BACKGROUND Post-abortion contraceptive use in India is low and the use of modern methods of contraception is rare, especially in rural areas. This study primarily compares contraceptive use among women whose abortion outcome was assessed in-clinic with women who assessed their abortion outcome at home, in a low-resource, primary health care setting. Moreover, it investigates how background char...

Nepal is often heralded as a model of the successful implementation and rapid scale-up of safe abortion services. Prior to 2002, Nepal had very restrictive abortion laws that prosecuted and imprisoned women and their family members for undergoing pregnancy terminations. Up to one-fifth of incarcerated women were convicted for abortion-related crimes.2 Despite the restrictive laws and legal impl...

In the spring of 1993, tens of thousands of US medical students received an offensive pamphlet in their mailboxes with the following “joke”: “Q: What would you do if you were in a room with Hitler, Mussolini and an abortionist and you had a gun with only two bullets? A: Shoot the abortionist twice.” Ironically, this mailing was the single most influential factor leading to the creation of Medic...

Objectives: Abortion can be stressful for the family and may lead to psychological problems. The question arises whether religious attitudes restructured into women who experience induced spontaneous abortions. In this regard, present study aimed investigate relationship of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after therapeutic abortion (Induced spontaneous) with mother’s spiritual experiences...

OBJECTIVES Compare proportion lost to follow-up, successful abortion, and staff effort in women who choose office or telephone-based follow-up evaluation for medical abortion at a teaching institution. STUDY DESIGN We performed a chart review of all medical abortions provided in the first three years of service provision. Women receiving mifepristone and misoprostol could choose office follow...