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Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Tunisia, Where Abortion’s Been Legal Since 1973

After Tunisia’s independence in 1956, the first president Habib Bourguiba promulgated one of the most revolutionary family law codes in the Arab or Islamic world; “the Code of personal status”. This series of laws aspired to protect women, who were at the time the weak link in Tunisian society.  Considered a pioneering country when it […]