Is abortion legal in Barbados?
Legal (broad reasons)
Abortion is permitted on broad grounds including economic or social reasons.
Barbados is one of 16 countries classified “Legal (broad reasons)” for abortion — 7% of the 220 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Abortion law
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
Nearby countries
- Saint Lucia
- Legal (limited) Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Legal (broad reasons) Abortion is permitted on broad grounds including economic or social reasons.
- Grenada
- Legal (limited) Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
- Dominica
- Illegal (with exceptions) Abortion is prohibited except to save the pregnant person's life.
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Legal (limited) Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
- Montserrat
- Legal (limited) Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
Other laws in Barbados
- Suicide Laws
- Not a crime
A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.