Abortion Abortion

Introduction An abortion is the medical process of ending a pregnancy so it does not result in the birth of a baby.It is also sometimes known as a 'termination' or a 'termination of pregnancy'.Depending on how many weeks you have been pregnant, the pregnancy is ended either by taking medication or by having a surgical procedure.Read more about how an abortion is performed.An abortion is not the same as a miscarriage, which is where the pregnancy...

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Termination of Pregnancy

Epidemiology Incidence In Europe, 30% of all pregnancies are terminated.[2] In 2011, according to Department of Health statistics:[3]    The total number of abortions was 189,931.    The age-standardised abortion rate was 17.5 per 1,000 resident women aged 15-44.    The abortion rate was highest at 33 per 1,000, for women age 20.    The under-16 abortion rate was 3.4 and the under-18 rate was 15.0 per 1,000 women.    96% of abortions were funded by the NHS; of these,...

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Barriers to abortion create stress, financial strain for Island women: advocates

Women take part in a protest as pro-choice demonstrators rally at the New Brunswick legislature in Fredericton on Thursday, April 17, 2014. Barriers to abortion are creating stress and financial strain for Prince Edward Island women according to advocates. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David SmithIt was when Sarah was getting instructions on finding the unit at the New Brunswick hospital where she would undergo an abortion that she realized the lengths women...

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Abortion in Tennessee Factsheet

Abortion stigma is a shared belief that abortion is morally wrong and/or socially unacceptable. Abortion stigma has disastrous consequences. People seeking abortions are bullied, shamed, marginalized, and sometimes even prevented by law or intimidation from seeking safe health care services. Abortion providers are harassed, dehumanized and targeted by regulation and anti-abortion advocates. Stigma leads to the social, medical, and legal marginalization...

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Texas Abortion Case Isn't About Abortion, But The Rule Of Law

Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, the Texas abortion case that is now before the Supreme Court, is really about the rule of law and how federal judges maintain it by holding states to external standards. The case follows Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, which forbade states from using the desire to protect women’s health as a pretext for curtailing their access to abortion services. But how is a judge to distinguish a pretext from a genuine concern for patient safety?Casey seemed to say that unless all possible connections between...

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Let's talk about abortion

The Green Party recently proposed that abortion be available on demand up to 20 weeks’ gestation, and up to birth where there is risk to the mother’s mental health or a foetal abnormality. These changes would significantly liberalise New Zealand law and were met with strong opposition. Given that abortion rates in New Zealand have reduced in the past decade and that more than 98 per cent of abortions are approved on grounds of maternal mental...

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"I Felt Set Up": Why More Women Seeking Abortions Are Ending Up at Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers"I Felt Set Up": Why More Women Seeking Abortions Are Ending Up at Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers

After she felt nauseated frying eggs for her kids, a 26-year-old named Alison took a pregnancy test. Then she drove straight to Pregnancy Decision Health Center, located in a strip mall near her home on the west side of Columbus, Ohio. The positive test didn't make sense to her, since she was on the Pill. Alison (who asked Cosmopolitan not to publish her last name) didn't yet know a course of antibiotics had interfered with her birth control....

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Groups concerned about Walgreens health clinics’ ties to Catholic hospital

 SEATTLE — Nineteen groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter Monday to drugstore chain Walgreens expressing concerns about the company’s plans for a Catholic hospital to run its in-store health clinics in Washington and Oregon.In the letter, the organizations asked if the clinics would allow access to contraception, abortion drugs and prescriptions to help terminally ill patients end their own lives, which is legal in both states.The groups note that other health organizations have stopped providing abortions after partnering...

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Op-Ed In California, free speech meets abortion

Is merely requiring clinics to inform women of the availability of free or low-cost abortions an unconstitutional infringement of religious liberty? That seems to be the latest contention in the reproductive culture wars.Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law the Reproductive FACT Act, which is quite straightforward: Licensed healthcare facilities must post or distribute a notice that states,"California has public programs that provide immediate...

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California governor signs bill requiring pregnancy centers to provide abortion information

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Crisis pregnancy centers that discourage women from getting abortions in California will be required to provide information about abortions and other services under legislation Gov. Jerry Brown has approved.The measure imposes the first such statewide rule, after local communities around the country have tried similar efforts.Pregnancy crisis centers often are operated by abortion opponents, and critics say workers imply the facilities provide a range of medical care and have credentials they do not possess.Under the new law,...

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One State Finally Cracked Down on Deceptive Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers

A crisis pregnancy center in Minnesota Ben Garvin/APCalifornia on Friday became the only state to target anti-abortion pregnancy centers with a law cracking down on deceptive practices some have used to prevent or dissuade women from having an abortion.The new law, which forces some crisis pregnancy centers to offer information about public assistance for reproductive services and others to notify patients that there are no medical professionals...

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Government-Mandated Speech: Jerry Brown Signs Law Forcing Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion

(CNSNews.com) – Gov. Jerry Brown (D.-Calif.) signed a law on Friday mandating that all licensed pregnancy centers in the state “disseminate to clients” a message promoting public programs with “free or low-cost access” to abortion and contraceptive services.The new law makes no exception for pro-life and faith-based crisis pregnancy centers.Critics of the law say that it violates the right to freedom of speech, which is guaranteed by the First Amendment.AB...

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HPV immunisation rates lower in anti-vax areas

Rural regions with high rates of child vaccine refusal are also lagging in terms of adolescent HPV immunisation rates, a report shows. In areas such as the Blue Mountains and Northern NSW, fewer than 65% of 15-year-old girls are fully immunised against HPV, compared with around 90% in other Primary Health Networks areas, according to the report by the National Health Performance Authority. HPV vaccination rates in the Blue Mountains, Darwin and...

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Most AEDs should be continued in pregnancy: study

Most epilepsy drugs should not be stopped in pregnancy because the loss of seizure control outweighs the risk of fetal malformations for most drugs, an Australian study shows. Analysis of data from 148 women with epilepsy who went untreated during pregnancy found they faced a high risk of seizures but showed no reduction in fetal malformation rates. And figures derived from more than 1700 women in the Australian Register of Anti-Epilepsy Drugs...

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Scheme overcoming GP obstetrics crisis

The crisis in rural GP obstetrics can be averted by tackling concerns about isolation, work-life balance and patient safety, a program in Victoria demonstrates. A training and support program run for GP obstetricians by Southern GP Training has reversed the decline in GP obstetricians, with numbers increasing from 31 in 2007 to 39 in 2014, according to a report in the Medical Journal of Australia. A survey of GPs involved in the Gippsland program...

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Phone abortion service popular with rural women

A new telephone abortion service that allows women to bypass their GP has been inundated with requests, particularly from women in rural areas. The Tabbot Foundation received more than 2500 enquiries in the first two days after launching in September, says medical director Dr Paul Hyland. And the service continues to receive about 50 enquiries a day, with the number steadily growing. The foundation, which mails out mifepristone (RU486) and misoprostol...

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Counseling

There are many options when facing an unexpected  pregnancy. It may be helpful to understand those options and full range of your choices and their intended and unintended consequences.Come in and speak to one of our genuinely caring, licensed professional counselors before you make a choice that will affect you mentally, emotionally, spiritually and possibly physically, for the rest of your life. Ultimately the choice is yours – we just want you to make an informed choice.The counselor will give you ALL the facts and ALL the options. You...

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