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Table 2 Abortion legality status of Pacific Island countries

From: How do Pacific Island countries add up on contraception, abortion and reproductive coercion? Guidance from the Guttmacher report on investing in sexual and reproductive health

Country

Abortion legality category [11]

Prohibited altogether (no explicit legal exception)

To save life of woman

To save life of woman/preserve physical health

To save life of woman/preserve physical health/mental health

To save life of woman/preserve physical/mental health/ on socioeconomic grounds

No restriction as to reason (with gestational and other requirements)

FSM

✓

     

Fiji

    

✓

 

Kiribati

 

✓

    

Marshall Islands

✓

     

Nauru

   

✓

  

Palau

✓

     

Samoa

   

✓

  

Solomon Islands

 

✓

    

Tonga

✓

     

Tuvalu

 

✓

    

Vanuatu

  

✓