This study aimed to understand better what doctors, nurses and hospital managers involved in second trimester abortion care thought about these services and how they could be improved. From Journal of Biosocial Sciences.
This is a a retrospective, descriptive study based on a 10-year-experience of misoprostol use at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital. From the Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand.
This study investigated the safety and efficacy of using misoprostol and Dilapan-S™ hygroscopic cervical dilators to prepare the cervix for surgical abortion from 12 to 18 weeks of gestation in an outpatient office setting. From Contraception.
Doctors have rejected calls for the British Medical Association to start campaigning for a cut in the legal time limit for abortion from 24 to 20 weeks.
Sara Carpenter writes in the Daily Mail of her heartrending decision to have an abortion at 18 weeks’ gestation, following a prenatal diagnosis of spina bifida.
The Daily Mail carries an interview with Joanna Jepson, who in 2002 brought a judicial review of a case in which a woman had aborted a fetus with a cleft palate after 24 weeks.