Interest in abortion research is reemerging, partly as a result of political changes and partly
due to evidence of the contribution of induced abortion to maternal mortality in developing …

METHODS: A nationally representative survey of a sample of347health facilities that provide
postabortion or safe abortion services and a survey of 80 professionals knowledgeable …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the safety of abortion compared with childbirth. METHODS: We
estimated mortality rates associated with live births and legal induced abortions in the …

Ending the silent pandemic of unsafe abortion is an urgent public-health and human-rights
imperative. As with other more visible global-health issues, this scourge threatens women …

Objective To explore the relationship between abortion restrictions and maternal mortality in
the United States. Study design This was a retrospective study examining maternal mortality …

Unsafe abortion is a significant contributor to worldwide maternal mortality; however,
abortion law and policy liberalization could lead to drops in unsafe abortion and related …

Background Global estimates of unsafe abortions have been produced for 1995, 2003, and
2008. However, reconceptualisation of the framework and methods for estimating abortion …

METHODS: This study used official statistics on women treated for abortion-related
complications in public hospitals in 2006 and data from a survey of informed health …

• Abortion restrictions were not the main driver of the decline in the US abortion rate between
2011 and 2017. Rather, the decline in abortions appears to be related to declines in births …

To the Editor: The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act1 appears to have had a very
marked impact on abortion-related mortality. This conclusion can be drawn by comparing …