• Most abortions result from unintended pregnancies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Results Increased risk of spontaneous abortion was found for pregnancies with exposure to paternal stainless-steel welding (adjusted relative risk 3.5, 95% confidence interval 1.3-9.1). (sjweh.fi)
  • There was no increased risk for spontaneous abortion in pregnancies with paternal exposure to the welding of metals other than stainless steel. (sjweh.fi)
  • About 10 percent of early pregnancies end in a miscarriage before the twentieth week. (healthline.com)
  • Due to the high prevalence of depression in women of childbearing age and coupled with the fact that approximately 50% of the pregnancies are unplanned, there is a high chance that these women have been exposed to antidepressants in early pregnancy. (nih.gov)
  • The incidence of recurrent abortion is approximately 10-15% among all pregnancies. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Based on estimated lifetime risk, each American woman is expected to have 3.2 pregnancies, of which 2 will be a live birth, 0.7 will be an induced abortion, and 0.5 will be a miscarriage. (medscape.com)
  • Approximately 50-70% of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion . (coastalfertility.com)
  • The syndrome is associated with a 30-50% rate of early loss of clinically recognized pregnancies after either spontaneous or assisted conception 3-8 , a rate three-fold higher than that reported for normal women 7,8 . (hormones.gr)
  • After combining and reviewing the results from these studies, the researchers concluded that "the totality of worldwide epidemiological evidence indicates that pregnancies ending as either spontaneous or induced abortions do not have adverse effects on women's subsequent risk of developing breast cancer. (mediamatters.org)
  • Identification AultCare's objective is to identify high-risk pregnancies as early as possible. (issuu.com)
  • Spontaneous abortion, which is the loss of a pregnancy without outside intervention before 20 weeks' gestation, affects up to 20 percent of recognized pregnancies. (pdffox.com)
  • The levels of reported spontaneous abortion measured in the 2002 NSFG are consistent with the accumulated body of research to date, though substantially more pregnancy losses (including stillbirths and ectopic pregnancies) are reported on self-administered surveys than in face-to-face interviews. (cdc.gov)
  • Using 1996 data, this translates into 3.89 million live births, 1.37 million abortions, and 0.98 million miscarriages. (medscape.com)
  • Obesity has also been implicated as a possible risk factor for early pregnancy loss and recurrent miscarriages in PCOS. (hormones.gr)
  • In some areas, abortion is legal only in specific cases such as rape, fetal defects, poverty, risk to a woman's health, or incest. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prospective monitoring of early fetal loss and clinical spontaneous abortion among female semiconductor workers. (cdc.gov)
  • While chromosomal abnormalities are believed to frequently be the cause of spontaneous abortion in normal women, little is known about the role of fetal chromosomal defects specifically in women with PCOS. (hormones.gr)
  • In a study 10 of 41 consecutively examined women with spontaneous abortions occurring within 11 weeks of gestation, fetal chromosomal analyses were conducted on all fetuses. (hormones.gr)
  • Reasons for procuring induced abortions are typically characterized as either therapeutic or elective. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among this predominantly premenopausal population, neither induced nor spontaneous abortion was associated with the incidence of breast cancer. (mediamatters.org)
  • However, because of the combination of the relatively low incidence of the event and the high level of underreporting, the statistical significance of subgroup differences in abortion reporting has been difficult to confirm. (cdc.gov)
  • In it, she complains that " People magazine and other outlets accepted Duggar's framing of the experience as a 'miscarriage'-which would be fine, except that an anti-abortion celebrity literally having an abortion is probably something that's worth discussing honestly. (catholic.com)
  • As the anti-abortion forces approached fulfillment of their efforts, the veneer of elevated discussion fell away. (friendsjournal.org)
  • A description of anti-abortion Friends as marked by a "commitment to nonviolence and honoring the Light of God in all human beings" is anachronistic. (friendsjournal.org)
  • It hardly captures the Machiavellian tactics that anti-abortion forces have used to build the anti- Roe majority on the Supreme Court. (friendsjournal.org)
  • Anti-abortion activists have harassed, intimidated, and bullied patients for simply seeking abortion and other essential sexual and reproductive health care with little or no accountability for decades. (friendsjournal.org)
  • Some equate the "anti-abortion" position with the "Pro-Life" position. (arcc-catholic-rights.net)
  • A great number of contemporary U.S. anti-abortion political and religious leaders support capital punishment and torture and ignore poverty, healthcare, and the environment. (arcc-catholic-rights.net)
  • Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. (wikipedia.org)
  • Those who oppose abortion often argue that an embryo or fetus is a person with a right to life, and thus equate abortion with murder. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the United Kingdom, 1 to 2% of abortions are done due to genetic problems in the fetus. (wikipedia.org)
  • A miscarriage = spontaneous abortion when fetus not yet viable. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Early Jewish scholars' interpretation of the Talmud required that the fetus be destroyed if it posed a threat to the mother during delivery. (medscape.com)
  • The ancient Romans did not consider a fetus a person until after birth, and abortion was practiced widely. (medscape.com)
  • Direct abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus. (arcc-catholic-rights.net)
  • As of 2018[update], 37% of the world's women had access to legal abortions without limits as to reason. (wikipedia.org)
  • The defense argued that Dr. Timanus performed legal abortions. (cdlib.org)
  • Worldwide, some 20-30 million legal abortions are performed annually, with another 10-20 million abortions performed illegally (see The Alan Guttmacher Institute ). (medscape.com)
  • Around 73 million abortions are performed each year in the world, with about 45% done unsafely. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the 1973 decision, approximately 1.3-1.4 million abortions have been performed annually in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • S pontaneous abortion refers to pregnancy loss at less than 20 weeks' gestation in the absence of elective medical or surgical measures to terminate the pregnancy. (pdffox.com)
  • Those who support the legality of abortion often argue that it is a woman's reproductive right. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some Friends are strong advocates for abortion rights, recognizing that a woman's choice is a matter of individual conscience to be taken in relationship with her God as she weighs the multiple impacts of pregnancy. (friendsjournal.org)
  • Clinical and early subclinical spontaneous abortions were examined among spouses of stainless-steel welders. (sjweh.fi)
  • In the present study, we comparatively analyzed the cell apoptosis and cell signaling pathways of healthy patients and those with recurrent spontaneous abortion, providing a theoretical basis for clinical treatment. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • In an interview with Media Matters , Dr. David Grimes, a clinical professor of OB/GYN at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and former chief of the Abortion Surveillance Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called the study's methodology "one of the worst" he had seen. (mediamatters.org)
  • Illegal abortions are unsafe and account for 13% of all maternal mortality and serious complications. (medscape.com)
  • Many women died in those days from pregnancy complications or from the back-alley abortions that impoverished women or frightened teenagers inevitably sought. (arcc-catholic-rights.net)
  • Inadequate methods for identifying induced or spontaneous abortion complications assure that most maternal deaths associated with those pregnancy outcomes are unlikely to be attributed. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • tion, stillbirth, death in early infancy or a Demographic characteristics and gen- lifetime of disability. (who.int)
  • Environmental tobacco smoke increases the risk of spontaneous abortion. (greenmedinfo.com)
  • Pro-life advocates have argued for years that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer -- due to hormonal changes during pregnancy which leave breasts more vulnerable to cancer. (mediamatters.org)
  • [ 1 ] Accurate statistics have been kept since the enactment of the 1973 US Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortions. (medscape.com)
  • Since the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, hundreds of laws, federal and state, have been proposed or passed, making this the most actively litigated and highly publicized area in the field of medicine. (medscape.com)
  • One effect of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was to elevate the matter of abortion from the underworld to the more polite worlds of court and church where proponents and opponents debated constitutional rights and theology. (friendsjournal.org)
  • U.S. attitudes about abortion have changed significantly since the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion. (arcc-catholic-rights.net)
  • 1996). In addition, some groups of women appear to be less likely than others to report abortions, including unmarried women, those aged 20-24, black women, low-income women (Fu et al. (cdc.gov)
  • 1996). 1 Spontaneous abortion may also be underreported if some women forget that the event occurred because a subsequent birth has taken place, or if they deem it irrelevant or, conversely, too personal. (cdc.gov)
  • Unsafe abortions-those performed by people lacking the necessary skills, or in inadequately resourced settings-are responsible for between 5-13% of maternal deaths, especially in the developing world. (wikipedia.org)
  • In contrast, unsafe abortions performed by unskilled individuals, with hazardous equipment, or in unsanitary facilities cause between 22,000 and 44,000 deaths and 6.9 million hospital admissions each year. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1 In the United States, the risk of maternal mortality is 14 times lower after induced abortion than after childbirth. (wikipedia.org)
  • When performed legally and safely on a woman who desires it, induced abortions do not increase the risk of long-term mental or physical problems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conclusion Male welding of stainless steel was associated with an increased risk of spontaneous abortion in spouses. (sjweh.fi)
  • Coffee drinking early in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of abortion. (greenmedinfo.com)
  • Heavy caffeine consumption (especially when there is nausea) during pregnancy may increase the risk of spontaneous abortion. (greenmedinfo.com)
  • Little is known about the individual and joint effects of phthalates exposure at low levels on the risk of early miscarriage. (nature.com)
  • Although exposure levels of phthalates of pregnant women have declined sharply over the past few decades, phthalates exposure was still associated with an increased risk of early miscarriage. (nature.com)
  • The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion, and overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion. (medscape.com)
  • In addition to early pregnancy loss, women with PCOS are also at risk of recurrent pregnancy loss, defined as 3 or more consecutive pregnancy losses before 20 weeks gestation. (hormones.gr)
  • The conclusion that can be drawn from these studies is that women with polycystic ovaries are overrepresented among women with early miscarriage, implying increased risk, but that among women with an established history of recurrent spontaneous abortion, the presence of polycystic ovaries does not influence the subsequent live birth rate. (hormones.gr)
  • Sickness" implies dysfunction, yet vomiting during early pregnancy is observed in a majority of expectant mothers, with some researchers linking it to a lower risk of spontaneous abortion. (news-medical.net)
  • Tucker Carlson's news website The Daily Caller is clinging to a dubious study to push the discredited claim that women who have had abortions are at greater risk for developing breast cancer. (mediamatters.org)
  • On Monday the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer pointed to a new study which found a nearly 3-fold increase in the risk of breast cancer among Armenian women who had an abortion as yet another reason women should steer clear of the procedure. (mediamatters.org)
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: No Causal Relationship Between Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk. (mediamatters.org)
  • At that time, the Committee said, "Early studies of the relationship between prior induced abortion and breast cancer risk were methodologically flawed. (mediamatters.org)
  • More rigorous recent studies demonstrate no causal relationship between induced abortion and a subsequent increase in breast cancer risk. (mediamatters.org)
  • These experts did not find that abortions (either induced or spontaneous) cause a higher breast cancer risk. (mediamatters.org)
  • At this time, the scientific evidence does not support the notion that abortion of any kind raises the risk of breast cancer or any other type of cancer. (mediamatters.org)
  • Week-by-week alcohol consumption in early pregnancy and spontaneous abortion risk: a prospective cohort study. (legehandboka.no)
  • Hu X, Miao M, Bai Y, Cheng N, Ren X. Reproductive Factors and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in the Jinchang Cohort. (legehandboka.no)
  • Caffeine and caffeinated beverage consumption and risk of spontaneous abortion. (legehandboka.no)
  • Process and Intervention AultCare's High-Risk Pregnancy Program consists of four components: early identification, member assessment, risk stratification through the removal of barriers and identification of intended outcomes, and high-risk maternity solutions. (issuu.com)
  • Women are at increased risk for significant depression and anxiety for up to one year after spontaneous abortion. (pdffox.com)
  • NIOSH studies are examining shift work and physical demands with respect to adverse pregnancy outcome among nurses, specifically the association between work schedule and risk of spontaneous abortion, preterm birth, and menstrual function. (cdc.gov)
  • Results have shown that an increased risk of several reproductive outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, early preterm birth, and menstrual cycle irregularities, are related to shift work, particularly working the night shift. (cdc.gov)
  • Pregnant women with afibrinogenemia must receive prophylaxis as early as possible, with such treatment continuing through pregnancy and after delivery. (medscape.com)
  • The reasons why women have abortions are diverse and vary across the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • In some countries abortion is legal and women have the right to make the choice about abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • An obstetric history of recurrent primary abortion with an absence of maternal antipaternal lymphocytotoxic antibodies and anti-phospholipid antibodies predicts women who are most likely to respond to allogeneic leukocyte immunization. (asklenore.info)
  • Women experiencing recurrent spontaneous abortion who have high, as opposed to low levels of leukocyte antibody do not respond to leukocyte immunization therapy. (asklenore.info)
  • Thirty-four patients with recurrent abortion and 30 healthy pregnant women undergoing planned artificial abortion were selected. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Thirty healthy pregnant women planning an artificial abortion were chosen as control. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Some women with higher-order multiples may require cerclage in early pregnancy. (keywen.com)
  • More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. (medscape.com)
  • Affected women suffer not only from infertility, but also from a high rate of early pregnancy loss, defined as miscarriage during the first trimester. (hormones.gr)
  • Early in pregnancy, many women have pelvic pain. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Vaginal Bleeding During Early Pregnancy During the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, 20 to 30% of women have vaginal bleeding. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Study Of Premenopausal Women Found No Association Between Abortion And Breast Cancer. (mediamatters.org)
  • Effect of metformin on early pregnancy loss in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. (legehandboka.no)
  • For women with incomplete spontaneous abortion, expectant management for up to two weeks usually is successful, and medical therapy provides little additional benefit. (pdffox.com)
  • We find that less than one-half (47%) of induced abortions performed in the United States between 1997 and 2001 were reported by women during face-to-face interviews in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). (cdc.gov)
  • Hispanic, black and low income women are among the least likely to report their abortions. (cdc.gov)
  • Women are also less likely to report abortions that occurred in their 20's. (cdc.gov)
  • In smaller-scale surveys where women's reports were compared to their medical records, researchers have also found underreporting, ranging from 29% of abortions reported among New Jersey welfare recipients in 1994 (Jagannathan 2001) to 81%-90% reported among women aged 27-30 who were participants in a lifelong, longitudinal healthcare study (Udry et al. (cdc.gov)
  • If substantial numbers of abortions are not reported and if underreporting varies by characteristics of the women, then associations between abortion and other outcomes could be inaccurate or misleading. (cdc.gov)
  • Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), we address the question of whether the overall level of reporting of induced abortions among all U.S. women has changed and whether differences among population subgroups have widened or narrowed. (cdc.gov)
  • To evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of women with history of induced abortion among those who became pregnant, living in Vila Mariana, São Paulo, in 2006. (bvsalud.org)
  • Age, education, number of live births, difference of number of children from the desired, and acceptance of abortion comprised the initial multinomial logistic regression model to describe the profile of women. (bvsalud.org)
  • RU-486 is the code name for an abortion drug that is now widely known as Mifepristone. (fsu.edu)
  • However, medication abortions that are self-managed are highly effective and safe throughout the first trimester. (wikipedia.org)
  • Second trimester abortions are more likely to be reported than first trimester terminations. (cdc.gov)
  • The main factor for the occurrence of abortion was not having live births, indicating a tendency of abortions to occur in the early reproductive life. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the seventh week after conception, networks of neurons produce brain waves that have been recorded as early as 6 ½ weeks after conception. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Birth control, such as the pill or intrauterine devices, can be used immediately following abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Keemer and Timanus cases, the lawyers for the state and defense each constructed their case to present competing definitions of legal abortion. (cdlib.org)
  • The rate of recurrent pregnancy loss can be as high as 50%, and recurrent spontaneous abortion brings serious injury and distress to the pregnant woman and her family ( 1 ). (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Pregnant jennies are in danger of spontaneous abortion and small foals can be permanently damaged or killed. (animallawcoalition.com)
  • This is often so early that the mother doesn't even know she is pregnant. (stanfordchildrens.org)
  • Public health data shows that making safe abortion legal and accessible reduces maternal deaths. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mortality rate related to induced abortion was 0.6 deaths per 100,000 abortions. (medscape.com)
  • Expectant management of missed spontaneous abortion has variable success rates, but medical therapy with intravaginal misoprostol has an 80 percent success rate. (pdffox.com)
  • When done legally in industrialized societies, induced abortion is one of the safest procedures in medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • in the end, the definition of a therapeutic abortion narrowed to conform to hospital policy and the space in which physicians could legally perform abortions shrank. (cdlib.org)
  • Death from abortion is almost unknown in the United States or in other countries where abortion is legally available. (medscape.com)
  • State laws on abortion provided exceptions for abortions performed for medical reasons, but when a therapeutic abortion was "indicated" was unclear. (cdlib.org)
  • The Timanus and Keemer cases centered on the definition of a legal, "therapeutic" abortion versus an illegal, "criminal" abortion. (cdlib.org)
  • In contrast to the state's construction of therapeutic abortion, the defense referred to the growing acceptance of psychiatric indications for therapeutic abortion. (cdlib.org)
  • The unmodified word abortion generally refers to an induced abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • This refers to a natural event that is not due to a medical or surgical abortion. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Now that the Supreme Court has vacated the right to abortion and turned the matter back to the states (or perhaps more precisely, to the streets), conversations in the abortion space will migrate from the distant realms of theology and constitutional rights to the realms of daily life: bedrooms, bathrooms, emergency rooms, police departments, criminal courts, jails, and prisons. (friendsjournal.org)
  • To examine the association between exposure to phthalates individually or as a mixture and early miscarriage. (nature.com)
  • it is rarely spontaneous. (cdlib.org)
  • Patients with a completed spontaneous abortion rarely require medical or surgical intervention. (pdffox.com)
  • Doctors and other medical professionals might use the word "spontaneous abortion" to describe a miscarriage. (ppl.org)
  • Doctors sometimes call miscarriage a "spontaneous abortion" in medical literature, in the sense that the pregnancy has spontaneously stopped. (catholic.com)
  • Serious and constant abdominal pain in the early stages of pregnancy, especially during the first twelve weeks, is often indicative of miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy. (pregnancy-info.net)
  • Ultrasonography is helpful in the diagnosis of spontaneous abortion, but other testing may be needed if an ectopic pregnancy cannot be ruled out. (pdffox.com)
  • The results were consistent in analyses of both biochemically and clinically recognized abortions. (sjweh.fi)
  • Our findings are consistent with previous analyses of earlier NSFG surveys demonstrating that abortion is substantially underreported and that reporting of this outcome has not improved relative to prior surveys. (cdc.gov)
  • Early studies have already indicated that there are significant adverse health outcomes associated with sleep and shift work. (cdc.gov)
  • Infectious SARS-CoV-2 in Exhaled Aerosols and Efficacy of Masks During Early Mild Infection Oxford. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • A total of 34 cases diagnosed with recurrent spontaneous abortion in our hospital were continuously selected from January 2015 to January 2016. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in the United States each year. (medscape.com)
  • Simply put, D&C after miscarriage isn't an abortion in either the medical or popular sense of "abortion. (catholic.com)
  • Hence, studies that "rely on only self-reports of abortion (as opposed to medical records) are not credible. (mediamatters.org)
  • According to the a new poll by NBC, support for abortion rights has hit a new high, with 63% of U.S. Americans opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. (arcc-catholic-rights.net)
  • Recurrent spontaneous abortion may be prevented by routine prophylaxis with fibrinogen concentrates starting early in pregnancy. (medscape.com)
  • Approximately half of all abortions are performed with this method. (medscape.com)
  • Other Friends feel their commitment to nonviolence and honoring the Light of God in all human beings requires them to limit abortion options or oppose it outright. (friendsjournal.org)
  • Because once you acknowledge abortion isn't natural like miscarriage, and isn't harmless like a post-miscarriage D&C, then you have to face the awful reality of what abortion really is. (catholic.com)
  • Spontaneous pregnancy loss" has been recommended to avoid the term "abortion" and acknowledge the emotional aspects of losing a pregnancy.1 Another emotionally neutral term is "early pregnancy failure. (pdffox.com)
  • A miscarriage is a pregnancy that ends unexpectedly in the early weeks or months. (healthline.com)
  • Only four weeks earlier, my husband and I had watched Baby's healthy heart flicker on the screen, and I was still experiencing awful morning sickness. (ppl.org)
  • The child had died three weeks earlier . (catholic.com)
  • Research involving pregnancy outcomes should be adjusted for unreported induced abortions. (cdc.gov)
  • One of the causes of early miscarriage is an abnormal number of chromosomes . (coastalfertility.com)
  • The use of abortion to preserve the life of the mother has been widely accepted. (medscape.com)
  • The distinction between legal and illegal abortions had always been gray. (cdlib.org)
  • As historical records, criminal trial records are quite different from the inquests that were crucial for uncovering abortion in the early twentieth century. (cdlib.org)