Abortion deaths.

Reproductive justice & preventable deaths: State funding, family planning, abortion, and infant mortality, US 1980–2010

INTRODUCTION Little current research examines associations between infant mortality and US states' funding for family planning services and for abortion, despite growing efforts to restrict reproductive rights and services and documented associations between unintended pregnancy and infant mortality. MATERIAL AND METHODS We obtained publicly available data on state-only public funding for fam...

Discoveries and dissimulations: the impact of abortion deaths on maternal mortality in British Columbia.

One of the most striking improvements in the health of Canadian women was brought about by the lowering of the risk of maternal mortality. Between the 1930s and 1960s the chances of dying in pregnancy fell from about 1 in 150 to 1 in 3,000. Maternal deaths, which in the early 1930s had accounted for 10 to 15 percent of all deaths among women in the child-bearing years, fell in three decades to ...

A risk reduction strategy to prevent maternal deaths associated with unsafe abortion.

INTRODUCTION Worldwide, 13% of maternal deaths are caused by complications of spontaneous or induced abortion, 29% in Uruguay and nearly half (48%) in the Pereira Rossell Hospital. PURPOSE This paper describes a risk reduction strategy for unsafe abortions in Montevideo, Uruguay, where over one-fourth of maternal deaths are caused by unsafe abortion. METHODS Although abortion is not legal i...

Deaths

Deaths associated with abortion compared to childbirth--a review of new and old data and the medical and legal implications.