Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2021
This is the first in a projected series of periodic reports on international legal developments relating to reproductive health. It follows an introductory essay on abortion law developments in the industrialized world, which appeared in the Winter 1990 issue of Law, Medicine & Health Care. The major focus of this report is again abortion, the reproductive health issue with the highest international legal profile. Like its predecessor, it discusses the consequences of the withering away of Communism in Eastern Europe—in this case Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, and Poland—as well as the effects of major liberalization of abortion law in Belgium and Canada and the approval by France of use of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486.