In Italy, Law 194 of 22 May 1978 provides for and regulates the voluntary termination of pregnancy (VTP). Medical abortion became popular nationwide after Mifepristone (RU-486) was authorized for the market by AIFA (Italian Drug Agency) in July 2009. We searched articles in medical literature database with these terms: "medical abortion", "RU486", "surgical abortion". We also searched laws and ...

INTRODUCTION Throughout Great Britain, increasing numbers of women having an early medical abortion are choosing to go home soon after administration of misoprostol, to expel the pregnancy at home (early medical discharge, EMD), rather than remain upon the hospital premises (day case). However, data are lacking on how this impacts upon an abortion service in terms of unscheduled re-attendance r...

Abortion is one of the most widely discussed medical-ethical subjects in medical, legal, philosophical, and religious literature as well lay press. There hardly a religion or country world that not currently concerned about this issue.[1] In Islam, abortion killing fetus womb by taking it out material spiritual intervention mother someone else. The child pregnant woman's from first day pregnanc...

Objective: To assess indications, methods of interventions and gestational age of women underwent therapeutic abortion. Method: A total of 1381 cases of pregnant women underwent therapeutic abortion with completed charts between 1 January, 2001 to 31 December, 2010, were enrolled in this study. The patient data including demographic data, gestational age of abortion, methods of abortion, dosage...

CONTEXT Since the late 1970s, the number of obstetrics and gynecology residency programs providing abortion training in the United States has steadily decreased. Given the documented shortage of abortion providers, assessing and ensuring the availability of abortion training in graduate medical education is critical. METHODS In 1998, the National Abortion Federation surveyed the 261 accredite...

BACKGROUND Letrozole is a third-generation selective aromatase inhibitor. Animal data suggested that it might be useful in medical abortion. We performed two pilot studies to assess the feasibility of using letrozole in combination with either mifepristone or misoprostol for termination of pregnancy up to 63 days. STUDY DESIGN We recruited 40 subjects who requested legal termination of pregna...

BACKGROUND Studies evaluating acceptability of simplified follow-up after medical abortion have focused on high-resource or urban settings where telephones, road connections, and modes of transport are available and where women have formal education. OBJECTIVE To investigate women's acceptability of home-assessment of abortion and whether acceptability of medical abortion differs by in-clinic...

In doing so, two aspects of Australian abortion law are highlighted: first, that abortion is a criminal offence; and second, that therefore Australian law denies women a right to abortion. The article dispels the myth that there exists 'abortion-on-demand' in Australia, and argues that any 'rights' that exist with respect to the practice of abortion are possessed and exercised by the medical pr...

OBJECTIVE To examine the uptake of long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods after abortion among women seeking abortions through a major Australian abortion provider. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study of women's post-abortion contraceptive choices, conducted at Marie Stopes International clinics across Australia between 1 September and 31 December 2012. PARTICIPANTS 7267 o...