An update on issues relating to abortion,
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Medical update
 
  4 April 2012

UK: Time as a dimension of medical law

This paper considers the importance of temporal categories in medical law argumentation. From Medical Law Review. 

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  30 March 2012

USA: Antiabortion violence in the United States

This study was conducted to determine if an association exists between the amount of harassment and violence directed against abortion providers and the restrictiveness of state laws relating to family planning. From Contraception. 

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  30 March 2012

USA: The relationship between state abortion-restrictions and homicide deaths among children under 5

The purpose of this study is to explore whether, in the U.S., there are associations between state-level variations in mortality among young children and state abortion restriction policies - such as parental-consent requirements, parental-notification requirements, mandatory delay laws, and restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortion. From Social Science and Medicine. 

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  6 February 2012

UK: A ‘fast-track’ referral service for intrauterine contraception following early medical abortion

This study found that only half the women fast-tracked for intrauterine contraception actually attended and these tended to be women who were pre-existing clients of the family planning clinic. From Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 

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  3 February 2012

USA: The comparative safety of legal induced abortion and childbirth in the United States

This study found that the risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion, and that the overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion. From Obstetrics and Gynecology. 

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  1 February 2012

USA: A cost-effectiveness analysis of surgical versus medical management of early pregnancy loss

From Fertility and Sterility. 

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  1 February 2012

Italy: Abortion and the argument from potential: what we owe to the ones who might exist

The author challenges the idea that the argument from potential (AFP) represents a valid moral objection to abortion. From Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.

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