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

USA: Fighting ‘personhood’ initiatives in the United States

From Reproductive Biomedicine Online. 

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  17 April 2012

UK: The effect on use of making emergency contraception available free of charge

The authors concluded that neither availability from the pharmacy nor removal of a charge for EC has increased its use among women having an abortion in Scotland. From Contraception. 

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  17 April 2012

Switzerland: The deregulation of emergency contraception

This study asked whether, six years after deregulation of emergency contraception in Switzerland, free access has induced changes in the profile of clients attending an emergency pharmacy in Zürich. From The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care. 

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  16 April 2012

Spain: University students’ attitudes towards Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy

An evaluation of the future professional trends was performed by analysing the attitudes of university students to the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (VIP). From Legal Medicine (Tokyo).

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  13 April 2012

France: Representations and uses of emergency contraception in West Africa

From Social Science and Medicine. 

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  9 April 2012

Israel: Clinical, surgical, and histopathologic outcomes following failed medical abortion

The study’s objective was to address the consequences of surgical curettage following failed medical abortion. From International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.

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  4 April 2012

Canada: Antibiotic prophylaxis in gynaecologic procedures

The study’s objective was to review the evidence and provide recommendations on antibiotic prophylaxis for gynaecologic procedures. From Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada.

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