background: recurrent abortion is defined as three or more consecutive pregnancy losses. we aimed to determine the relationship between male sperm parameters and hypo-osmotic swelling score and recurrent abortion. we also studied whether washing of spermatozoa and intrauterine insemination in patients with recurrent miscarriage and low score hypo-osmotic swelling test in male partners could imp...

INTRODUCTION Despite high access to contraceptive services, 42% of the women who seek an abortion in Sweden have a history of previous abortion(s). The reasons for this high repeat abortion rate remain obscure. The objective of this study was to study the choice of contraceptive method after abortion and related odds of repeat abortions within 3-4 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a retrosp...

BACKGROUND There has been continued interest in the extent to which women have positive and negative reactions to abortion. AIMS To document emotional reactions to abortion, and to examine the links between reactions to abortion and subsequent mental health outcomes. METHOD Data were gathered on the pregnancy and mental health history of a birth cohort of over 500 women studied to the age o...

BACKGROUND This study examined attitudes towards and knowledge about abortion among undergraduate students doing eleven different subjects. The differences in attitudes and knowledge about abortion according to gender, religious and political affiliation, religiosity, sexual orientation, number of sex partners and previous sexual experience were also considered. METHOD 1,025 undergraduate stu...

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread use of highly effective contraception in France, the incidence of abortion is high. A retrospective population-based cohort study was designed to analyse women's contraceptive history. METHOD We compared the contraceptive use of 163 women, whose last pregnancy ended in abortion, 6 months before, at the time of, 1 month and 6 months after the event with that o...

8 M a r c h 2 0 0 3 The Supreme Court did not “invent” legal abortion, much less abortion itself, when it handed down its historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Abortion, both legal and illegal, had long been part of life in America. Indeed, the legal status of abortion has passed through several distinct phases in American history. Generally permitted at the nation’s founding and for several d...

In this paper we analyze the changing relationship between childbearing and abortion in Ukraine, which has had one of the world’s highest abortion rates and lowest fertility rates. Using the 2007 Ukrainian Demographic and Health Survey, we examine changes in abortion before and after the dramatic fertility decline. We estimate event history models for first abortions as well as competing risks ...

Sir Dugald Baird sketches the history of abortion legislation in Great Britain from the beginning of the century. In his views the 1967 Abortion Act has been one of the most important and beneficial pieces of social legislation enacted in Britain in the last 100 years. It has, however, brought problems both of administration in the hospitals and to individual doctors and nurses, particularly wh...

Background and Objective: Pregnancy termination and recurrent abortion are one of the common complications during pregnancy and in patients with a bad obstetric history. Materials and Methods: In this study, a total of 154 individuals including 75 couples four single women from different communities and ...

background: maternal mortality ratio of pregnancy complications and childbirth is one of the most important indicator which represents development in countries. sometimes unpleasant and dangerous side effects is undeniable among mothers. undrestanding of abortion frequency can be a indirect criterion of maternal health in a community. this study aimed to assess abortion and some effective facto...