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Article
Berro Pizzarossa, L, Coast, E, Kareithi, W & Duffy, D 2025, '‘[E] ven in our fear […] we wanted to do this’: feminist organising for abortion in Africa as palimpsestic', Culture, Health and Sexuality.
Bornstein, M, Young, YY, Pizzarossa, LB, Cohen, MJ & Maina, J 2023, 'Documenting activism and advocacy around medication abortion in Central, East, and West Africa', African Journal of Reproductive Health, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 84-94. https://doi.org/10.29063/ajrh2023/v27i1.8
Pizzarossa, LB, Maziwisa, M & Durojaye, E 2023, 'Self-Managed Abortion in Africa: The Decriminalization Imperative in Regional Human Rights Standards', Health and Human Rights, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 171-183. <https://www.hhrjournal.org/2023/05/14/self-managed-abortion-in-africa-the-decriminalization-imperative-in-regional-human-rights-standards/>
Shochet, T, Berro Pizzarossa, L, Larrea, S, Blum, J, Jelinska, K, Comendant, R & Sagaidac, I 2023, 'Self-managed abortion via the internet: Analysis of one year of service delivery data from Women Help Women', Gates Open Research, vol. 7, 41. https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.14369.1
Nandagiri, R & Berro Pizzarossa, L 2023, 'Transgressing biomedical and legal boundaries: The “enticing and hazardous” challenges and promises of a Self-Managed Abortion multiverse', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 100, 102799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102799
Tiew, A, Berro Pizzarossa, L, Jastaniah, I & Jayaweera, RT 2022, 'The impact of COVID-19 on safe abortion access in Africa: An analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence', Frontiers in Global Women's Health, vol. 3, 958710. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.958710
Berro Pizzarossa, L 2018, 'Legal barriers to access abortion services through a human rights lens: the Uruguayan experience', Reproductive health matters, vol. 26, no. 52, 1422664. https://doi.org/10.1080/09688080.2017.1422664
Chapter
Pizzarossa, LB, Hervey, T & de Ruijter, A 2023, Abortion law in Europe: The promise and pitfalls of human rights and transnational trade law in the face of criminalization with exceptions. in M Ziegler (ed.), Research Handbook on International Abortion Law. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 374-393. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108150.00031
Berro Pizzarossa, L 2023, Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Istanbul Convention: an unfulfilled promise in the context of global backlash. in S De Vido & M Frulli (eds), Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence: A Commentary on the Istanbul Convention. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 888-902. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107757.ch93
Pizzarossa, LB, Constantin, A & Giudice, L 2022, The David and Goliath tale of Uruguay’s tobacco control measures: Lessons for the region and beyond. in E Durojaye & L Murungi (eds), International Human Rights Law and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Lessons from Africa and Beyond. Taylor and Francis, pp. 245-271. <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003264248/international-human-rights-law-framework-convention-tobacco-control-ebenezer-durojaye-lucyline-murungi>
López-Gómez, A, Couto, M & Pizzarossa, LB 2021, "Push and pull": The rocky road to the legalization of abortion in Uruguay. in Abortion and Democracy: Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. 1 edn, Taylor and Francis, pp. 117-135. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003079903-6
Comment/debate
Yanow, S, Pizzarossa, LB & Jelinska, K 2021, 'Self-managed abortion: Exploring synergies between institutional medical systems and autonomous health movements', Contraception, vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 219-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2021.06.006
Berro Pizzarossa, L & Nandagiri, R 2021, 'Self-managed abortion: a constellation of actors, a cacophony of laws?', Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 23-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2021.1899764
Review article
Coast, E, Nandagiri, R, Atay, H, Ganatra, B, Johnson, H, Alhassan, N, Banke-Thomas, A & Berro Pizzarossa, L 2025, 'Abortion and well-being: A narrative literature review', SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, vol. 7, 100508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100508
Pizzarossa, LB & Skuster, P 2021, 'Toward Human Rights and Evidence-Based Legal Frameworks for (Self-Managed) Abortion: A Review of the Last Decade of Legal Reform', Health and Human Rights, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 199-212. <https://www.hhrjournal.org/2021/06/16/toward-human-rights-and-evidence-based-legal-frameworks-for-self-managed-abortion-a-review-of-the-last-decade-of-legal-reform/>
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