CONTEXT Accurate information about abortion incidence and services is necessary to monitor levels of unwanted pregnancy and women's ability to access abortion services. METHODS All known abortion providers in the United States were contacted for information about abortion services in 2004 and 2005. This information, along with data from the U.S. Census Bureau, was used to examine national and...

The article considers three theses about postabortion regret which seek to illustrate its pertinence to reasoning about abortion, and which are often deployed, either explicitly or implicitly, to dissuade women out of that reproductive choice. The first is that postabortion regret renders an abortion morally unjustified. The second is that that a relatively high incidence of postabortion regret...

Recurrent miscarriage is a distressing problem that affects 1% of all women. This incidence is greater than that expected by chance alone, since 10–15% of all clinically recognised pregnancies end in a miscarriage and the theoretical risk of three consecutive pregnancy losses is 0.34%. Hence, only a proportion of women presenting with recurrent miscarriage will have a persistent underlying caus...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the risk of adverse birth outcome in women who take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs during pregnancy. DESIGN AND SETTING Population based cohort study and a case-control study, both based on data from a prescription registry, the Danish birth registry, and one county's hospital discharge registry. PARTICIPANTS COHORT STUDY: 1462 pregnant women who had taken up pr...

The goal of the ATPR method is to collect quantitative data on induced abortion in countries where access to abortion services is highly restricted and the practice is clandestine. The method yields data on the incidence of abortion, the social and demographic characteristics of women who resort to abortion (age, educational level, employment, parity, marital status, residence, etc.), and the c...