Legal abortion is the most frequently performed operation in the UK with about half these operations being undertaken within the NHS. Forty per cent of women in the UK will have had a pregnancy terminated by the age of 45 years. It has been estimated that worldwide 150,000 pregnancies are terminated each day (about one million each week and 350 million each year)! In some countries, such as Russia, more pregnancies are terminated than continue. Many Russian women will have between three and eight pregnancy terminations. There were 10 million terminations in China in 1987. Since the fall of communism in Romania, nearly four out of every five pregnancies are terminated. There are currently about six billion people in the world. This is increasing by 1 billion every ten years.
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- 1 What does the term abortion mean?
- 2 What are the legal criteria that permit doctors to terminate a pregnancy in the UK?
- 3 How could we tell if there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped - e.g. Down Syndrome?
- 3A What is Tay Sachs and should we test for it?
- 4 How prevalent is pregnancy termination?
- 5 Why do unwanted pregnancies occur?
- 6 I think I may be pregnant and I do not want to have a baby now. What should I do?
- 7 Should I terminate my pregnancy for social reasons?
- 8 How can my pregnancy be terminated?
- 9 What does a suction (surgical) termination of pregnancy involve?
- 10 What is a medical abortion?
- 11 What will happen to me if I have a medical abortion?
- 12 How do medical and surgical pregnancy termination compare?
- 13 What are the chances of medical termination failing?
- 14 What are the risks of pregnancy termination?
- 15 Why is there debate about the ethics of pregnancy termination?
- 16 Support Groups.
- 17 Where can I obtain more information?
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