Miscarriage, even if biologically random, is not socially random. Willingness to abort reduces miscarriage risk. Because abortions are favorably selected among pregnant teens, those miscarrying are less favorably selected than those giving birth or aborting but more favorably selected than those giving birth. Therefore, using miscarriage as an instrument is biased towards a benign view of teen ...

Since the advent of C-banding as a routine diagnostic procedure, the significance of heterochromatic polymorphism has been questioned. Some workers have considered variations in heterochromatin in chromosomes 1 and 9 to be associated with fetal wastage, recurrent abortions, and abnormal phenotypes. Over a 15-month period, this laboratory made a study of the diagnostic significance of heterochro...

conclusions there was a strong relation between the presence of the studied m. hominis and u. urealyticum with urogenital infection in the females under study in comparison with those of control groups. the studied mollicutes were highly associated with habitual abortion in symptomatic females. the multiplex pcr was developed for simultaneous, early, and easy detection of these potential pathog...

Habitual abortion is associated with the altered expression of multiple genes. This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between expression of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and monocyte chemotactic protein 2 (MCP2 or CCL8) and habitual abortion. This was done by detecting and comparing their relative expression in peripheral blood and placental villi of patients and healthy ferti...

BACKGROUND Contraceptive counselling is an essential element of induced abortion services but concerns remain about its effectiveness. OBJECTIVE The issues that influence peri-abortion contraception were explored as part of a study on the experiences of women undergoing induced abortion. METHOD In-depth interviews with 21 women of varying ages, gestations and ethnicity, 3-9 weeks after term...