Human Rights- ­Components of State’s related issues Obligations Unsafe Abort­ion and Post-­­ Abort­ion Care 50 Assessing compliance • States should take steps to ensure access to special care and assistance during pregnancy and for a period following childbirth. • States collect, analyse, and disseminate disaggregated data necessary to evaluating and responding to primary causes—both direct and indirect—of maternal mortality and morbidity. • What steps has the State taken to combat early or unwanted pregnancy by ensuring access to comprehensive sexuality education and access to contraceptive information and services, including for adolescents? • What mechanisms are in place to ensure accountability where there have been failures to ensure the right to a safe and healthy pregnancy? • States should take steps to reduce the number of unsafe abortions and the attendant risks to women’s and girl’s health and lives. • States should take steps to ensure access to post-abortion care for all women and girls free from discrimination, violence or coercion. • To what extent has the State developed and implemented measures to reduce the risks of unsafe or clandestine abortions? • To what extent has the State allocated adequate budgetary, human, and administrative resources to the implementation of such strategies or plans? • To what extent has the State eliminated or refrained from imposing restrictions on access to abortion services, where these are legal, such as laws requiring third-party authorization (e.g., parental, spousal, or judicial) to access abortion services?