{"id":749,"date":"2012-11-30T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-03-13T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T05:27:43","slug":"abortion-in-asia-local-dilemmas-global-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/abortion-in-asia-local-dilemmas-global-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"ABORTION IN ASIA: Local Dilemmas, Global Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ABORTION-IN-ASIA.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"750\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/abortion-in-asia-local-dilemmas-global-politics\/abortion-in-asia\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ABORTION-IN-ASIA.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,290\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ABORTION IN ASIA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ABORTION-IN-ASIA.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ABORTION-IN-ASIA.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-750\" title=\"ABORTION IN ASIA\" src=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ABORTION-IN-ASIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>Abortion in Asia: Local Dilemmas and Global Politics promises to be a great resource on abortion across South and South East Asia.\u00a0ASAP is proud to announce that two of its steering committee members Phan Bich Thuy (Concept Foundation, Vietnam) and Ninuk Widyantoro (Women Health Foundation, Indonesia) have contributed chapters to this book.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Please find the details below.\u00a0To order use this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001OLICUR0unG6SrUkuCY0gDae4DQjYHmhkXOnBQehu7-waqDL6IxwdWmx7JjWXXdBSDVM0ZgtPoTLIAc_0VEsXFvKsrDrqp5DBuezG1oW5sPi7LL4rAJ3RtwHVK0bDxD0wArMX_bx0E9-OWq8I8LbuNWytxAXJJB1ZOLr5troOmYQ=\">http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=WhittakerAbortion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABORTION IN ASIA:\u00a0<\/strong>Local Dilemmas, Global Politics<br \/>\n<strong><em>Edited by Andrea Whittaker (Berghahn Books, 2010)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 1:<\/strong> Abortion in Asia: an overview<br \/>\n<em>Andrea Whittaker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 2:<\/strong> Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia<br \/>\n<em>Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy and Phirun Lam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 3:<\/strong> Between remembering and forgetting: Post-diagnostic abortions in Hanoi, Vietnam<br \/>\n<em>Tine M. Gammeltoft<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 4:<\/strong> Violence, Poverty and &#8216;Weakness&#8217;- Interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion<br \/>\n<em>Suzanne Belton<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 5:<\/strong> Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh<br \/>\n<em>Sabina Faiz Rashid<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 6:<\/strong> Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu: Balancing costs and quality of care<br \/>\n<em>Lakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J Pelto<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 7:<\/strong> Abortion in Vietnam: History, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moi<br \/>\n<em>Merrill Wolf, <\/em><em>Phan Bich Thuy<\/em><em>, Alyson Hyman and Amanda Huber<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 8:<\/strong> Abortion and politics in Indonesia<br \/>\n<em>Terence H Hull and <\/em><em>Ninuk Widyantoro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 9:<\/strong> Barriers to access to abortion services in Malaysia: Misinformation and stigma<br \/>\n<em>Rashidah Abdullah and Yut-Lin Wong<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 10:<\/strong> Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand: An analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006<br \/>\n<em>Nongluk Boonthai, Sripen Tantivess, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and Kamheang Chaturachinda<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 11:<\/strong> Epilogue: Further challenges<br \/>\n<em>Andrea Whittaker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion in Asia: Local Dilemmas and Global Politics promises to be a great resource on abortion across South and South East Asia.\u00a0ASAP is proud to announce that two of its steering committee members Phan Bich Thuy (Concept Foundation, Vietnam) and Ninuk Widyantoro (Women Health Foundation, Indonesia) have contributed chapters to this book.\u00a0 Please find the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-abortion-in-asia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blog-featured-image-logo.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O7nG-c5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}