The demand for abortion and the incidence of unsafe are still very high. About 45% all abortions worldwide abortions. Unsafe is a public health problem one causes maternal morbidity mortality. In this article, we report 2 cases uterine perforation after provocation or induced due to unwanted pregnancy. diagnosis was established by clinical suspicion exploratory laparotomy. Many factors affect a...

Limited access to modern contraceptives in populations that desire smaller families can lead to repeat unintended pregnancy and repeat abortions. We conducted an analysis of the medical records of 1,200 women seeking abortion-related services in public and private facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from October 2008 to February 2009. We examined the characteristics of initial and repeat aborti...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To ascertain, from the published reports to date, whether or not a significantly increased risk of breast cancer is specifically attributable to a history of induced abortion, independent of spontaneous abortion and age at first full term pregnancy (or first live birth); to establish the relative magnitude of such risk increase as may be found, and to ascertain and quantify such...

Women who had pre-term birth in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, over a two and a half year period were studied. The aim was to establish the factors influencing the incidence of pre-term birth in Calabar. Factors which significantly increase the incidence of pre-term delivery included: previous induced abortion [P < 0.0001], nulliparity [P < 0.001], out of wedlock birth [P...