Sex, abortion and Obama

Sex Hormone Metabolism and Threatened Abortion

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in sex hormone metabolism in patients with threatened miscarriage. MATERIAL AND METHODS We recruited 73 women in early pregnancy (6-8 weeks of gestation) and divided them into the following 2 groups based on whether they had vaginal bleeding: group A (n=34), the threatened abortion group; and group B (n=39), the normal pregnancy group. Hu...

Sex ratios at birth after induced abortion.

BACKGROUND Skewed male:female ratios at birth have been observed among certain immigrant groups. Data on abortion practices that might help to explain these findings are lacking. METHODS We examined 1 220 933 births to women with up to 3 consecutive singleton live births between 1993 and 2012 in Ontario. Records of live births, and induced and spontaneous abortions were linked to Canadian imm...

Factors Affecting Sex-Selective Abortion In India

This NFHS Bulletin summarizes findings from India’s first and second National Family Health Surveys, conducted in 1992–93 and 1998–99, respectively, under the auspices of the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The surveys provide national and state-level estimates of fertility, infant and child mortality, family planning practice, maternal and child health, and the utilization of ser...

Culture or inequality in sex-selective abortion?

Constructing abortion as a social problem: “Sex selection” and the British abortion debate

Between February 2012 and March 2015, the claim that sex selection abortion was taking place in Britain and that action needed to be taken to stop it dominated debate in Britain about abortion. Situating an analysis in sociological and social psychological approaches to the construction of social problems, particularly those considering "feminised" re-framings of anti-abortion arguments, this p...