This article demonstrates that there is a right to abortion in international human rights law. Through systematic analysis of key documents from international human rights bodies, it establishes that international human rights law recognises that: (i) criminal regulation of abortion results in serious violations of human rights; (ii) making abortion available on request is the optimal approach to human rights compliant abortion regulation; (iii) states are obliged to remove barriers to abortion access in law and in practice; and (iv) ensuring both broad individual and general remedies for denials of access is consistent with a right to abortion
Londras et al. (Tue,) studied this question.