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  1. Abortion

    Abortion is a common health intervention. It is very safe when carried out using a method recommended by WHO, appropriate to the pregnancy duration and by someone with the necessary skills. However, around 45% of abortions are unsafe. Unsafe abortion is an important preventable cause of maternal deaths and morbidities.

  2. A research on abortion: ethics, legislation and socio-medical outcomes

    The analysis of abortion by means of medical and social documents. Abortion means a pregnancy interruption "before the fetus is viable" [] or "before the fetus is able to live independently in the extrauterine environment, usually before the 20 th week of pregnancy" [].]. "Clinical miscarriage is both a common and distressing complication of early pregnancy with many etiological ...

  3. Abortion's Effects on Physical and Mental Health

    Abortion has been linked to mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, post abortion stress syndrome, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts and actions. Post-abortion mental health issues often are not reported or focused on as heavily as the physical side-effects of abortion. But for many women, it is the mental and emotional side-effects ...

  4. Why restricting access to abortion damages women's health

    In late June, the landmark Roe v.Wade ruling was overturned by the United States Supreme Court, a decision, decried by human rights experts at the United Nations [], that leaves many women and girls without the right to obtain abortion care that was established nearly 50 years ago.The consequences of limited or nonextant access to safe abortion services in the US remain to be seen; however ...

  5. Impact of abortion law reforms on women's health services and outcomes

    Although abortion is a medical procedure, its legal status in many countries has been incorporated in penal codes which specify grounds in which abortion is permitted. These include prohibition in all circumstances, to save the woman's life, to preserve the woman's health, in cases of rape, incest, fetal impairment, for economic or social ...

  6. How Abortion Changed the Arc of Women's Lives

    Legal abortion means that the law recognizes a woman as a person. It says that she belongs to herself. Most obviously, it means that a woman has a safe recourse if she becomes pregnant as a result ...

  7. What can economic research tell us about the effect of abortion access

    To measure the causal effect of abortion on women's lives, one must differentiate its effects from those of other forces, such as economic opportunity, social mores, the availability of ...

  8. Abortion

    Abortion. Abortion, the medical or surgical termination of a pregnancy, is one of the oldest, most common, and most controversial medical procedures. Research shows people who are denied abortions are more likely to experience higher levels of anxiety, lower life satisfaction, and lower self-esteem compared with those who are able to obtain ...

  9. Abortion Care in the United States

    Abortion services have been targeted by restrictive policies, and unequal access is further compounded by existing weaknesses in our health care system, as highlighted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. 7,8 This already fragmented landscape was further complicated when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there was no constitutional right to abortion in its June 24, 2022 ...

  10. The negative health implications of restricting abortion access

    In the U.S., legal frameworks are increasingly limiting access to abortion. Even while Roe is in place, many people are currently unable to receive abortion care. If the Supreme Court were to limit or overturn Roe, abortion would remain legal in 21 states and could immediately be prohibited in 24 states and three territories.

  11. Abortion Policy in the United States: The New Legal Landscape and Its

    Policy Points. The historic 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization decision has created a new public policy landscape in the United States that will restrict access to legal and safe abortion for a significant proportion of the population.; Policies restricting access to abortion bring with them significant threats and harms to health by delaying or denying essential ...

  12. The effect of abortion on having and achieving aspirational one-year

    Background Women commonly report seeking abortion in order to achieve personal life goals. Few studies have investigated whether an abortion enables women to achieve such goals. Methods Data are from the Turnaway Study, a prospective cohort study of women recruited from 30 abortion facilities across the US. The sample included women in one of four groups: Women who presented for abortion just ...

  13. The abortion and mental health controversy: A comprehensive literature

    Introduction. In 1992, the Journal of Social Issues dedicated an entire issue to the psychological effects of induced abortion. In an overview of the contributors' papers, the editor, Dr Gregory Wilmoth, concluded, There is now virtually no disagreement among researchers that some women experience negative psychological reactions postabortion.

  14. The facts about abortion and mental health

    The women in the Turnaway Study who were denied an abortion reported more anxiety symptoms and stress, lower self-esteem, and lower life satisfaction than those who received one (JAMA Psychiatry, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2017).Women who proceeded with an unwanted pregnancy also subsequently had more physical health problems, including two who died from childbirth complications (Ralph, L. J., et al ...

  15. A Preview of the Dangerous Future of Abortion Bans

    Interview with Dr. Lauren Thaxton on the adverse effects on patients, physicians, and trainees of the new Texas abortion law. 11m 17s Download When the U.S. Supreme Court issues its decision in ...

  16. 2. Social and moral considerations on abortion

    Methodology. Relatively few Americans view the morality of abortion in stark terms: Overall, just 7% of all U.S. adults say abortion is morally acceptable in all cases, and 13% say it is morally wrong in all cases. A third say that abortion is morally wrong in most cases, while about a quarter (24%) say it is morally acceptable most of the time.

  17. Mental Health Implications of Abortion Restrictions for Historically

    Legal abortion is a safe clinical procedure, with extremely low rates of complications and death. 1 Conversely, the risk of death associated with childbirth is 14 times that associated with legal ...

  18. Long-Term Health Effects

    As noted in Chapter 1, some states require that abortion patients be offered or provided information indicating that abortion negatively affects future fertility (Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas); risk of breast cancer (Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas); and/or mental health disorders (Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, North ...

  19. Key facts about abortion views in the U.S.

    Women (66%) are more likely than men (57%) to say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to the survey conducted after the court's ruling. More than half of U.S. adults - including 60% of women and 51% of men - said in March that women should have a greater say than men in setting abortion policy.

  20. 'It's needless death': Ugandan activists decry restrictive abortion

    Dangerous consequences. International Safe Abortion Day is a fairly recent phenomenon, established by the NGO, Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, in 2011 to mark the liberalisation ...

  21. 5. The Psychological Effects of Abortion

    The linkage between the legal and cultural status of abortion and its psychological effects poses a complex problem for researchers hoping to isolate the consequences of abortion. If adverse reactions are clearly present, it is difficult to determine whether they arise more from the abortion itself or from other factors, such as social ...

  22. Psychological Consequences of Abortion among the Post Abortion Care

    The results revealed that at least one-third of the respondents have experienced psychological side effects. Depression, worrying about not being able to conceive again and abnormal eating behaviors were reported as dominant psychological consequences of abortion among the respondents. Decreased self-esteem, nightmare, guilt, and regret with 43 ...

  23. The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States

    Abortion has been investigated for its potential long-term effects on future childbearing and pregnancy outcomes, risk of breast cancer, mental health disorders, and premature death. ... Physical health effects The committee identified high-quality research on numerous outcomes of interest and concludes that having an abortion does not increase ...