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Estimating the number of illegal abortions
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1977SummaryThis article considers the methods used to estimate the number of abortions before the 1967 Abortion Act came into operation. It suggests that the registration of legal abortions has enabled a new method to be used to calculate the number of illegal operations. The article concludes that the major effect of the Act was to transfer abortions from
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Why Abortion is Illegal? Comparison of Legal and Illegal Abortion: A Critical Review.
Mymensingh medical journal : MMJ, 2019Abortion is the termination of pregnancy that occurs spontaneously or purposely. In the most developed world, abortion is legally allowed for women seeking safe termination of pregnancies. Particularly, when access to legal abortion is restricted, abortion is the resort to unsafe methods.
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Sanctions for Performing Illegal Abortions
Soviet Law and Government, 1978Criminal sanctions for performing illegal abortions are provided for in Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. Abortion means artificial interruption of pregnancy at any stage. An abortion is regarded as illegal if performed in violation of specified conditions.
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Motherhood, Citizenship, and Rights: Illegal Abortions in Turkey
Women's Studies, 2019In many places, abortion has long been an issue at the heart of women’s movements and feminist politics.
O'Neil, Mary Lou, Komut, Sultan
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Induced Illegal Abortions in Benin City, Nigeria
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1976Abortions of all types constitute about 25% of our gynaecological admissions. In 8 months period between July 1974 and February 1975, 59 patients admitted into our unit with confirmed illegally induced abortions were studied personally by the author. It was found that most patients with this type of abortion were single, young schoolgirls.
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Illegal Operations: Women, Doctors, and Abortion, 1886-1939
Journal of Social History, 1993In Canada a social historian from the University of Victoria uses legal records from inquests and trials of 100 women who tried to induce a miscarriage to examine the decision-making process of women who chose to terminate a pregnancy in the late 1800s and early 1900s in British Columbia.
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[Illegal abortion with misoprostol in Guadeloupe].
Journal de gynecologie, obstetrique et biologie de la reproduction, 2013The aim of this study was to describe the typical profile, and to assess the motivations of women who underwent illegal abortion with misoprostol in Guadeloupe (French West Indies).We conducted a 1-year prospective study on women who consulted after failure or complication of an illegal abortion with misoprostol.Fifty-two cases of illegal abortion with
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"Estimates of Illegal Abortions in Israel, 1980-83"
Studies in Family Planning, 1990Since the legalization of abortion in Israel in the late 1970s, only aggregate information on legal abortions has been available. A brief history of the public debate and relevant legislation concerning induced abortions in Israel is presented in the first part of this report.
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[Uterine perforation after an illegal abortion].
Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial, 2000This study focuses on problems related to the management of peritonitis following non-medically assisted abortions in developing countries. Between January 1, 1997 and December 31, 1998, four cases of peritonitis due to perforation of the uterus occurred in a consecutive series of 101 women treated following non-medically assisted abortions at the ...
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