HI-TECH ABORTION: A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines unsafe abortion as a procedure for terminating a pregnancy that is performed by an individual lacking the necessary skills. An estimated 50 million abortions are carried out throughout the world every year (including 19-20 million abortions that are done by individuals without the requisite skills). There are many different reasons (e.g. small number of specialists or large distance to medical center) when the patient during this procedure can’t receive medical care ‘face to face’. High technologies abortion is one of the ideas to solve this problem. In June of 2008 Planned Parenthood of the Heartland first began offering pharmacological abortions via telemedicine in Iowa. This article carries out a comparative analysis of legal regulations of the United States of America and chosen countries of the European Union (esp. Poland and France) in the context of ‘hi-tech abortion’. The aim of this article is to examine: a) general regulations on abortion in circled jurisdictions b) the legal admissibility of medical abortion at a distance.