Repeat abortions: blaming the victims.

Blaming tobacco's victims.

Blaming the victims of your own mistakes: How visual search accuracy influences evaluation of stimuli.

Even without explicit positive or negative reinforcement, experiences may influence preferences. According to the affective feedback in hypotheses testing account preferences are determined by the accuracy of hypotheses: correct hypotheses evoke positive affect, while incorrect ones evoke negative affect facilitating changes of hypotheses. Applying this to visual search, we suggest that accurat...

A need to expand our thinking about "repeat" abortions.

BACKGROUND Women who have more than one abortion are often the "targets" for social and clinical interventions geared at preventing "repeat abortions." Such an approach ignores the unique circumstances that may surround each abortion. STUDY DESIGN We qualitatively analyzed the history of 10 women who have had more than one abortion who were participating in a larger study of women's emotional...

Stop Blaming the Septum.

PURPOSE To identify if isolated surgical violation of the orbital septum predisposes to "middle lamellar" scarring and subsequent postblepharoplasty lower eyelid retraction. METHODS A retrospective review of patients who underwent transconjunctival blepharoplasty in either a postseptal (orbital septum undisturbed) or preseptal (septal incision required) plane was performed. Patients undergoin...

Peri-abortion contraceptive care: can we reduce the incidence of repeat abortions?

INTRODUCTION It is of great importance for repeat unwanted pregnancies to be prevented rather than aborted. We therefore sought to: determine the reasons for contraceptive failure in women seeking repeat abortions; audit the peri-abortion contraception services offered at our hospital, and make recommendations regarding peri-abortion contraception services based on the above findings. METHOD ...