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 Nauru Abortion in Nauru Abortion in Nauru is only legal if the abortion will save the woman's life. In Nauru, if an abortion is induced for any other reason, the violator is subject to fourteen years' imprisonment. A woman who consents to her abortion or performs her own may be imprisoned for up to seven years. In 2016, a young African refugee in Nauru, identified in the courts only as "S99," was raped while semi-conscious during an epileptic seizure. S99 became pregnant from the rape and sought an abortion to terminate the pregnancy. Since the procedure is illegal in Nauru, even