In their paper “Exploring the Feasibility of Obtaining Mifepristone and Misoprostol from the Internet,” Murtagh and colleagues provide the first published examination of the availability of abortion medications shipped to United States addresses by unregulated online pharmacies [1]. Among 20 products received from 16 unique websites, all contained the labeled active ingredients, and 72% contain...

To identify genes that participate in the abortion process, normal pregnant uteri were compared to lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced abortion uteri. At day 6 of pregnancy, mice were treated with LPS at various time points to induce an abortion. Total RNAs were applied to a cDNA microarray to analyze genes with altered expression. At the early stage (2 hours) of LPS-induced abortion, upregulated ...

There are various ways to critically discuss abortion. Constructing or finding the most suitable analytical framework-whether rooted in legal formalism, socio-legal considerations, or comparativism-always depends on the country of subject and whether the analysis is for litigation, advocacy, or more theoretical purposes. This paper offers a model for analyzing abortion in Estonia in order to co...

Though California is recognized for protecting women’s right to choose today, this was not always the case. Abortion illegal in California, as it all other states late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; over time, however, witnessed a series of legal amendments cases that pressed on its nineteenth-century statute—culminating decriminalization abortion years before Roe v. Wade. This artic...

Toxoplasma gondii is an opportunistic intracellular parasite that is highly prevalent in human and warm-blooded animals throughout the world, leading to potentially severe congenital infections. Although the abortion caused by T. gondii is believed to be dependent on the timing of maternal infection during pregnancy, the mechanism remains unclear. This study was focused on the effects of T. gon...

Pregnancy is a significant event in a woman’s life, and emotional attachment to the pregnancy and developing baby may begin early in the first trimester. For most women, experiencing a first trimester loss is a difficult and vulnerable time. When it occurs, the grief can be as profound as for any perinatal or other major loss [1]. Spontaneous abortion (a pregnancy that ends spontaneously before...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(2) Background The review by Argent and Pavey1 in this issue of the Journal analyses the Abortion Act 1967 and subsequent case law and concludes that health professionals, not just registered medical practitioners, can legally perform surgical abortion under certain conditions. The health professionals should be suitably trained and be under the di...

BACKGROUND Community sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are well placed to deliver abortion assessment services and early medical abortion (EMA), but comparative data on safety and acceptability from both settings are important for future service planning. METHODS Retrospective review of computerised records of 1342 women undergoing outpatient EMA (≤9 weeks) in a community SRH or h...

BACKGROUND Nitric oxide plays a major role in increasing uterine blood flow during the luteal phase and early pregnancy. This study was done to compare uterine artery and sub-endometrial blood flow indices during the luteal phase between patients with unexplained recurrent abortion and fertile women and also to evaluate the effects of nitric oxide donors on blood flow indices in the abortion gr...

In the early summer of 2002, rumors began circulating on pro-life websites of a nationwide “sting” of reproductive health clinics. Conservative media attention swiftly focused on a report entitled “Child Predators: Exposing the Partnership Between Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and Men who Sexually Abuse Underage Girls.” The report claimed that clinics affiliated with Plan...