Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Illegal abortion in Mexico: client perceptions.
An exploratory study of the perceptions of 156 abortion clients in Mexico suggests that perceived quality of service was the main reason for choosing physicians while cost and anonymity were the major reasons for choosing nonphysicians. "Too young" was the most often cited reason for pregnancy termination, followed by economic situation and having too many children already. Cost was, on average...
متن کاملIllegal abortion as a public health problem.
BEFORE I DISCUSS illegal abortion as a disease of society, let us look at the definition of the word "disease." In the 22nd edition of the "American Illustrated Medical Dictionary," disease is defined as "any departure from the state of health, an illness or a sickness; most specifically, a definite morbid process having a characteristic train of symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of...
متن کاملWomen's stories of abortion in southern Gabon, Africa.
The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons women in rural, southern Gabon, Africa, chose to terminate their pregnancies, the methods used to induce abortions, and postabortion effects experienced by these women. Abortion is illegal in this country. A descriptive qualitative design guided the methodology for this study. Five women with a history of induced abortion were interviewed in-...
متن کاملThe biomedicalisation of illegal abortion: the double life of misoprostol in Brazil.
This paper examines the double life of misoprostol in Brazil, where it is illegally used by women as an abortifacient and legally used in obstetric hospital wards. Based on my doctoral and post-doctoral anthropological research on contraception and abortion in Salvador, Bahia, this paper initially traces the "conversion" of misoprostol from a drug to treat ulcers to a self-administered abortifa...
متن کاملNeonatal morbidity and outcome of live born premature babies after attempted illegal abortion with misoprostol.
UNLABELLED Misoprostol is a synthetic prostaglandin currently employed to induce labor. Association with illegal abortion has been reported; however, neonatal outcome and morbidity after a failed attempt of abortion has not been described. OBJECTIVES To report the association between misoprostol self-medication and preterm labor and to assess perinatal risk factors, morbidity and early outcom...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.333.7562.307