At least one pregnancy in eight terminates in an abortion recognized as such and recalled by women when asked for a pregnancy history (McDonald, 1958; Warburton and Fraser, 1964). Some women have a greater tendency to abort than others (Warburton and Fraser, 1964) and a few abort repeatedly (Eastman and Hellman, 1961). Gross fetal malformation undoubtedly accounts for some spontaneous abortions...

CONTEXT National and state-level information about abortion incidence can help inform policies and programs intended to reduce levels of unintended pregnancy. METHODS In 2015-2016, all U.S. facilities known or expected to have provided abortion services in 2013 or 2014 were surveyed. Data on the number of abortions were combined with population data to estimate national and state-level aborti...

objective: approximately 15-20% of clinically recognizable pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion. the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities in those abortions is as high as 50%.a modest but clinically important proportion of spontaneous abortions is caused by a balanced chromosomal aberration in one of the parents. this results from the production of gametes and embryos with unbalanced chrom...

BACKGROUND Induced abortion has been legal in India on a broad range of medical and social grounds since 1980s. Often, induced abortion is resorted to as a means for contraception, and has a potential to be misused for sex selective feticide. We assessed the rates, trends, causes and determinants of induced abortions from 2008-12 in a rural community of northern India. METHODS Present study i...

Introduction: Every year 21.6 million women die due to unsafe abortions most of which are conducted unethically. Out of this 21.6 million women, 18.5 million women die alone in the developing countries and a further 47,000 women from complications of unsafe abortions each year. According to WHO, close to 13% of unsafe abortions is the main cause of all maternal deaths. (http://www.who.int/repro...

Henry Morgentaler was a physician who performed abortions, acted as a reproductive rights [4] activist, and advocated for legal access to abortions in Canada during the twentieth century. In 1969, he opened his first abortion [5] clinic in Canada and participated in the legal/court case of R v. Morgentaler (1988), which led Canada to decriminalize abortion [5]. Morgentaler helped establish lega...

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PROBLEM/CONDITION CDC began abortion surveillance in 1969 to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions. REPORTING PERIOD COVERED This report summarizes and describes data voluntarily reported to CDC regarding legal induced abortions obtained in the United States in 2004. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM For each year since 1969, CDC has compiled abortion data b...

OBJECTIVE To document the practices and attitudes of the US physician members of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) regarding adolescent abortion and contraception, as well as physician willingness to prescribe medical abortion if approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). DESIGN Cross-sectional questionnaire survey. Participants. The entire physician membership of SAM (N = 10...

are not distinguishable in physical appearance. The economy is mixed, cash income being derived from growing Arabica coffee and from wages brought back from Uganda by migrant workers. Serving this people at Murgwanza is a maternity clinic staffed by qualified African nurses, which is part of a larger hospital with resident European senior medical and nursing staff. Records are kept for each mat...