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• 2 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Dec. 16, 1966, 993 U.N.T.S. 3, (entered into force Jan. 3, 1976).
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• 7 U.N. Comm. on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation No. 24: Women and Health, UN Doc. A/54/38/Rev.1 at paras. 11, 14, 23 (1999)

8 Supra note 6.

• 9 See e.g. Chelsea Morroni, Landon Myer & Kemilembe Tibazarwa. “Knowledge of the abortion legislation among South African women: a cross-sectional study” (2006) 3 Reproductive Health 7; Lisa A. Goldman, Sandra G. García, Juan Díaz & Eileen A Yam, “Brazilian obstetrician-gynecologists and abortion: a survey of knowledge, opinions and practices” (2005) 2 Reproductive Health 10; Davida Becker, Sandra G. Garcia & Ulla Larsen “Knowledge and Opinions about Abortion Law among Mexican Youth” (2002) 28(4) International Family Planning Perspectives 205-213; Kirti Iyengar & Sharad Iyengar. “Elective abortion as a primary health service in rural India: experience with manual vacuum aspiration.” (2002) 10(19) Reproductive Health Matters 54-63.
• 10 See Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee: Argentina, HRC, UN Doc. CCPR/CO/70/ARG (2000): “[T]he Committee is concerned that the criminalization of abortion deters medical professionals from providing this procedure without judicial order, even when they are permitted to do so by law” (para. 14); Grimes, supra note 3 at 1913.
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• 12 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966, GA Res. 2200A (XX1), art. 19.
• 13 Bigelow v. Virginia, 421 U.S. 809 (1975).
• 14 Marge Berer. “National Laws and Unsafe Abortion: The Parameters of Change” (2004) 12 (24 Supp) Reproductive Health Matters 1–8, 5.
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• 16 See Mike Benigeri & Pierre Pluye, “Shortcomings of health information on the Internet” (2003) 18 Health Promotion International 381. Article analyzes the rising number of Internet sites providing medical information and services and the lack of available assistance in sorting through this information. See also: Berland et al., “Health Information on the Internet: Accessibility, Quality and Readability in English and Spanish” (2001) 285 JAMA 2612.
• 17 Uruguay, Ministry of Public Health, Order/Ordenanza 369/04, 6 de agosto del ano 2004.
• 18 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Abortion Policies 2007. (New York, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2007).
• 19 Reed Boland and Laura Katzive. “Developments in Laws on Induced Abortion:1998–2007” (2008) 34(3) International Family Planning Perspectives 110–120, 110.
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• 26 Grimes, supra note 3 at 1913; See also: G. Sedgh et al. “Induced abortion: estimated rates and trends worldwide” (2007) 370 The Lancet 1338-1345.