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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Abortions"”.
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Emergency contraceptive awareness among women with abortions at University Teaching Hospital Lusaka
… ratio of 591/100 000 live births with unsafe abortions being one of the major causes. Adolescents and young women are particularly vulnerable to unsafe induced abortion with its complications. It has been estimated that widespread use of emergency contraception pills (ECPs) could play a …
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A study of factors leading to criminal abortions among teenagers in Lusaka, Zambia
… factors precipitating teenage criminal abortions, in Lusaka, Zambia. In this respect, several issues were examined and studied. These included attitudes portrayed by various social and cultural institutions towards premarital pregnancies among teenagers; these institutions such as, the …
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A study of factors leading to criminal abortions among teenagers in Lusaka, Zambia
… factors precipitating teenage criminal abortions, in Lusaka, Zambia. In this respect, several issues were examined and studied. These included attitudes portrayed by various social and cultural institutions towards premarital pregnancies among teenagers; these institutions such as, the …
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Effects of Parental Notification and Consent Laws on Teenage Births and Abortions in Texas
Teen pregnancy and teen abortions are major public health concerns in the United States. The more than 300,000 births to teens each year often involve increased risk to the health of the mother and the baby. Teenage pregnancy and births also raise a variety of related political, clinical, social, …
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An exploration of the causes of abortions among adolescent girls in Chingola and Chililabombwe districts.
… an investigation on exploration of the causes of abortions among adolescent girls in chingola and Chililabombwe districts. The objectives of this study were to explore the knowledge about abortion among adolescent girls, describe the current state of abortion among adolescent girls, and describe …
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An exploration of the causes of abortions among adolescent girls in Chingola and Chililabombwe districts.
… an investigation on exploration of the causes of abortions among adolescent girls in chingola and Chililabombwe districts. The objectives of this study were to explore the knowledge about abortion among adolescent girls, describe the current state of abortion among adolescent girls, and describe …
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The value of routine histological examination of curettings in all first and second trimester abortions
… to assess whether, in first and second trimester abortions, the clinical diagnosis together with the macroscopic appearance of the curettings was an accurate guide to the correct diagnosis, and whether routine histological examination of all curettings was therefore necessary. The study included 1 …
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A case study of the use of feminist psychotherapy with women who have had abortions
In this study the use of feminist psychotherapy with a woman who has had an abortion is explored. A survey of the literature shows that this approach to psychotherapy is based on a philosophy that women's pathology is inextricably linked to the patriarchal influences of society that have devalued …
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A synthetic control model to estimate the effect of Colorado's Family Planning Initiative on abortions.
… substitution effect of decreasing the number of abortions. Even though abortions decreased in Colorado after the initiative, we find no evidence of a causal relationship.
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Harm Reduction of Unsafe Abortion in Latin America
… mortality in the developing world. Most unsafe abortions occur where abortion is legally restricted. Like many Latin American countries, Argentina prohibits abortion in most circumstances, and maternal mortality from unsafe abortion is high. While spending three months in Buenos Aires, I met an …
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The Social Construction of Deviance, Activism, and Identity in Women's Accounts of Abortion
… examines the ways in which women who have had abortions invoke the rhetoric of "sympathetic abortion" in making sense of their own experiences. For the pro-choice movement, young, childless women accomplish sympathetic abortions in light of factors like responsible birth control use and the …
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Predictors of Induced Abortion Among Female Youth Center Users in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Objective: Induced abortions occur in every country in the world. However sixty percent of the world's women live in countries where abortion is illegal. 19 million pregnancies end in unsafe and/or illegal abortions. Annually, 68,000 women die from unsafe abortions. Legal or not, unsafe abortion is …
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The Termination of the Quickening Doctrine: American Law, Society, and the Advent of Professional Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
… to redefine the moment of animation and restrict abortions. The physicians' motivation was not concern for the fetus. The physicians gained status and power from the restriction of abortion; they emerged fro the century as the only abortion authority. Physicians alone were able to sanction …
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PRO-CHOICE? SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONSTRICTIONS UPON WOMEN’S ABILITY TO CHOOSE MEDICATION ABORTION
… example, although the FDA expanded medication abortions for use up to ten weeks of gestation in 2016 from the previous seven-week limit, studies show safety and efficacy beyond ten weeks of gestation. Many states have laws which restrict access to medication abortions beyond their laws that …
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Abortion Beyond the Binary: Transgender people have historically been left out of abortion and reproductive health research. Now, two researchers are bringing their experiences to light.
When it comes to accessing abortions and other reproductive healthcare, transgender people throughout the United States face a minefield of issues—from getting insurance coverage to dealing with medical providers who don’t know how to treat them, to weathering discrimination—but very little …
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Neospora caninum - eine Abortursache beim Rind
… particularly concerning the incidence of abortions in cattle populations infected by this parasite. In 1988 the Toxoplasma-like protozoon found in dogs was named N. caninum. In more than 40 countries N. caninum has been diagnosed since that time and about 17 different species were found to …
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Unveiling Jewett's hidden voice: discovering the aborted future of Dunnet Landing in The Country of the Pointed Firs
… heroic. Indeed, a pervading recurrence of abortions and otherwise lost children among the predominately female community of Dunnet Landing creates a framework of death by which to interpret the actions and motivations of Jewett‟s characters. My thesis explores the larger metaphor Jewett …
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