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===Laws & Social Stigmas=== | ===Laws & Social Stigmas=== | ||
In Honduras, abortion is prohibited without exception.<ref>[https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/abortion-latin-america-and-caribbean Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean]</ref> | In Honduras, abortion is prohibited without exception.<ref>[https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/abortion-latin-america-and-caribbean Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean]</ref> However, this does not mean that women in Honduras do not receive abortions In fact, there is a large clandestine abortion network in Honduras, and it is reportedly common for people to procure medical abortion pills through underground networks. There is also an abortion hotline ("La Linea", or "the line" in English), which provides information on abortion services, and people can call this hotline anonymously. There are also anti-abortion hotlines that try to trick people into thinking they are calling pro-choice hotlines (which often advertise services in newspapers). It is estimated that there are about 50,000 to 80,000 clandestine abortions in Honduras per year, as of 2019. It is also important to understand that women die every year in Honduras due to complications from abortion procedures. The underground network of providers does have the regulations or professionalism of legal networks, so some women have abortions in unsafe conditions.<ref>[https://www.iwmf.org/reporting/the-informal-networks-resisting-hondurass-abortion-ban/ The informal networks resisting Honduras’s abortion ban]</ref> | ||
===What to Get & Where to Get It=== | ===What to Get & Where to Get It=== | ||