Abortion Rights in North Macedonia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17140/whoj.2025.v11.i01.pp01-03.2Keywords:
Laws; Abortion; Safe; Women’s sexual and reproductive rights; Healthcare servicesAbstract
Equitable access to safe abortion is part of the corpus of human rights. Providing women with access to safe abortion means
protection and realization of one of their fundamental human rights. However, around the world, even nowadays, women face
not only legal obstacles, but as well stigmatization and conviction against fulfillment of the right to abortion. In North Macedonia there a multiple type of barriers and large inequalities related to the accessibility and availability of reproductive healthcare
services. Women with low socio-economic status are mostly affected. The need for contraception has not been met and reproductive healthcare services are unevenly distributed across the country
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