Abortion
Gynos to Erdoğan: ‘If you don’t want abortions, you need birth control’
President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan has expressed his opposition both to birth control, which he declared last week as âtreason,â and abortions, an act that he has famously branded a âmassacre,â in a similar vein to the killings of 34 villagers in Roboski three years ago.
Patients have no right to demand C-sections, says Turkish Health Minister
Highlighting once again the above-average number of Caesarean sections performed in the country, Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Müezzionoğlu has warned patient that they do not have the right to demand such operations.
"Demanding a natural birth is a natural right of the patient and this is the way it should be," Müezzinoğlu told a group of reporters in Parliament on Dec. 19.
Macedonia Abortion Rulebook 'Traumatises Women'
The new rulebook produced by the Health Ministry that instructs doctors how they should counsel those who are seeking an abortion looks more like a guide for applying psychological pressure on women to change their minds, medical professionals told BIRN.
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Croatia to Curb Doctors' Abortion Opt-Outs
Croatia's Health Ministry is to take action aginst a growing number of hospitals that do not offers abortions because doctors oppose them for reasons of conscience.
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Croatian Doctors Saying 'No' to Abortions
Media in Croatia have reported that one of the main hospitals in Zagreb, the Hospital of "Sveti Duh", ["Holy Spirit"] has stopped performing abortions even though terminations are within the law.
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Church of Greece supports IVF but not abortions
The Church of Greeces Holy Synod said Thursday that it supports couples having IVF treatment but is against mothers aborting their babies, regardless of whether the children have been diagnosed as having physical or mental problems.
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Macedonia Court Throws out Abortion Challenge
Macedonia's Constitutional Court has rejected a challenge to the changed law on terminations, adopted in September 2013, saying the changes do not prohibit abortion but only regulate the procedures.
Several NGOs had submitted complaints to the Constitutional Court, arguing that the new requirements put undue physical, administrative and time-related pressure on pregnant women.
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More abortions than births in Serbia
BELGRADE - Serbs are the oldest nation in Europe in terms of the average age of the population, and the statistical data indicate that women give birth to 1.4 children on average, while the average number of abortions is 2.8, the participants of a meeting entitled Protection of Motherhood in Serbia said on Wednesday.
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Montenegro Urged to Stop Gender-Selective Abortions
The Council of Europe's human rights commissioner Nils Muiznieks called on the Montenegrin authorities on Sunday to educate health professionals and adopt strict guidelines in order to prevent selective abortions.
According to the UN, some 100 girls are born for every 110 boys in Montenegro, while the usual ratio is 100 to 102-104.