An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: September 2009
 
  18 September 2009

Australia: Teenager charged with procuring own abortion

The Sunday Mail (Queensland) reports on the teenager facing the state’s first abortion trial in nearly 25 years. 

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  17 September 2009

USA: Intimate partner violence and issues of fertility control

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between intimate partner violence (IPV), abortion, parity, and contraception use. From American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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  17 September 2009

USA: The role of nursing in the management of unintended pregnancy

From The Nursing Clinics of North America.

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  14 September 2009

The ABC of SRE

Report on the recent conference ‘SRE 2009: International Perspectives on The Approaches, Benefits and Constraints of Sex and Relationships Education’. By Abigail Fitzgibbon, Press and Public Policy Officer, BPAS.

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  3 September 2009

Canada: Rates of spontaneous and therapeutic abortions following use of antidepressants in pregnancy

Researchers compared two groups of women, one exposed and the other not exposed to antidepressants during pregnancy, and calculated the associated rates of spontaneous abortion (SA) and therapeutic abortion (TA). From Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

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  1 September 2009

Australia: Knowledge of and attitudes to EC among university students

This study set out to explore first year Australian university students’ knowledge and attitudes about emergency contraception and their understanding of the risk for pregnancy. From the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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  1 September 2009

USA: Towards a multidimensional measure of pregnancy intentions

The authors used a variety of exploratory statistical methods to examine measures of pregnancy intention in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. From Studies in Family Planning.

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