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Legal Abortions in an Indian State
Studies in Family Planning, 1977Induced abortion in India was liberalized by the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, which became effective in April 1972. Analysis of 8,073 abortions performed in the state of Karnataka between April 1972 and March 1975 indicates that abortions have increased rapidly since legalization.
Rao Nb, Kanbargi R
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Legal Abortion in Eastern Europe
JAMA, 1961Legislation permitting abortion at the request of the pregnant woman, or on social indications, has been enacted since 1955 in most countries of Eastern Europe. By 1959, legal abortions had risen to one-tenth of the number of live births in Poland and to one-third each in Bulgaria (1958) and Czechoslovakia.
H. B., Christopher Tietze, Haus Lehfeld
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Public opinion and the legalization of abortion
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 1985Variation in Canadian public approval for legalized abortion was analyzed by bivariate and multivariate methods. 341 respondents from Edmonton Alberta answered a 6-point questionnaire in 1977. Results of the questionnaire indicated that 85-93% felt that abortion should be available to women for health or genetic reasons; 47-51% thought that abortion ...
James J. Creechan +2 more
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Legal abortion: a painful necessity
Social Science & Medicine, 2001This study was conducted to increase knowledge about the psychosocial background and current living conditions of Swedish women seeking abortion, along with their motives for abortion and their feelings towards pregnancy and abortion. Two hundred and eleven women answered a questionnaire when they consulted the gynaecologist for the first time.
Ann Lalos +3 more
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LEGALIZED ABORTION AND THE MURDER OF NEWBORNS
Psychological Reports, 2005The legalization of abortion in five states in 1970 and the rest of the American states in 1973 did not appear to result in a decline in the murder rate of babies.
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The Acceptance of Legalized Abortion
The Journal of Social Psychology, 1995Under this heading are brief reports of studies providing data that substantiate, disprove, or refine what we think we know. These Notes consist of a summary of the study's procedure and as many details about the results as space allows. Additional details concerning the results can be obtained by communicating directly with the author.
Christine Cregan Sensibaugh +1 more
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On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Monist, 19731 We will be concerned with both the moral status of abortion, which for our purposes we may define as the act that a woman performs in voluntarily terminating, or allowing another person to terminate, her pregnancy, and the legal status that is appropriate for this act. I will argue that, while it is not possible to produce a satisfactory defense of a
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PSYCHOLOGICAL FEMININITY AND LEGAL ABORTION
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1974Application for abortion may be regarded as an openly demonstrated rejection of motherhood and a sign of poor female identification. An attempt was made to test this hypothesis by means of an inventory measuring psychological feminity-masculinity applied to a group of 96 Swedish abortion applicants and a group of 32 pregnant women intending to deliver.
A. Palm, Lars Jacobsson
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Legal guidelines for the performance of abortions
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1975Abortion is a nationwide problem. This paper summarizes the original decisions of the Supreme Court and interprets those decisions and subsequent decisions of the various federal and state cases as they apply to physicians and hospitals. The legal duties, obligations, and responsibilities as well as the rights of health care providers in providing ...
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Epidemiology of Legal Abortion in Italy
International Journal of Epidemiology, 1986The paper reports on the trends of induced abortion in Italy since its legalization in 1978. Data collected through the national surveillance system show that the abortion rates and ratios in Italy, after an initial increase, have been stable in the last four years, and are comparable to those of other European countries. Italian women seeking abortion,
Irene Figà-Talamanca +2 more
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