Donohue and Levitt (2001) suggest there is a causal link between legalized abortion and reductions in crime almost two decades later when the cohorts exposed to legalized abortion reach their peak crime years. Joyce (2003) examines crime committed in the period 1985–90 for the cohorts born immediately before and after abortion legalization. He Ž nds little impact of legalized abortion. In this ...

Adolescents and young women in Mozambique experience high levels of unintended pregnancies, with induced abortion being a common outcome. Stigma gender norms are likely to negatively impact experiences pregnancy abortion, hamper access information services. We assessed knowledge, attitudes, practices, around six communities Nampula Zambézia provinces. conducted 19 triad interviews girls, focus ...

Background and methodology This survey was undertaken to obtain the opinions of women in the UK about their home management of early medical abortion (EMA) with mifepristone and misoprostol. All eligible women undergoing EMA at any BPAS clinic during a 2-week period were invited to participate. Women were contacted by telephone 1 week after the EMA and a fiveitem structured questionnaire was ad...

Volume 31, Number 1, January/February 1999 termination using methotrexate started to appear in both the medical and popular literature.3 Interest in this method grew rapidly within the community of abortion providers. In spring 1996, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) devoted its annual postgraduate symposium to medical abortion, including both mifepristone and methotrexate, and the Planned...

In this study women’s perceived health status and self-reported health problems has been examined according to the number of pregnancies, gestational stage of abortion, and number of abortions among the rural women of Haryana, India by analyzing data from an in-depth interview of 329 ever-married women conducted in five villages of Haryana state of India during the year 2003. From our study, it...

September 29, 2010, marks the 10th anniversary of Food and Drug Administration's approval of Mifeprex (mifepristone) in the United States. That moment 10 years ago brought women the promise of increased access to early, safe, noninvasive abortion and the potential mainstreaming of abortion services into the larger scope of routine comprehensive women's health care [1,2]. The arduous 12-year pat...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Since 1969, CDC has conducted abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions in the United States. REPORTING PERIOD COVERED 2010. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies of 52 reporting areas (the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City). The rep...