Abortion laws and women’s health

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Review of abortion laws.

a major problem when my generation of GPs retires and IUD fitters will not be replaced. Surely the role of the Faculty should be to increase and encourage training, rather than to stick to rigid and outdated requirements? The present LoC IUT allows a doctor to fit any device once they have completed seven insertions. This means that they could fit six Mirenas and one Flexi-T® and then be deemed...

Permissive abortion laws, religion, and moral compromise.

Article: In the 1984 elections in the United States some of the candidates were criticized for advocating public policies that conflicted with the teachings of their churches. Chief among such targets of this criticism were Catholics, such as Geraldine Ferraro and Mario Cuomo, who defended permissive abortion laws while maintaining that in private they regard abortion as morally wrong. The purp...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality