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Criminalisation under scrutiny: how constitutional courts are changing their narrative by using public health evidence in abortion cases

Abstract:
Abstract This article explains how the strategic use of public health evidence, showing that criminalisation of abortion does not result in lower abortion rates, is changing the way judges are confronting constitutional challenges to abortion regulations. The state may have a legitimate interest – and in some legal systems, a duty – to protect prenatal life. Nevertheless, courts are upholding regulations liberalising abortion and declaring criminalisation regimes unconstitutional. This is possible given that lower abortion rates are not achieved through criminalisation, but through preventive policies. In addition, courts uphold liberalisation when the infringement of women’s rights resulting from criminalisation outweighs its purported benefits. This new legal narrative has been developed during the last decades by a series of court decisions in Europe and Latin America, and may prove useful for legal advocacy in some countries in Africa. The narrative combines the use of an analytical framework called the proportionality principle with an interpretation of constitutional rights that draws from gender-sensitive international human rights standards and factual evidence about the effects of criminalisation on women’s lives and health.
Author Listing: Verónica Undurraga
Volume: 27
Pages: 41 - 51
DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2019.1620552
Language: English
Journal: Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

影响因子:2.6
是否综述期刊:否
是否OA:是
是否预警:不在预警名单内
发行时间:-
ISSN:2641-0397
发刊频率:-
收录数据库:Scopus收录/DOAJ开放期刊
出版国家/地区:United Kingdom
出版社:Taylor & Francis

期刊介绍

年发文量 17
国人发稿量 -
国人发文占比 0%
自引率 3.8%
平均录取率 -
平均审稿周期 16 Weeks
版面费 -
偏重研究方向 Medicine-Obstetrics and Gynecology
期刊官网 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/zrhm21/current
投稿链接 -

质量指标占比

研究类文章占比 OA被引用占比 撤稿占比 出版后修正文章占比
94.12% 99.44% - -

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预警情况

时间 预警情况
2025年03月发布的2025版 不在预警名单中
2024年02月发布的2024版 不在预警名单中
2023年01月发布的2023版 不在预警名单中
2021年12月发布的2021版 不在预警名单中
2020年12月发布的2020版 不在预警名单中

JCR分区 WOS分区等级:Q2区

版本 按学科 分区
WOS期刊SCI分区
(2021-2022年最新版)
PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Q2

中科院分区

版本 大类学科 小类学科 Top期刊 综述期刊
医学
3区
PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生
2区
2021年12月
升级版
医学
3区
PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生
3区
2022年12月
最新升级版
医学
2区
PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生
2区