Maternal Abortifacient use for Clandestine Abortion

Infarction Following the Use of an Abortifacient

Infarction Following the Use of an Abortifacient

because it was thought that frequently repeated pregnancies were likely to endanger her health. Her doctor undertook to do the operation by using one of the abortifacient pastes (Aeratus), which he believed to be safe. After the preparation of the patient, the paste was injected very slowly between the membranes and the uterine wall. There was slight bleeding and suddenly the patient had a seve...

Harmonizing Methods for Estimating the Impact of Contraceptive Use on Unintended Pregnancy, Abortion, and Maternal Health

Estimates of the potential impacts of contraceptive use on averting unintended pregnancies, total and unsafe abortions, maternal deaths, and newborn, infant, and child deaths provide evidence of the value of investments in family planning programs and thus are critically important for policy makers, donors, and advocates alike. Several research teams have independently developed mathematical mo...

Clandestine abortion in Mexico: a question of mental as well as physical health.

This paper reports on research carried out in Mexico City in 1995-1996 on the meaning of motherhood, contraception, an unwanted pregnancy or child, and the experience of illegal, clandestine abortion, as described by 12 women of different ages, class, education and marital status who had one or more clandestine abortions. A priest, two doctors from the public health system, a group of gynaecolo...

Estimating clandestine abortion with the confidants method--results from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Data on abortion in sub-Saharan Africa are rare and non-representative. This study presents a new method to collect quantitative data on clandestine abortion, the confidants method, applied in 2001 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Preliminary qualitative work showed that individuals are aware of their close friends' induced abortions: women usually talk to their peers about the unintended pregnanc...