Judging maturity in the courts: the Massachusetts consent statute. (25/41)

This study examined the Case Summary Questionnaires completed by attorneys representing minors at judicial consent for abortion hearings in Massachusetts and filed with the Women's Bar Association. The 477 Case Summaries filed between December 1981 and June 1985 were analyzed to provide a more systematic account of how the judicial consent statute is applied in the courtroom. After hearings which typically lasted 12 minutes, only nine minors were judged immature. No evidence for a discernible pattern justifying these rulings emerged from an examination of petitioner and court characteristics such as age, length of hearing, number of weeks pregnant, or presiding judge. Further, 11 lawyers privately reported they found their clients immature. In only one instance, however, did the lawyer and judge identify the same adolescent. The findings add to a growing body or research that calls into question the ability of the consent statute to protect the best interest of the minors involved.  (+info)

Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and other micro-organisms in women seeking abortions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. (26/41)

The prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis, group B streptococcus, herpes simplex virus, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae from cervical cultures obtained from 210 women seeking abortion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America was 9.3%, 72.9%, 25.2%, 4.3%, 0.9%, and 0.9% respectively. Cultures from 40/203 (19.7%) patients failed to produce any of these organisms. C trachomatis isolation was not associated with age, race, marital status, average family income, number of sexual partners, history of gonorrhoea or syphilis, or previous pregnancies, live births, or abortions, and 82.4% of women with chlamydial infections had had no urogenital symptoms in the preceding six months. The highest concentration of U urealyticum was 10(5) colour changing units (ccu)/ml, and about half of the positive ureaplasma cultures produced less than 10(3) ccu/ml of this organism. Screening for C trachomatis, is encouraged to prevent neonatal morbidity and the common complication of pelvic inflammatory disease after abortion.  (+info)

Requests for termination of pregnancy in the East Midland area--Sheffield region. (27/41)

A study was carried out of patients seeking termination of pregnancy through their general practitioners. Three quarters of these patients were recommended for termination. Of these 80 per cent did, ultimately, have the pregnancy aborted. A number of patients showed guilt feelings but anything approaching mental illness occurred in only two patients.  (+info)

Requests for abortion in general practice. (28/41)

The requests for abortion occurring during a three year period in an urban general practice have been analysed and discussed.  (+info)

Unwanted pregnancy in general practice.(29/41)

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Abortion denied--outcome of mothers and babies.(30/41)

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Psychiatric sequelae of induced abortion.(31/41)

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Minor women obtaining abortions: a study of parental notification in a metropolitan area. (32/41)

Data were collected from 141 women under age 18 attending an abortion clinic that did not require parental notification. Most of them informed their girl friend but not their parents of the plans for abortion. Younger minors and those who perceive their parents to hold positive attitudes toward abortion were more apt to inform parents. Reasons for not informing parents included fears of physical retaliation. Implications for parental notification legislation are discussed.  (+info)