{"id":282341,"date":"2017-09-29T14:09:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282341"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:09:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:09:34","slug":"abortion-not-accessible-to-many-armenian-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/09\/29\/abortion-not-accessible-to-many-armenian-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Not Accessible to Many Armenian Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By an Armenian Government decision from 2015, before undergoing an abortion, a woman is given a three-day period for consideration. According to experts in the sphere, this creates a wealth of problems particularly for women from rural communities and forces them to resort to abortions at home, Anush Poghosyan, a representative of the Women&#8217;s Resource Center NGO, said at a press conference in Yerevan on Thursday, September 28.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the existence of a law permitting abortion before the 12-week period, this procedure still remains inaccessible for many Armenian women, Poghosyan added: \u201cLast summer we organized a tour to Gegharkunik province. A woman told us that she had to go to a neighboring town to get an abortion because the procedure is not conducted in their village. There she was told to leave and return in 3 days. But because of heavy snow and blocked roads, she went back only in 2 weeks. She was told then that the term had already expired and that they could not carry out the abortion.\u201d According to the expert, the woman had to resort to a home abortion, \u201cwhich may lead to irreparable consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giving women a three-day period before the termination of pregnancy might, after all, be inexpedient, Violeta Zopunyan, chairman of the Center for Rights Development NGO, believes: \u201cIt would be advisable for the doctor to try to immediately find out whether the woman needed this period for making a final decision. If abortion is considered a woman&#8217;s right, it must be carried out without any preconditions. Women should not have to have any obstructions or difficulties when exercising their right.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to experts in the sphere, this creates a wealth of problems particularly for women from rural communities and forces them to resort to abortions at home&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66056,65974],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}