 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Georgia (U.S. state)|name=Georgia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/title-16/chapter-12/article-5/section-16-12-141/ Georgia Code section 16-12-141], Justia.</ref><ref>[https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/title-31/chapter-9b/section-31-9b-1/ Georgia Code section 31-9B-1], Justia.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/georgia-supreme-court-reinstates-states-6-week-abortion-ban-rcna174336 |title=Georgia Supreme Court reinstates state's 6-week abortion ban |publisher=NBC News |date=7 October 2024}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=us4|Defined as 20 weeks from fertilization, considered as 22 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref name=guttmacher/>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|heartbeat}}{{efn|name=us3}} | {{yes|heartbeat}}{{efn|name=us3}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Hawaii|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Idaho|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=usid>[https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title18/T18CH6/SECT18-622/ Section 18-622], Idaho Legislature, 2023.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|No limit}}{{efn|This ground is not mentioned in the state law but it is established by judicial decision based on federal law.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court-sidesteps-ruling-emergency-room-abortion-access-dispute-rcna159111 |title=Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now |publisher=NBC |date=27 June 2024}}</ref>}}|| {{yes|15 weeks}}{{efn|Defined as 13 weeks from fertilization, considered as 15 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref name=usid/><ref>[https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title18/T18CH6/SECT18-604/ Section 18-604], Idaho Legislature, 2023.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Illinois|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Indiana|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=usin>[http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022ss1/bills/senate/1 Senate Bill 1], Indiana General Assembly, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/indianas-near-total-abortion-ban-cleared-effect-supreme-court-decision-dobbs-exceptions-law/531-f4bf9db5-d28b-4648-8f3d-4baee26be1b2 Indiana's near-total abortion ban goes into effect after Supreme Court decision], WTHR, 21 August 2023.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|Defined as 10 weeks from fertilization, considered as 12 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref name=usin/>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|Permitted in case of a lethal anomaly up to 20 weeks from fertilization, considered as 22 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref name=usin/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Iowa|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2024/146B.pdf |title=Iowa Code Chapter 146B, Abortion – Postfertilization age |publisher=Iowa Legislature}}</ref><ref name=usia>{{cite web |url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2024/146E.pdf |title=Iowa Code Chapter 146E, Abortion – Fetal heartbeat |publisher=Iowa Legislature}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2024-07-29/iowa-six-week-fetal-heartbeat-abortion-ban-in-effect |title=Iowa law banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy is now in effect |publisher=Iowa Public Radio |date=29 July 2024}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=us4}} | {{yes|heartbeat}}{{efn|name=us3|Prohibited after embryonic or fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is possible after approximately '''6 weeks''' of gestation.}}{{efn|Permitted in case of a fetal abnormality incompatible with life up to 20 weeks from fertilization, considered as 22 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref name=usia/>}} | {{yes|heartbeat}}{{efn|name=us3}} | {{yes|heartbeat}}{{efn|name=us3}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Kansas|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Kentucky|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=49228 KRS 311.722], Kentucky General Assembly.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Gonzalez|first=Oriana|title=Kentucky Supreme Court refuses to block state abortion bans|url=https://www.axios.com/2023/02/16/kentucky-supreme-court-abortion-bans-trigger/|website=Axios|date=February 16, 2023}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Louisiana|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=usla>[http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1289698 Act No. 545], Louisiana State Legislature, 2022.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|Permitted in certain cases of fatal anomalies.<ref name=usla/><ref>[https://ldh.la.gov/assets/oph/Rulemaking/er/LDH_ER_List_of_Conditions_that_Shall_Deem_an_Unborn_Child_Medically_Futile_CLV_Signed_and_Dated_1_August_2022.pdf List of conditions that shall deem an unborn child "medically futile"], Louisiana Department of Health, 2022.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Maine|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=usme>[https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/22/title22sec1598.html Title 22 §1598. Abortions], Maine Revised Statutes, Maine Legislature.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usme|Abortion after viability is allowed if a physician judges it "necessary" under the "applicable standard of care".<ref name=usme/>}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usme}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usme}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Maryland|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}}<ref name=usmd1>[https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gcr&section=2-103 Criminal Law §2–103], Statutes, Maryland General Assembly.</ref><ref name=usmd2>[https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=ghg&section=20-209 Health – General §20–209], Statutes, Maryland General Assembly.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usmd|Criminal law prohibits abortion after fetal viability except as stated in health law,<ref name=usmd1/> and health law states that "the State may not interfere" with abortion on this ground before viability.<ref name=usmd2/> Sources disagree whether it is actually prohibited after viability.<ref>[https://www.findlaw.com/state/maryland-law/maryland-abortion-laws.html Maryland Abortion Laws], FindLaw.</ref><ref name=guttmacher/>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usmd}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usmd}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Massachusetts|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Michigan|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}}<ref>[https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billanalysis/Senate/htm/2023-SFA-0002-N.htm Abortion penalties; repeal], Michigan Legislature.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Minnesota|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/145.412 145.412 Repealed], Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Legislature.</ref><ref>[https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2022/cite/145.412 145.412 Criminal acts], 2022 Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Legislature.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Mississippi|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1400SG.htm House Bill 1400], Mississippi Legislature, 2014.</ref><ref>[http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2007/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2391SG.htm Senate Bill 2391] Mississippi Legislature, 2007.</ref><ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/Health/abortion-trigger-law-effect-mississippi-case-overturned-roe/story?id=86366550 Abortion trigger law goes into effect in Mississippi, where the case that overturned Roe v. Wade originated], ABC News, 7 July 2022.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Missouri|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=188.015 |title=188.015. Definitions |work=Revised Statutes of Missouri |publisher=Missouri Revisor of Statutes}}</ref><ref name=usmo1>{{cite web |url=https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=188.017 |title=188.017. Right to Life of the Unborn Child Act |work=Revised Statutes of Missouri |publisher=Missouri Revisor of Statutes}}</ref><ref name=usmo2>{{cite web |url=https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=I%2036&constit=y |title=I Section 36. Right to reproductive freedom initiative |work=Constitution of Missouri |publisher=Missouri Revisor of Statutes}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|viability}}{{efn|name=usmo|The law prohibits abortion on this ground,<ref name=usmo1/> but the constitution invalidates its enforcement before fetal viability.<ref name=usmo2/>}} | {{yes2|viability}}{{efn|name=usmo}} | {{yes2|viability}}{{efn|name=usmo}} | {{yes2|viability}}{{efn|name=usmo}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Montana|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Nebraska|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=28-3,106 Nebraska Revised Statute 28-3,106. Abortion; performance; restrictions], Nebraska Legislature.</ref><ref>[https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Slip/LB574.pdf Legislative Bill 574], Nebraska Legislature, 22 May 2023.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=us4}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Nevada|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|New Hampshire|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2022&id=1193&txtFormat=html House bill 1609-FN], General Court of New Hampshire, 2022.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|New Jersey|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|New Mexico|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/gov-lujan-grisham-signs-senate-bill-10-repealing-1969-abortion-ban-/6024875/ Gov. Lujan Grisham signs Senate Bill 10, repealing 1969 abortion ban], KOB, 26 February 2021.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|New York|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=usny|Also allowed after this period if there is an absence of fetal viability.<ref>[https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PBH/2599-BB Chapter 45, article 25-A, section 2599-BB, Abortion], Consolidated Laws of New York, New York State Senate.</ref>}} | {{yes|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=usny}} | {{yes|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=usny}} | {{yes|24 weeks}}{{efn|name=usny}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|North Carolina|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=usnc>[https://ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/SessionLaws/PDF/2023-2024/SL2023-14.pdf Session law 2023-14], General Assembly of North Carolina.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|20 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|Permitted up to 24 weeks of gestation in case of a life-limiting anomaly.<ref name=usnc/>}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|North Dakota|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t12-1c19-1.pdf |title=Chapter 12.1-19.1 – Abortion |work=Century Code |publisher=North Dakota Legislative Council}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/north-dakotas-top-court-revives-states-abortion-ban-2025-11-22/ |title=North Dakota's top court revives state's abortion ban |publisher=Reuters |date=21 November 2025}}</ref>|| {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|6 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Ohio|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}}<ref name=usoh1>{{cite web |url=https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2919.195 |title=Ohio Revised Code Section 2919.195 – Performance of abortion after detection of fetal heartbeat; penalty |publisher=Ohio Legislative Service Commission}}</ref><ref name=usoh2>{{cite web |url=https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-constitution/section-1.22 |title=Ohio Constitution Article I, Section 22 – The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety |publisher=Ohio Legislative Service Commission}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usoh|The law prohibits abortion on this ground after embryonic or fetal cardiac activity is detected,<ref name=usoh1/> which is possible after approximately 6 weeks of gestation, but the constitution invalidates its enforcement before fetal viability.<ref name=usoh2/>}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usoh}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usoh}} | {{yes|Viability}}{{efn|name=usoh}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Oklahoma|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://oksenate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/os21.pdf Section 21-861], Oklahoma Senate, 2019.</ref><ref>[http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22%20ENR/SB/SB612%20ENR.PDF SB 612], Oklahoma Legislature, 2022.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Oregon|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Pennsylvania|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} | {{yes|24 weeks}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Rhode Island|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|South Carolina|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t44c041.php Title 44 – Health, Chapter 41 – Abortions], South Carolina Code of Laws, South Carolina Legislature.</ref><ref>[https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/474.htm Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act], South Carolina General Assembly, 2023.</ref><ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/politics/south-carolina-supreme-court-six-week-abortion-ban/index.html South Carolina Supreme Court upholds 6-week abortion ban], CNN, 23 August 2023.</ref>|| {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|heartbeat}}{{efn|name=us3}} | {{yes|heartbeat}}{{efn|name=us3}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|South Dakota|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/2047216 Codified law 22-17-5.1], South Dakota Legislature.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Tennessee|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://legiscan.com/TN/text/HB1029/id/1893924/Tennessee-2019-HB1029-Draft.pdf HB1029], Tennessee State Legislature, 2019.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Texas|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/executive-management/Post-Roe%20Advisory.pdf Advisory on Texas law upon reversal of Roe v. Wade], Attorney General of Texas.</ref><ref>[https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/02/texas-abortion-1925-ban-supreme-court/ Texas can enforce 1925 abortion ban, state Supreme Court says], The Texas Tribune, 2 July 2022.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Utah|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0136.html HB136], Utah State Legislature, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/sb0174.html SB174], Utah State Legislature, 2020.</ref><ref>[https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/utah-judge-blocks-states-sweeping-new-abortion-ban-2022-07-11/ Utah judge blocks state's sweeping new abortion ban], Reuters, 12 July 2022.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|18 weeks}}{{efn|In case of a lethal anomaly or a severe brain abnormality, no limit is specified.}}{{efn|name=us2|A law prohibits abortion on this ground or sets a lower gestational limit but it is suspended by judicial decision.}} | {{yes2|18 weeks}}{{efn|name=us2}} | {{yes2|18 weeks}}{{efn|name=us2}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Vermont|pref=Abortion in}}{{efn|name=USstatecon}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Virginia|pref=Abortion in}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | data-sort-value="26 weeks" {{yes|6 months}} | {{yes|6 months}} | data-sort-value="26 weeks" {{yes|6 months}} | data-sort-value="26 weeks" {{yes|6 months}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg||Washington|link=Abortion in Washington}}<ref>[https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.02&full=true Chapter 9.02, Abortion], Revised Code of Washington, Washington State Legislature.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|West Virginia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=uswv>[http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB302%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=3X&i=302 House Bill 302], West Virginia Legislature, 2022.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|11 weeks}}{{efn|Defined as 8 weeks from implantation, approximately 11 weeks from the last menstrual period. If the patient is a minor or an incompetent or incapacitated adult, abortion in case of rape is permitted in the first 14 weeks from implantation, approximately 17 weeks from the last menstrual period.<ref name=uswv/>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|Permitted with no gestational limit if the fetus has a lethal anomaly.<ref name=uswv/>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Wisconsin|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/253 |title= Chapter 253, Maternal and child health |publisher=Wisconsin State Legislature}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/legislative_reports/lrb_legislative_report_15_2.pdf |title=Abortion Laws in Wisconsin |publisher=Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau |date=December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223074248/https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/legislative_reports/lrb_legislative_report_15_2.pdf |archive-date=23 February 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Lehr|first1=Sarah|last2=Faust|first2=Margaret|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200610927/abortions-resume-in-wisconsin-after-15-months-of-legal-uncertainty|title=Abortions resume in Wisconsin after 15 months of legal uncertainty |website=NPR|date=21 September 2023|access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes2|No limit}}{{efn|name=us2}} | {{yes2|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=us4}}{{efn|name=us2}} | {{yes2|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=us4}}{{efn|name=us2}} | {{yes2|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=us4}}{{efn|name=us2}} | {{yes2|22 weeks}}{{efn|name=us4}}{{efn|name=us2}} |- class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-us" | {{spaces|3}}{{flagg|**p|Wyoming|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2022/HB0092 HB0092], Wyoming Legislature, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2023/HB0152 HB0152], Wyoming Legislature, 2023.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Gruver|first=Mead|title=Judge halts Wyoming abortion ban days after it took effect|url=https://apnews.com/article/abortion-ban-wyoming-1688775972407a02b2431a69abdb4670|website=AP News|date=March 22, 2023|access-date=March 22, 2023}}</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes|Viability}} | {{yes2|viability}}{{efn|name=us2}} | {{yes2|viability}}{{efn|name=us2}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Uruguay|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/18987-2012 Law on voluntary interruption of pregnancy. Abortion law], National Directorate of Prints and Official Publications, 30 October 2012 {{in lang|es}}.</ref><ref>[https://www.mysu.org.uy/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Descargue-aquí-el-Manual-de-Procedimientos-IVE.pdf Manual of Procedures for the Sanitary Management of Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202115135/https://www.mysu.org.uy/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Descargue-aqu%C3%AD-el-Manual-de-Procedimientos-IVE.pdf |date=2 December 2021 }}, Ministry of Public Health, 2014 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|14 weeks}}{{efn|name=uy|A judge may also remove the penalty for abortion on this ground in the first 3 months from conception.<ref>[https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/codigo-penal/9155-1933 Penal Code], National Directorate of Prints and Official Publications, updated on 9 July 2020 {{in lang|es}}.</ref>}} | {{yes|No limit}} | {{yes|12 weeks}}{{efn|name=uy}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Uzbekistan|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>"Об утверждении стандартов искусственного прерывания беременности" [On approval of standards for artificial termination of pregnancy]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20211121041514/http://www.med.uz/fergana/documents/detail.php?ID=34077 ''Law No. 312 of 10 September 2013''] {{in lang|ru}}. Archived from [http://www.med.uz/fergana/documents/detail.php?ID=34077 the original] on 21 November 2021.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|12 weeks}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Vanuatu|pref=Abortion in}}<ref name=vu>{{cite web|date=17 November 2011|title=Laws of the Republic of Vanuatu, consolidated edition 2006 – Penal Code, Ch. 135. Article 117 |website=International Labour Organization|url-status=live|archive-date=19 October 2021 |url=http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/88512/101229/F1616956608/VUT88512.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019005957/http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/88512/101229/F1616956608/VUT88512.pdf}}</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes2|Permitted}}{{efn|The penal code says that abortion is permitted for "good medical reasons"<ref name=vu/> but is unclear whether it means only to save the woman's life or also to preserve her health. The UN source marks it as a permitted ground.}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Vatican City|pref=Abortion in}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|The law of Vatican City is primarily based on the canon law of the Catholic Church and applies the Italian penal code in force in 1929 with local modifications.<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/labour_office/docs/documents/ulsa_b16_1_it.html Law on the sources of law], ''Acta Apostolicae Sedis'', Supplement for the laws and provisions of Vatican City State, 1 October 2008. {{in lang|it}}</ref> Both sources of law prohibit abortion without explicitly mentioning any exception.<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P57.HTM Title VI. Delicts against human life and freedom], Code of Canon Law, Holy See.</ref><ref name=it1889>[http://www.antropologiagiuridica.it/cp1889.pdf Penal code for the Kingdom of Italy, 1889], University of Brescia College of Law. {{in lang|it}}</ref> Article 49 of the penal code lists the principle of necessity to save one's life, which removes punishment for any action that would otherwise be a crime,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0ohOAQAAIAAJ&pg=145 Report to His Majesty the King from the Minister Keeper of the Seals (Zanardelli) at the hearing of 30 June 1889 for the approval of the final text of the penal code], pp. 145–146. "On the agreed proposal of the parliamentary commissions, the provision that was read in the bill, according to which it was declared 'not punishable the doctor or surgeon, when he justifies having acted in order to save the woman's life, endangered by the pregnancy or by childbirth', was deleted"; "The vote expressed in agreement in parliament led me to the aforesaid deletion, not to exclude the application of the concept that was expressed there, but because it was superfluous and inappropriate to declare it, providing if needed article 49 number 3, the application of which would be only, and without reason, restricted." {{in lang|it}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ctcVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29 Criminal abortion in the Italian penal code], Pasquale Tuozzi, Filippo Serafini Legal Archive, 1902, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 29. "However, if you want to search for a provision in our code that covers the surgeon, in addition to article 45, in which the aforesaid reason is rooted, there is also number 3 of article 49, where it is declared the nonresponsibility of one who acts compelled by the need to save himself or others from a serious and imminent danger to the person, to which he did not voluntarily give cause, and which he could not otherwise avoid. Well, these extremes of the state of necessity all apply in the case of the surgeon, who, put in the harsh condition, not created by him, extinguishes an imperfect and perhaps uncertain existence, to save a certain and real existence, which is that of the woman in childbirth." {{in lang|it}}</ref> but the Church's official interpretation of canon 1398 is more restrictive, allowing in such cases only indirect abortion under the principle of double effect.<ref>[https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/abortion-and-the-catholic-church-9580 Abortion and the Catholic Church], Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia, American Life League.</ref><ref>[http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives/011703/011703d.htm Under Vatican ruling, abortion triggers automatic excommunication], National Catholic Reporter, 17 January 2003.</ref>}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Venezuela|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.oas.org/juridico/spanish/mesicic3_ven_anexo6.pdf Penal Code of Venezuela], Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 20 October 2000. Article 435 {{in lang|es}}.</ref><ref>[https://www.paho.org/ven/images/stories/VEN/protocolos/obstetrico/PROTOCOLO_OBSTETRICO.pdf Protocols of care. Prenatal care and emergency obstetric care], Government of Venezuela, March 2014 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Vietnam|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{cite web|author=Trần Minh Nghĩa|date=24 August 2018|title=HƯỚNG DÉN QUỐC GIA|language=vi|trans-title=NATIONAL GUIDELINES|website=Ministry of Health - Government of Vietnam|url-status=live|archive-date=23 November 2021 |url=https://mch.moh.gov.vn/Upload/Documents/2018/10/41ec50b84ccf0e7baa8af44b58efe8d1-HDQG%20cham%20soc%20bmte%20ver%202018%20final%20280718.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123090732/https://mch.moh.gov.vn/Upload/Documents/2018/10/41ec50b84ccf0e7baa8af44b58efe8d1-HDQG%20cham%20soc%20bmte%20ver%202018%20final%20280718.pdf}}</ref><ref>https://m.thuvienphapluat.vn/van-ban/the-thao-y-te/luat-bao-ve-suc-khoe-nhan-dan-1989-21-lct-hdnn8-37690.aspx 44</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|22 weeks}}{{efn|Depending on the capacity at each level of hospital.<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/S0968-8080%2808%2931393-7 Second Trimester Abortion in Viet Nam: Changing to Recommended Methods and Improving Service Delivery], Tuyet T.D. Hoang, Thuy Phan and Trang N.K. Huynh, 2 September 2008.</ref><ref>[https://www.angloinfo.com/how-to/vietnam/healthcare/pregnancy-birth/termination-abortion Termination of Pregnancy and Abortion in Vietnam], Angloinfo.</ref><ref>[https://arrow.org.my/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Country-Profile-on-SRR-Vietnam.pdf Country Profile on Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Vietnam], Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, 2017.</ref>}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Yemen|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>https://www.ecoi.net/en/file/local/1197106/1504_1218032308_republican-decree-by-law-no-12-for-1994-concerning-crimes-and-penalties.pdf (penal code) https://yemen-nic.info/db/laws_ye/detail.php?ID=11424 art.240 https://yemen-nic.info/db/laws_ye/detail.php?ID=11755</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Zambia|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>[https://www.parliament.gov.zm/sites/default/files/documents/acts/Termination%20of%20Pregnancy%20Act.pdf The Termination of Pregnancy Act], National Assembly of Zambia.</ref> | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{yes|Permitted}} | {{no|Prohibited}} |- | {{flagg|**p|Zimbabwe|pref=Abortion in}}<ref>{{Cite book|author=Ministry of Health and Child Welfare|url=https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/10-Zimbabwe-National-Guidelines-for-Post-Abortion-Care-Ministry-of-Health-2001.pdf|title=National Guidelines for Post Abortion Care|publisher=Hunyani Printopak|year=2001|isbn=1-779-09-010-2|edition=1st|location=Harare}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=October 2018|title=Induced Abortion and Postabortion Care in Zimbabwe|url=https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/abortion-zimbabwe|publisher=Guttmacher Institute|quote=In practice, it is extremely difficult to obtain a legal abortion; as a result, most abortions are clandestine and potentially unsafe.}} Updated as of 16 July 2019.</ref> | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{yes2|22 weeks}}{{efn|The law prohibits abortion in case of rape within marriage or under age 18,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.law.co.zw/download/termination-of-pregnancy-act |title=Termination of Pregnancy Act |publisher=Law.co.zw}}</ref> but it is invalidated by judicial decision.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/zimbabwe-abortion-marital-rape-underage-sex-court-64fd180a29e9bf3f8611874275d9f340 |title=Zimbabwe court rules against law that denies abortion to marital rape victims and girls below 18 |publisher=Associated Press |date=3 December 2024}}</ref>}} | {{yes|22 weeks}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=zw|The 2014 Guidelines for Comprehensive Abortion Care says "In Zimbabwe termination of pregnancy may be permitted for HIV-positive women if they choose to do so."<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=National Guidelines for Comprehensive Abortion care in Zimbabwe - 2014|website=Ministry of Health and Child Care|url=https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/05-Zimbabwe-National-Guidelines-for-Comprehensive-Abortion-care-2014.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018194740/https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/documents/countries/05-Zimbabwe-National-Guidelines-for-Comprehensive-Abortion-care-2014.pdf|archive-date=18 October 2021}}</ref>}} | {{no2|Prohibited}}{{efn|name=zw}} |- class=sortbottom |} {{sticky table end}}

====Autonomous jurisdictions==== The table below summarizes the legal grounds for abortion in autonomous jurisdictions not included in the previous table.

===Comparative limits for countries with elective abortions=== {{Globalize section|Europe|North America|date=July 2022}} Legal limits may not be directly comparable. Limits may be expressed in trimesters, months, weeks of pregnancy (implantation), weeks from fertilization, or weeks from last menstrual period (LMP). {{Elective abortion map of Europe|align=left}} {{Abortion map of the United States}} {{Abortion map of Canada}} {{Abortion map of Australia}} {{clear}}

===Countries with more restrictive laws=== [[File:Vigilia por la votación de la Ley de Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo en Paraná 24.jpg|thumb|Supporter of legalized abortion at a rally in Paraná, Argentina. Argentina had restrictive laws until 2021.]] According to a report by Women on Waves,{{Better source needed|date=October 2021}} approximately 25% of the world's population{{As of?|date=December 2021}} lives in countries with "highly restrictive abortion laws"—that is, laws which either completely ban abortion, or allow it only to save the mother's life. This category includes several countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, as well as Andorra and Malta in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.womenonwaves.org/en/page/460/abortion-laws-worldwide|title=Abortion Laws Worldwide|first=Marc|last=Worrell|website=Women on Waves}}</ref> The Center for Reproductive Rights report that "[t]he inability to access safe and legal abortion care impacts 700 million women of reproductive age."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reproductiverights.org/worldabortionlaws|title=The World's Abortion Laws {{!}} Center for Reproductive Rights|website=reproductiverights.org|language=en|access-date=7 January 2020}}</ref>

Some of the countries of Central America, notably El Salvador, have also come to international attention due to very forceful enforcement of the laws, including the incarceration of a gang-rape victim for homicide when she gave birth to a stillborn son and was accused of attempting an illegal abortion.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/el-salvador-stillbirth-retrial-evelyn-hernandez|title=El Salvador will seek third trial of woman accused of 'murdering' stillborn|agency=Reuters|date=6 September 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=7 January 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/07/el-salvador-rape-survivor-sentenced-to-30-years-in-jail-under-extreme-anti-abortion-law/|title=El Salvador: Rape survivor sentenced to 30 years in jail under extreme anti-abortion law|website=www.amnesty.org|date=6 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-32491838/el-salvador-women-jailed-for-miscarriages|title=El Salvador: Women jailed for miscarriages|date=28 April 2015|work=BBC News}}</ref>

El Salvador has some of the strictest abortion laws of any country. Abortion under all circumstances, including rape, incest, and risk to the mother's health, is illegal. Women can be criminalized and penalized to up to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of an abortion. El Salvador's abortion laws are so severe that miscarriages and stillbirths can sometimes be enough for conviction. The Inter-American Court has already ruled that El Salvador was responsible for the death of Manuela, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2008 for aggravated homicide after suffering an obstetric emergency that resulted in her losing her pregnancy.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-23 |title=El Salvador: Court Hears Case on Total Abortion Ban |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/23/el-salvador-court-hears-case-total-abortion-ban |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=Human Rights Watch |language=en}}</ref>

===Beginning of pregnancy controversy=== {{Main|Beginning of pregnancy controversy}} Controversy over the beginning of pregnancy occurs in different contexts, particularly in a legal context, and is particularly discussed within the abortion debate from the point of measuring the gestational age of the pregnancy. Pregnancy can be measured from a number of convenient points, including the day of last menstruation, ovulation, fertilization, implantation and chemical detection. A common medical way to calculate gestational age is to measure pregnancy from the first day of the last menstrual cycle.{{efn|Some examples of gestational age calculated from the first day of the last menstrual cycle:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rewire.news/article/2013/10/17/whats-in-a-week-pregnancy-dating-standards-and-what-they-mean/|title=How Doctors Date Pregnancies, Explained |date=17 October 2013 |publisher= Rewire}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Abortion/Pages/Introduction.aspx|title=Abortion |first=NHS|last=Choices|website=www.nhs.uk|date=18 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/269509|title=Pregnancy—first day of the last menstrual period|website=meteor.aihw.gov.au}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://reference.medscape.com/calculator/estimated-delivery-date-pregnancy|title=Estimated Date of Delivery (EDD) Pregnancy Calculator|website=reference.medscape.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/gestational+age|title=gestational age|website=TheFreeDictionary.com}}</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=December 2021}}}} However, not all legal systems use this measure for the purpose of abortion law; for example countries such as Belgium, France, and Luxembourg use the term "pregnancy" in the abortion law to refer to the time elapsed from the sexual act that led to conception, which is presumed to be 2 weeks after the end of the last menstrual period.{{efn|For example Luxembourg abortion law states: "Avant la fin de la 12e semaine de grossesse ou avant la fin de la 14e semaine d'aménorrhée ...", which translates to "Before the end of the 12th week of pregnancy or before the end of the 14th week of amenorrhea".<ref name=lu>[http://legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2014/12/17/n2/jo Law of 17 December 2014 amending 1) of the Penal Code and 2) of the law of 15 November 1978 relating to sexual information, the prevention of clandestine abortion and the regulation of voluntary termination of pregnancy], Government of Luxembourg, 17 December 2014 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>}}

==Exceptions in abortion law== Exceptions in abortion laws occur either in countries where abortion is as a general rule illegal or in countries that have abortion on request with gestational limits. For example, if a country allows abortion on request until 12 weeks, it may create exceptions to this general gestation limit for later abortions in specific circumstances.<ref>{{cite web|date=18 May 2000|title=About the Abortion Act|url=https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumentarkiv/Regjeringen-Stoltenberg-I/andre-dokumenter/hod/2000/about-the-abortion-act/id419252|website=Government.no}}</ref>

There are a few exceptions commonly found in abortion laws. Legal domains which do not have abortion on demand will often allow it when the health of the mother is at stake. "Health of the mother" may mean something different in different areas: for example, prior to December 2018, Ireland allowed abortion only to save the mother's life, whereas abortion opponents in the United States argue health exceptions are used so broadly as to render a ban essentially meaningless.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kliff|first=Sarah|date=15 October 2008|title=Abortion: What the 'Health' Exemption Really Means|work=Newsweek|url=https://www.newsweek.com/abortion-what-health-exemption-really-means-91645}}</ref>

Laws allowing abortion in cases of rape or incest often differ. For example, before ''Roe v. Wade'', thirteen U.S. states allowed abortion in the case of either rape or incest, but only Mississippi permitted abortion of pregnancies due to rape, and no state permitted it for just incest.<ref>{{cite web|date=22 June 2006|title=States Probe Limits of Abortion Policy|url=https://www.pewtrusts.org/es/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2006/06/22/states-probe-limits-of-abortion-policy|access-date=31 October 2021|publisher=The Pew Charitable Trusts}}</ref>

Many{{Vague|date=March 2019}} countries allow abortion only through the first or second trimester, and some may allow abortion in cases of fetal defects, e.g., Down syndrome, or where the pregnancy is the result of a sexual crime.

==Other related laws== {{Main|Legal protection of access to abortion}} Laws in some countries with liberal abortion laws protect access to abortion services. Such legislation often seeks to guard abortion clinics against obstruction, vandalism, picketing, and other actions, or to protect patients and employees of such facilities from threats and harassment. Other laws create a perimeter around a facility, known variously as a "buffer zone", "bubble zone", or "access zone", where demonstrations opposing abortion are not permitted. Protests and other displays are restricted to a certain distance from the building, which varies depending on the law. Similar zones have also been created to protect the homes of abortion providers and clinic staff. Bubble zone laws are divided into "fixed" and "floating" categories. Fixed bubble zone laws apply to the static area around the facility itself, and floating laws to objects in transit, such as people or cars.<ref name="cfr">Center for Reproductive Rights. (n.d.). [http://www.reproductiverights.org/st_clinic_picketing.html Picketing and Harassment]. Retrieved 14 December 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061130201450/http://www.reproductiverights.org/st_clinic_picketing.html |date=30 November 2006 }}</ref> Because of conflicts between anti-abortion activists on one side and women seeking abortion and medical staff who provides abortion on the other side, some laws are quite strict: in South Africa for instance, any person who prevents the lawful termination of a pregnancy or obstructs access to a facility for the termination of a pregnancy faces up to 10 years in prison (section 10.1 (c) of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saflii.org/za/legis/num_act/cotopa1996325/|title=Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1996 [No. 92 of 1996] – G 17602|website=www.saflii.org}}</ref>).

On 3 November 2020, an association of 20 Kenyan charities urged the government of Kenya to withdraw from the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), a US-led international accord that sought to limit access to abortion for girls and women around the world. GCD was signed by 33 nations, on 22 October 2020.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-women-abortion-trfn/kenyan-charities-urge-government-to-quit-us-led-anti-abortion-pact-idUSKBN27J22Y|title=Kenyan charities urge government to quit U.S.-led anti-abortion pact|access-date=3 November 2020|website=Reuters|date=3 November 2020|last1=Bhalla|first1=Nita}}</ref>

==Judicial decisions== {{Multiple issues|section=yes| {{Table section needs prose|date=October 2021}} {{List missing criteria|date=September 2022}} }} {{Dynamic list|date=December 2021}} {{sticky table start}} {| class="wikitable sortable sticky-table-head plainrowheaders" |- ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Jurisdiction ! scope="col" | Description ! scope="col" | Abortion access affirmed or expanded? |- ! scope="row" | 1879 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Canada|variant=1868}} || Abortion trial of Emily Stowe || |- ! scope="row" | 1938 | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United Kingdom}} || ''Rex v Bourne'' Abortion in case of risk to physical or mental health included in risk to life. The decision was also implemented by some British territories and their successors.<ref name=bourne/> || {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" | 1952 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Canada|variant=1921}} || ''Azoulay v The Queen''<ref>{{Cite CanLII|litigants=Azoulay v. The Queen|link=Azoulay v R|year=1952|court=SCC|num=4|format=canlii|parallelcite=[1952] 2 S.C.R. 495|date=November 4, 1952|courtname=auto}}</ref> || |- ! scope="row" | 1969 | {{flag|Victoria}} (Australia) || ''R v Davidson''{{efn|Also known as the "Menhennitt ruling".}} Abortion allowed in case of risk to life, and physical or mental health.<ref>{{Cite AustLII|VicRp|85|1969|litigants=R v Davidson (Menhennitt ruling)|parallelcite=VR 667|courtname=auto}}</ref> || {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1971 | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''United States v. Vuitch'' || {{Failure|Restrictions upheld}} |- | {{flag|New South Wales}} (Australia) || ''R v Wald'' Abortion in case of socioeconomic reasons included in risk to physical or mental health. || rowspan="3" {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1973 | rowspan="2" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} | ''Doe v. Bolton'' Abortion allowed after viability if necessary to protect her health. |- | ''Roe v. Wade'' Abortion allowed on demand in the entire country. |- ! scope="row" | 1975 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Germany}} || German Federal Constitutional Court abortion decision || {{No|Law restricted}} |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1976 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Canada}} || ''Morgentaler v The Queen'' || {{Failure|Restrictions upheld}} |- | rowspan="3" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Planned Parenthood v. Danforth'' || {{Success|Legalization upheld}} |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1979 | ''Maher v. Roe'' || |- | ''Colautti v. Franklin'' || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1980 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Puerto Rico}} || ''Pueblo v. Duarte'' Application of ''Roe v. Wade'' to Puerto Rico.<ref name=pr/> || {{Yes}} |- | rowspan="2" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Harris v. McRae'' || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1981 | ''H. L. v. Matheson'' || {{Failure|Restrictions upheld}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Israel}} || ''A. v. B.'' Paternal consent not required. || rowspan="2" {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" | 1983 | rowspan="2" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health'' |- ! scope="row" | 1986 | ''Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists'' || |- ! scope="row" | 1988 | rowspan="2" | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Canada}} || ''R v Morgentaler'' || {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1989 | ''Borowski v Canada (AG)'' || |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Webster v. Reproductive Health Services'' || {{Failure|Restrictions upheld}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Canada}} || ''Tremblay v Daigle'' || rowspan="2" {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" | 1990 | rowspan="2" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Hodgson v. Minnesota'' |- ! scope="row" | 1991 | ''Rust v. Sullivan'' || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1992 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Ireland}} || ''Attorney General v X'' Abortion allowed in case of risk to life, including risk of suicide. || rowspan="2" {{Yes}} |- | rowspan="2" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Planned Parenthood v. Casey'' |- ! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 1993 | ''Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic'' || |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Germany}} || 2 BvF 2/90<ref name=de>[https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/e/fs19930528_2bvf000290en.html Order of the Second Senate of 28 May 1993 – 2 BvF 2/90], Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.</ref> || |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Canada}} || ''R v Morgentaler'' || rowspan="2" {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" | 1995 | {{flag|New South Wales}} (Australia) || ''CES v. Superclinics'' Physical or mental health should be considered not only during the pregnancy but also after the birth. |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1997 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Poland}} || K 26/96 Abortion for economic or social reasons ruled unconstitutional.<ref name=pl1/> || {{No|Law restricted}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists'' || |- ! scope="row" | 1998 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|South Africa}} || ''Christian Lawyers Association v Minister of Health'' Law allowing abortion on demand ruled constitutional. || {{Success|Legalization upheld}} |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2000 | rowspan="2" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Hill v. Colorado'' || |- | ''Stenberg v. Carhart'' Supreme Court struck down Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban. || rowspan="2" {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" | 2001 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Argentina}} || ''T., S. v. Government of Buenos Aires City''<ref>[http://www.saij.gob.ar/corte-suprema-justicia-nacion-federal-ciudad-autonoma-buenos-aires--gobierno-ciudad-buenos-aires-amparo-fa01000001-2001-01-11/123456789-100-0001-0ots-eupmocsollaf T., S. c/ Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires s/ amparo], Supreme Court of Argentina, 11 January 2001 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> |- ! scope="row" | 2003 | rowspan="4" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Scheidler v. National Organization for Women'' || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="6" | 2006 | ''Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England'' || |- | ''Scheidler v. National Organization for Women'' || |- | ''Gonzales v. Carhart'' Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. || {{Failure|Restrictions upheld}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Colombia}} || Constitutional Court allowed abortion in case of danger to woman's life or health, rape, and fetal deformation.<ref name=co>{{Cite court|court=Constitutional Court|vol=Sentencia C-355/06|date=10 May 2006|url=http://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2006/c-355-06.htm}}</ref> || {{Yes}} |- | {{flag|Council of Europe|without-e}} || ''D v Ireland'' || |- | {{flag|New South Wales}} (Australia) || ''R v Sood''<ref>{{Cite AustLII|NSWSC|762|2006|litigants=R v Sood (No 3)|courtname=auto}}</ref> || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2007 | {{flag|Council of Europe|without-e}} || ''Tysiąc v Poland''<ref>[https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Tysiac_decision.pdf ''Tysiąc v Poland''], Council of Europe, 20 March 2007.</ref> || |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Slovakia}} || Constitutional Court ruled law allowing abortion on demand constitutional.<ref>[https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9780812209990.56/pdf Women's Rights in the Abortion Decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court], 2014.</ref> || {{Success|Legalization upheld}} |- ! scope="row" | 2008 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Nepal}} || ''Achyut Kharel v. Government of Nepal'' <ref>{{Cite court|litigants=Advocate Achyut Prasad Kharel v. Office of Prime-minister and Council of Ministers, Kathmandu and Ors.|court=Supreme Court of Nepal|date=4 August 2008|url=https://www.globalhealthrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SC-2008-Advocate-Achyut-Prasad-Kharel-v.-Govt-of-Nepal-and-Ors..pdf}}</ref>|| |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2009 | {{flag|Council of Europe|without-e}} || ''A, B and C v Ireland'' The court rejected the argument that article 8 conferred a right to abortion, but found that Ireland had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to provide an accessible and effective procedure by which a woman can have established whether she qualifies for a legal abortion. || rowspan="2" {{Yes}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Nepal}} || ''Lakshmi v. Government of Nepal'' Supreme Court upheld and expanded legal abortion.<ref>[https://reproductiverights.org/nepal-supreme-court-abortion-is-a-right/ Nepal Supreme Court: Abortion Is a Right], 3 January 2011.</ref> |- ! scope="row" | 2011 | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United Kingdom}} || ''British Pregnancy Advisory Service v Secretary of State for Health''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/235.html |title = British Pregnancy Advisory Service v Secretary of State for Health [2011] EWHC 235 (Admin) (14 February 2011)}}</ref> || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2012 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Argentina}} || ''F., A. L.'' Abortion allowed in case of rape of any woman, regardless of her mental health.<ref>[http://www.saij.gob.ar/corte-suprema-justicianacion-federal-ciudad-autonoma-buenos-aires--medida-autosatisfactiva-fa12000021-2012-03-13/123456789-120-0002-1ots-eupmocsollaf F., A. L. s/medida autosatisfactiva], Supreme Court of Argentina, 13 March 2012 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> || rowspan="2" {{Yes}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Brazil}} || ''ADPF 54'' Abortion allowed in case of anencephaly.<ref>{{cite web|date=26 April 2013|title=INTERRUPÇÃO DA GRAVIDEZ|language=pt|trans-title=PREGNANCY INTERRUPTION|website=Supremo Tribunal Federal - Justice - Brazil|url=https://redir.stf.jus.br/paginadorpub/paginador.jsp?docTP=TP&docID=3707334|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627181409/https://redir.stf.jus.br/paginadorpub/paginador.jsp?docTP=TP&docID=3707334|archive-date=27 June 2014}}</ref> |- | {{flag|Council of Europe|without-e}} || ''P. and S. v. Poland''<ref>{{cite web|date=11 April 2013|title=P. and S. v. Poland|website=Center for Reproductive Rights|url=https://reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/PS_FS_4.13.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525223318/https://reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/PS_FS_4.13.pdf|archive-date=25 May 2013}}</ref> || |- ! scope="row" | 2013 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|El Salvador}} || Case of "Beatriz"<ref>{{cite web|date=28 May 2013|title=Sala de lo Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia|language=es|trans-title=Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice|website=Government of San Salvador|url=https://www.jurisprudencia.gob.sv/DocumentosBoveda/D/1/2010-2019/2013/05/A00CC.PDF|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128081506/https://www.jurisprudencia.gob.sv/DocumentosBoveda/D/1/2010-2019/2013/05/A00CC.PDF|archive-date=28 January 2021}}</ref> || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2014 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Bolivia}} || Ruling 0206/2014<ref>[https://buscador.tcpbolivia.bo/servicios/(S(qv23nk42hcz2wwthnuf5bqaj))/WfrMostrarResolucion.aspx?b=128890 Sentence 0206/2014], Plurinational Constitutional Court, 5 February 2014 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> || |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Ireland}} || ''P.P. v. Health Service Executive'' || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2015 | class="nowrap" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|Dominican Republic}} || Constitutional Court ruled law allowing abortion in certain cases unconstitutional.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://reproductiverights.org/dominican-republic-constitutional-court-repeals-abortion-law |title=Dominican Republic Constitutional Court Repeals Abortion Law |website=reproductiverights.org |date=12 April 2015}}</ref> || {{No|Law restricted}} |- | {{flag|Rwanda}} || class=nowrap | RPA 0787/15/HC/KIG<ref>{{cite web |title=jua_judgment_en, RPA 0787/15/HC/KIG |url=http://www.womenslinkworldwide.org/files/571deb06d7b4b_gjua_judgment_en.pdf |website=Women's Link Worldwide |date=30 October 2015 |access-date=7 August 2025 |language=en}}</ref> || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2016 | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt'' || {{Yes}} |- | {{flag|United Nations}} || ''Mellet v Ireland'' || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2017 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Chile}} || Constitutional Court ruled law allowing abortion in certain cases constitutional.<ref name=cl/> || {{Yes}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Croatia}} || Constitutional Court ruled law allowing abortion on demand constitutional.<ref>[https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2017_03_25_564.html Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia No. UI-60/1991 and others of 21 February 2017 and Separate opinion], ''Narodne novine'' {{in lang|hr}}.</ref> || {{Success|Legalization upheld}} |- ! scope="row" | 2018 | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United Kingdom}} || ''Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission v Department of Justice''<ref>{{cite web|date=7 June 2018|title=In the matter of an application by the NI Human Rights Commission for JR (NI) and Reference by the Court of Appeal in NI pursuant to Paragraph 33 of Schedule 10 to the NI Act 1998 (Abortion) (NI)|website=The Supreme Court (UKSC)|url-status=live |url=https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2017-0131-judgment.pdf|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142001/https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2017-0131-judgment.pdf}}</ref> || |- ! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2019 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|South Korea}} || Abortion allowed on request. Decision took effect in 2021.<ref name=kr/> || {{Yes}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Australia}} || ''Clubb v Edwards'' || |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Kenya}} || ''FIDA-Kenya and Others v. Attorney General and Others'' Abortion allowed in case of rape.<ref name=ke>[http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/175490 ''FIDA-Kenya and Others v. Attorney General and Others''], Kenyalaw.org, 12 June 2019.</ref> || {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2020 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Poland}} || K 1/20 Abortion in case of fetal deformity ruled unconstitutional. The decision was implemented on 27 January 2021.<ref name=pl2/> || {{No|Law restricted}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Thailand}} || Ruling No. 4/2563<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211110055712/https://www.constitutionalcourt.or.th/occ_en/download/BE2562_2019/2020/20_04_Constitutional%20Court%20Ruling.pdf Ruling No. 4/2563 (2020)], Constitutional Court of Thailand, 19 February B.E. 2563 (2020). Archived from [https://www.constitutionalcourt.or.th/occ_en/download/BE2562_2019/2020/20_04_Constitutional%20Court%20Ruling.pdf the original] on 10 November 2021.</ref> || |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Colombia}} || Constitutional Court ruled law allowing abortion in certain cases constitutional rejecting both total ban and legalization.<ref>[https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2020/C-088-20.htm Sentence C-088/20], Constitutional Court of Colombia, 2 March 2020 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> || {{Maybe|Law upheld}} |- ! scope="row" rowspan="8" | 2021 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Ecuador}} || Abortion allowed in case of rape of any woman, regardless of her mental health.<ref name=ec>[http://esacc.corteconstitucional.gob.ec/storage/api/v1/10_DWL_FL/e2NhcnBldGE6J3RyYW1pdGUnLCB1dWlkOidiZGE2NDE0YS1jNDI1LTQzMGMtYWViNi1jYjY0ODQ1YTQ2NWUucGRmJ30= Sentence No. 34-19-IN/21 and accumulated], Constitutional Court of Ecuador, 28 Abril 2021 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> || rowspan="5" {{Yes}} |- | rowspan="4" | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Mexico}} || Gestational limit for abortion in case of rape ruled unconstitutional. Ruling only granted relief to plaintiff, did not automatically invalidate law.<ref name=mx4/> |- | Criminalization of abortion in early part of pregnancy ruled unconstitutional. Ruling only invalidated law of Coahuila.<ref name=mx1/><ref name=mx2/> |- | Right to life from conception ruled unconstitutional. Ruling only invalidated article in constitution of Sinaloa.<ref>[https://www.internet2.scjn.gob.mx/red2/comunicados/noticia.asp?id=6581 Press Release No. 273/2021: SCJN invalidates provision of the Sinaloa Constitution that protected the right to life from conception and limited the right of women to reproductive autonomy], Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, 9 September 2021 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> |- | Conscientious objection to abortion without guaranteeing rights of others ruled unconstitutional. Ruling invalidated articles of federal law.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Manetto|first=Francesco|date=21 September 2021|title=La Suprema Corte invalida la objeción de conciencia médica e insta al Congreso a revisar la ley|trans-title=The Supreme Court invalidates medical conscientious objection and urges Congress to review the law|url=https://elpais.com/mexico/2021-09-21/la-suprema-corte-invalida-la-objecion-de-conciencia-medica-e-insta-al-congreso-a-revisar-la-ley.html|work=El País|language=es}}</ref><ref>[https://www.internet2.scjn.gob.mx/red2/comunicados/noticia.asp?id=6584 Press Release No. 276/2021: The SCJN invalidates the precept of the general health law that provided for conscious objection of medical and nursing personnel without establishing the necessary safeguards to guarantee the right to health], Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, 20 September 2021 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> |- | {{noflag|Inter-American Court of Human Rights}} || ''Manuela and Others v. El Salvador''<ref>[https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_441_esp.pdf ''Manuela and Others v. El Salvador''], Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 2 November 2021 {{in lang|es}}.</ref> || |- | rowspan="2" | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''United States v. Texas'' || rowspan="2" {{Failure|Restrictions upheld}} |- | ''Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson'' |- ! scope="row" rowspan="3" | 2022 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Colombia}} || Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation.<ref name=co2/> || {{yes}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in the|United States}} || ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization'' States may now ban or restrict abortion before viability, ''Roe v. Wade'' and ''Planned Parenthood v. Casey'' overturned. | {{Failure|Law restricted}} |- | {{flag+link|Abortion in|India}} || Abortion allowed under the same criteria regardless of marital status.<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-india-reproductive-rights-98a4c54d8badc725ec68ccc86642cc38 India's top court gives equal abortion access to all women], Associated Press, 29 September 2022.</ref> || rowspan="2" {{Yes}} |- ! scope="row" | 2023 | {{flag+link|Abortion in|Mexico}} || Criminalization of abortion in federal law ruled unconstitutional. Ruling only granted relief to plaintiff, did not automatically invalidate law.<ref name=mx3/> |} {{sticky table end}}

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