{
  "abstract": "This bulletin examines access to abortion across the world by focusing on who has decision-making authority and how authorisation takes place in practice. Our focus is on the practical ethical questions that arise after a law, court or other authority has determined that abortion may be available under specified conditions. We examine the factors that influence whether a pregnant person’s 1 informed request is treated as sufficient to proceed, or whether it is overridden, deferred or made conditional on approval from a spouse, parent, committee, clinic or individual healthcare provider.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, Singapore",
        "Biomedical Ethics, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Bunkyo, Japan"
      ],
      "name": "Shizuko Takahashi"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Philosophy, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica"
      ],
      "name": "Gabriela Arguedas Ramírez"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Northeastern University London, London, UK",
        "Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Hossein Dabbagh"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National University of Singapore, Singapore"
      ],
      "name": "Brian D Earp"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)"
      ],
      "name": "Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Xiamen University, Xiamen, China"
      ],
      "name": "Yonghui Ma"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Council of Science and Technology (CONICET), National Council on Science and Technology, Mexico City, Mexico",
        "Bioethics Program, FLACSO Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina"
      ],
      "name": "Ignacio Mastroleo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "University of Turku, Turku, Finland"
      ],
      "name": "Joona Räsänen"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Keisha Ray"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany"
      ],
      "name": "Sabine Salloch"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK",
        "University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe"
      ],
      "name": "Natalie Tegama"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Global Bioethics Bulletin: dispatches on access to abortion",
  "uid": "6136a101-2baa-575d-bdd0-577f3e9a0866"
}