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 58% of the population expressed opposition. A survey made in Ribeirão Preto (SP) has shown that 70% of the Brazilian doctors do not support the decriminalization of abortion in the country. 77% also rejects the idea that abortion should be carried out simply because of the woman's desire. 82.5% of the Brazilian doctors also reject the legalization of abortion due to socioeconomic difficulties. In case of a possible legalization, only 17.5% of them would agree to carry it out professionally. In March 2009, after an abortion on a nine-year-old girl raped by her stepfather and pregnant with twins had been