Legal regulation regarding artificial termination of pregnancy is a cause of many dilemmas. For this reason each country determines certain rules in its legislation depending on a specific social enviornment. Thus countries worldwide are divided into those that completely prohibit artificial abortion, those that allow it under certain circumstances and those that generally permit it.
In recent years tendencies for liberalisation and decriminalisation have appeared in Europe and worldwide, stressing the importance of sexual and reproductive rights of women. Countries have lengthened time periods in which abortion is legal and have added conditions for legal abortion to their legislation. These actions are combined with an ambition to make reproductive health services more effective and accessible. In order to further ensure this and partly due to COVID - 19, a step in the direction of modernising and digitalising health systems has been made. On the contrary some countries have imposed stricter legal terms under which abortion is allowed or have incriminated the procedure and imposed criminal sanctions on women and medical staff performing the procedure.
This master's degree is a comparative overview of the most current changes and proposals for changes in legal arrangements. First, it summarizes the common characteristics of various legal arrangements of artificial abortion. Furthermore, it describes specific national legal arrangements and their changes. It also focues on whether or nor the arrangements can be considered liberal or conservative and demonstrates the effect of COVID-19 on legal regulation of abortion and its effect on the enactment of telehealth and telemedicine. Ultimately, it presents trends for easier acces to abortion and proposes improvements for slovenian legal arrangements regarding artificial termination of pregnancy.
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