The U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional an Akron, Ohio, ordinance regulating abortions because it interfered with a woman's right to obtain an abortion. The ordinance required that all abortions after the first trimester of pregnancy be performed in a hospital, prohibited physicians from performing abortions on unmarried minors under the age of 15 without parental consent or a c...

Spontaneous abortions in hospitals were analysed from two sources-membership files of the Union of Rubber and Leather Workers (about 10000 women) and records of the personnel of a rubber factory (about 1600 women). Two frequencies of spontaneous abortions were calculated for each population analysed: rate (No spontaneous abortions x 100/No pregnancies) and ratio (No spontaneous abortions x 100/...

background: human leukocyte antigen-e (hla-e)is a non-classical major histocompatibility complex (mhc) class i antigens which expressed on extra villous cytotrophoblast, which interacts with nkg2a, is an inhibitory receptor on natural killer (nk) cells and leading to down regulation of immune response in the maternal-fetal interface and provides maternal immune tolerance of the fetus. objective...

A prospective study was carried out from November 2006 - December 2008 in which a total of 304 patients with early pregnancy were examined by ultrasound (US). Of these, 203 (66.8%) cases were normal pregnancies (including 8 cases of twin pregnancy), 32 (10.5%) missed abortions, 19 (6.3%) incomplete abortions, 14 (4.6%) complete abortions, 12 (4.0%) blighted ovums, 11 (3.6%) without sonographic ...

The United States (US) Supreme Court's decision to repeal Roe v. Wade has had significant implications for abortion care in the US, especially emergency care. This ruling may also have an impact on sub-Saharan Africa, where restrictive laws and policies limit women's access safe legal abortions. Sub-Saharan Africa is region with highest rate of unwanted pregnancies unsafe abortions, resulting 1...

This article presents the results of a mixed methods study of 68 legal abortion services in Brazil. The services were analyzed in two stages. The first stage was a census, in which all the institutions were sent an electronic questionnaire about the organization of the legal abortion services. The second stage was conducted in a sample of 5 reference services, one for each region of the country...

1. Abdella A. 1996. Demographic characteristics, socioeconomic profile and contraceptive behaviour in patients with abortion at Jimma Hospital, Ethiopia. East Afr Med J. Vol. 73(10): 660-664. • This is a hospital-based study of women admitted for post-abortion care (PAC) in 1992-1993. 53% of the cases were induced abortions (using the WHO definition of “definite induced”) while 47% were spontan...

CONTEXT A woman's ability to obtain an abortion is affected both by the availability of a provider and by access-related factors such as cost, convenience, gestational limits and the provision of early medical abortion services. METHODS In 2001-2002, The Alan Guttmacher Institute surveyed all known abortion providers in the United States, collecting information on their delivery of abortion s...