Fertility and legal abortions

Some experience in legal abortions.

Abortion has been mankind's most commonly used method of birth control. Today, both the social attitudes and medical practices are changing fast. New medical and smgical techniques are being developed for an easy and safe method tl) meet the increasing social demand for such a procedure. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 came to force irl India from 1st April 1972. From April, 1972...

Illegal births and legal abortions – the case of China

BACKGROUND China has a national policy regulating the number of children that a woman is allowed to have. The central concept at the individual level application is "illegal pregnancy". The purpose of this article is to describe and problematicize the concept of illegal pregnancy and its use in practice. METHODS Original texts and previous published and unpublished reports and statistics were...

Legal abortions in the unmarried women: social issues revisited.

OBJECTIVES To analyze the social factors influencing unmarried pregnancies in urban population. METHODOLOGY Observational study was conducted at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Chennai, from January 2006 to December 2010. Convenience sampling technique was used, and 115 subjects were interviewed using structured questionnaire. RESULTS 15.6 % of the subjects were <16 years of ag...

Surveillance of legal abortions in the United States, 1970.

Legal abortions, socioeconomic status, and measured intelligence in the United States.