CONTEXT The incidence of abortion has declined nearly every year between 1990 and 2005, but this trend may be ending, or at least leveling off. Access to abortion services is a critical issue, particularly since the number of abortion providers has been falling for the last three decades. METHODS In 2009 and 2010, all facilities known or expected to have provided abortion services in 2007 and...

Guttmacher Institute/IUSSP The primary objective of this chapter is to encourage and facilitate researchers in finding ways to make and publish national-level estimates of unsafe abortion where such estimates are currently unavailable. Knowing the magnitude of unsafe abortion in a given country facilitates an informed discussion on the abortion issue and on improving women’s reproductive health...

BACKGROUND There is limited reliable information on abortion in Iran, where abortion is illegal and many women of reproductive age seek clandestine abortion to end their unintended pregnancy. This study aims to examine the determinants of induced abortion in the city of Hamedan, Iran. METHODS The study utilizes recent data from the 2015 Hamedan Survey of Fertility, conducted in a representati...

Although Cambodia now permits elective abortion, scarcity of research on this topic means that information on abortion incidence is limited to regional estimates. This estimation model combines national survey data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) with national prospective data of abortion procedures from government health facilities, collected in 2005 and 2010, to calculate the nation...

BACKGROUND In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the penal code prohibits the provision of abortion. In practice, however, it is widely accepted that the procedure can be performed to save the life of a pregnant woman. Although abortion is highly restricted, anecdotal evidence indicates that women often resort to clandestine abortions, many of which are unsafe. However, to date, there are no off...

this study has been conducted on the path reports of diagnostic curettage carried out in mirza koochek-khan hospital during the 6 months of the year 1989 (april to september). the reports examined have been further classified into incompelete abortion, diagnostic currettage and others. a total number of 645 women have had d&c; according to the above criteria. in this period of time, incomplete ...

OBJECTIVES This project aims to answer a critically important question of public policy: Does effective child support enforcement lead to a change in the incidence of abortion across the United States? METHODS Using state-level data collected from 1978–2003 from a variety of sources, we employ fixed effects regression analysis to examine whether financial security as measured by five types of...

Unsafe abortion is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality. Uterine perforation has been observed to be one of main complications of surgical abortion. In 2012, for example, there were 19 uterine perforations in 100,851 induced abortions at less than 12 weeks of pregnancy (18.0 per 100,000) in Japan [1]. To date, some reviews and case reports had been reported concerning the presence of...