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Abortion on request has been legal in South Africa since 1997. The Choice in Termination of Pregnancy Act of South Africa 1996 allows abortion on request up to 20 weeks’ gestation. Since it was introduced, 40 000 legal abortions have been performed annually. A national study in 1994 on morbidity associated with incomplete abortion (illegally induced and spontaneous miscarriage) assisted the act...

Stigmatization is a deeply contextual, dynamic social process; stigma from abortion is the discrediting of individuals as a result of their association with abortion. Abortion stigma is under-researched and under-theorized, and the few existing studies focus only on women who have had abortions. We build on this work, drawing from the social science literature to describe three groups whom we p...

BACKGROUND There is inconsistent evidence as to whether work schedule (including rotating shifts and night work) can affect reproductive outcomes. METHODS We investigated the association between work schedule and risk of spontaneous abortion in U.S. nurses. The Nurses' Health Study II is a prospective cohort study established in 1989. In 2001, information about occupational activities and exp...

BACKGROUND Some studies have found an association between spontaneous abortion and adverse birth outcome in the subsequent pregnancy, but results are conflicting, maybe due to lack of confounder control. METHODS Using population-based registries we identified a cohort of 45 449 women having a livebirth preceded by a spontaneous abortion ('abortion cohort'), and a random sample of 9752 women w...

background: this case-control study was designed with the aim of evaluating the role of sperm, oxidative stress and dna damage in idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss (irpl). this pilot study is the first study done on the indian population which reports the association between dfi, tac and ros in couples experiencing irsa. methods: twenty infertile men with a history of irpl and 20 fertile cont...