In most countries, women do not have access to legal abortion care: abortion is legal in only 28 percent of all countries in the world and only 15 percent of countries in the developing world (WHO 2011). And even in countries with legal abortion, many women are unable to access a safe procedure, for myriad reasons, including a lack of knowledge about the legal status of abortion, lack of money to pay for the procedure, social stigma against abortion or, commonly, because they present for care too far along in pregnancy. ANSIRH's Global Turnaway Study team partnered with researchers in Bangladesh, Colombia, Nepal, South Africa and Tunisia to investigate why women are denied legal abortion services and the consequences of denial.[-]