Abortion which midwives usually worked were relatively safe. In addition, some commentators have written that, despite improved medical procedures, the period from the 1930s until legalization also saw more zealous enforcement of anti-abortion laws, and concomitantly an increasing control of abortion providers by organized crime. Soviet Russia (1919), Iceland (1935) and Sweden (1938) were among the first countries to legalize certain or all forms of abortion. In 1935 Nazi Germany, a law was passed permitting abortions for those deemed "hereditarily ill", while women considered of German stock were specifically prohibited from having abortions. Beginning in the second half of the twentieth
Abortion in Brazil also authorized the practice of abortion on fetuses with anencephaly. On November 29, 2016 the Supreme Court in Brazil ruled that "abortion should not be a crime when performed in the first three months of pregnancy". This ruling could potentially set a new precedent on law surrounding abortion in Brazil. It is very controversial, due to the fact that the Brazilian Government just passed a bill, earlier in 2016, which aimed to make Brazilian law on abortion even stricter. The number of clandestine abortions taking place in Brazil is a very controversial subject which divides pro-life and pro-choice activists. A