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Second Trimester Abortion: Women's Health and Public Policy
On 29–31 March 2007 the International Consortium for Medical Abortion (ICMA) convened a three-day conference in London to address second trimester abortion. The conference was attended by 90 expert cl...
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Rodica Comendant,
Marge Berer
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1-2
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A Critical Appraisal of Laws on Second Trimester Abortion
Abstract: There will always be women who need abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, and their reasons are often compelling. Although second trimester abortions carry relatively more risks than first ...
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Marge Berer
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3-13
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Who is Excluded When Abortion Access is Restricted to Twelve Weeks? Evidence from Maputo, Mozambique
Abstract: In Mozambique, since 1985, induced abortion services up to 12 weeks of pregnancy are performed in the interest of protecting women's health. We asked whether any women were being adversely a...
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Momade Bay Ustá,
Ellen MH Mitchell,
Hailemichael Gebreselassie,
Eunice Brookman-Amissah,
Amata Kwizera
et al.
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14-17
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Reasons for Second Trimester Abortions in England and Wales
Abstract: This paper summarises the findings of a study on second trimester abortion in England and Wales in 2005. Second trimester abortions constitute a relatively small proportion of the total numb...
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Roger Ingham,
Ellie Lee,
Steve Joanne Clements,
Nicole Stone
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18-29
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Factors Influencing the Percentage of Second Trimester Abortions in the Netherlands
Abstract: Second trimester abortion has been legal in the Netherlands since 1984. Factors influencing second trimester abortion in the Netherlands may be different from those that play a role in first...
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Olga Loeber,
Cecile Wijsen
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30-36
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Second Trimester Abortions in India
Abstract: This article gives an overview of what is known about second trimester abortions in India, including the reasons why women seek abortions in the second trimester, the influence of abortion l...
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Suchitra S Dalvie
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37-45
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Late-Term Abortion for Fetal Anomaly: Vietnamese Women's Experiences
Abstract: Screening for fetal anomalies in the second trimester of pregnancy is increasingly becoming a part of antenatal care. As a consequence, more pregnant women are learning that the child they a...
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Tine Gammeltoft,
Trần Minh Hằng,
Nguyễn Thị Hiệp,
Nguyễn Thị Thúy Hạnh
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46-56
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Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality: The Perspective of a Parent Support Organisation
Abstract: Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC) celebrates its 20th anniversary as a UK registered charity in 2008. ARC's remit is to provide information and non-directive support to parents before, dur...
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Jane Fisher
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57-65
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Why I Do Abortions: Speech to the Morgentaler Symposium, Toronto, 25 January 2008
I am honored to be speaking today, and honored to call Henry Morgentaler my friend. I have been an abortion provider since 1972.
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Garson Romalis
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66-68
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A Week in the Life of an Abortion Doctor, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Abstract: South Africa legalised abortion in 1996. I am originally from the Netherlands and came to South Africa in 2000, to assist in the Termination of Pregnancy programme. In March 2007, at an inte...
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Marijke Alblas
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69-73
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Second Trimester Abortion Provision: Breaking the Silence and Changing the Discourse
Abstract: How do abortion providers determine how late in pregnancy they will provide abortion services? While law, training and socio-political factors likely play a part, this essay considers additi...
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Lisa H Harris
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74-81
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Decision-Making after Ultrasound Diagnosis of Fetal Abnormality
Abstract: During the last few decades, the use of ultrasonography for the detection of fetal abnormalities has become widespread in many industrialised countries. This resulted in a shift in timing of...
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Hilmar H Bijma,
Agnes van der Heide,
Hajo IJ Wildschut
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82-89
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Maintaining Access to Safe Abortion and Reducing Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia
Abstract: High sex ratios at birth (108 boys to 100 girls or higher) are seen in China, Taiwan, South Korea and parts of India and Viet Nam. The imbalance is the result of son preference, accentuated ...
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Bela Ganatra
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90-98
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Implications of the Federal Abortion Ban for Women's Health in the United States
Abstract: In 2007, the US Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, also known as the Federal Abortion Ban or “the Ban.” The decision undermines decades of established US aborti...
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Tracy A Weitz,
Susan Yanow
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99-107
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Clarifying Values and Transforming Attitudes to Improve Access to Second Trimester Abortion
Abstract: Access to safe second trimester abortion services is poor in many countries, sometimes despite liberal laws and policies. Addressing the myriad factors hindering access to safe abortion care...
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Katherine L Turner,
Alyson G Hyman,
Mosotho C Gabriel
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108-116
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Fetal Pain: Do We Know Enough to Do the Right Thing?
Abstract: Raising the possibility of fetal pain continues as a tactic to undermine support for abortion in the US and the UK. This paper examines anatomical and psychological developments in the fetus...
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Stuart WG Derbyshire
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117-126
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Applying the WHO Strategic Approach to Strengthening First and Second Trimester Abortion Services in Mongolia
Abstract: Abortion was made legal on request in Mongolia in 1989, following the collapse of the socialist regime, and later bound by a range of regulations. Concerned about the high number of abortion...
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Bazarragchaa Tsogt,
Khishgee Seded,
Brooke R Johnson,
the Strategic Assessment Team
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127-134
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Establishing Second Trimester Abortion Services: Experiences in Nepal, Viet Nam and South Africa
Abstract: This paper describes experiences and lessons learned about how to establish safe second trimester abortion services in low-resource settings in the public health sector in three countries: N...
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Alyson G Hyman,
Traci L Baird,
Indira Basnett
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135-144
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Second Trimester Abortion in Viet Nam: Changing to Recommended Methods and Improving Service Delivery
Abstract: In Viet Nam, abortion has been legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy since the 1960s. There are about one million induced abortions every year. First trimester abortion is provided at central, p...
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Tuyet Hoang TD,
Thuy Phan,
Trang Huynh NK
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145-150
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Surgical Abortion in the Second Trimester
Abstract: The development of dilatation and evacuation (D&E) as a method of second trimester surgical abortion occurred soon after abortion law reform took place in the 1960s and 1970s in Europe a...
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Patricia A Lohr
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151-161
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Second Trimester Medical Abortion with Mifepristone–Misoprostol and Misoprostol Alone: A Review of Methods and Management
Abstract: Second trimester abortions constitute 10–15% of all induced abortions worldwide but are responsible for two-thirds of major abortion-related complications. During the last decade, medical me...
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Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson,
Sujata Lalitkumar
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162-172
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Complications after Second Trimester Surgical and Medical Abortion
Abstract: Second trimester abortion is associated with higher rates of complications compared to first trimester abortion. Dilatation and evacuation (D&E) and medical induction using misoprostol a...
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Daniel Grossman,
Kelly Blanchard,
Paul Blumenthal
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173-182
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The Choice of Second Trimester Abortion Method: Evolution, Evidence and Ethics
Abstract: Decades after its introduction, dilatation and evacuation (D&E) is still not universally offered by gynaecologists who provide second trimester abortion. Three lines of evidence point to...
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David A Grimes
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183-188
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Misoprostol Preferable to Ethacridine Lactate for Abortions at 13–20 Weeks of Pregnancy: Cuban Experience
Abstract: Outdated second trimester abortion methods are still being used in some countries, and very few studies have compared them to currently recommended methods. To this end, we studied the effic...
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Alejandro Velazco Boza,
Rodolfo Gómez Ponce de León,
Luis Salas Castillo,
Dania Rebeca Yi Mariño,
Ellen MH Mitchell
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189-195
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An Historical Overview of Second Trimester Abortion Methods
Abstract: The methods used for abortion in the second trimester have changed considerably in recent years. The surgical procedure dilatation and evacuation (D&E) has replaced hysterotomy. Instead ...
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Marc Bygdeman,
Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson
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196-204
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International Conference on Second Trimester Abortion: Recommendations, 29–31 March 2007
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205-206
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