BACKGROUND The long-term safety of surgical abortion in the first trimester is well established. Despite the increasing use of medical abortion (abortion by means of medication), limited information is available regarding the effects of this procedure on subsequent pregnancies. METHODS We identified all women living in Denmark who had undergone an abortion for nonmedical reasons between 1999 ...

Unsafe abortion's significant contribution to maternal mortality and morbidity was a critical factor leading to liberalization of Nepal's restrictive abortion law in 2002. Careful, comprehensive planning among a range of multisectoral stakeholders, led by Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population, enabled the country subsequently to introduce and scale up safe abortion services in a remarkably ...

The American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) promotes the health and wellness of women and girls in every aspect of their lives and believes that the decision whether or not to carry a child to term is a personal decision belonging solely to the woman. Thus, AMWA supports the appropriate use of legal, safe abortions and considers such procedures to be a part of comprehensive healthcare for w...

The availability of new medical techniques for induced abortion in the first trimester enables observation of the incidence and nature of embryonic and fetal abnormalities in early pregnancy. 506 women, presenting to the Liverpool (England) Women's Hospital in 1994-96 for induced abortion before 9 weeks of gestation, were given oral mifepristone followed by oral misoprostol. Fetal tissue was ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY There is growing interest in the UK towards increasing treatment options for women undergoing abortion and miscarriage. Such options include home medical treatment and surgery under local anaesthesia (LA). This study aimed to gauge views of women undergoing abortion and treatment for miscarriage at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh towards medical treatment at home, and s...

Medical abortion regimens have become widely used, but the frequency of infection after medical abortion is not well documented. This systematic review provides data on infectious complications after medical abortion. We searched Medline for articles written before July 2003 to determine the frequency of infection after medical abortion up to 26 weeks of gestation. We reviewed all articles and ...

BACKGROUND Although abortion is technically legal in Zambia, the reality is far more complicated. This study describes the process and results of galvanizing access to medical abortion where abortion has been legal for many years, but provision severely limited. It highlights the challenges and successes of scaling up abortion care using implementation science to document 2 years of implementat...

OBJECTIVE To compare medical abortion practised at home and in clinics in terms of effectiveness, safety and acceptability. METHODS A systematic search for randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies comparing home-based and clinic-based medical abortion was conducted. The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EMBASE, MEDLINE and Popline were searched. Failure to abo...