Abortion in Armenia is legal on request up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, and in special circumstances between 12 weeks and 22 weeks.[1] Abortion has been legal since November 23, 1955, when Armenia was a republic of the Soviet Union.[2][3] Pregnancies may be ended on request by the mother until the twelfth week and for medical and social reasons until the twenty-second week with a doctor's approval.[4] Since 2016, when a law banning sex-selective abortion was passed, mandatory counseling is required before abortion along with a 3-day waiting period. The law has been criticized as using sex-selective abortion as a pretext to restrict access to abortion, although the government denied this, and claimed that it did not intend to question women's right to access safe abortion.[5]