Complications of Induced Abortion
Induced Abortion and Placenta Previa
Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer
Induced Abortion and Mental Health
Induced Abortion and Maternal Mortality
Induced Abortion and Pre-Term Birth
General introduction to abortion complications
When legal induced abortion came on the scene in American medicine in January, 1973, it’s acceptance as a part of “medical care” was unique: It was accepted as a standard or care without real examination of it’s potential after-effects on the patient. Legal abortion was part of a legal-societal initiative, rather than as the culmination of a scientific process in biomedicine. Normally, the introduction of a new medical “treatment” would involve extensive clinical testing over time, and a balanced and thorough consideration of the medical literature for the effect on the patient’s health and well being, both in the short term and in the long term. THIS EXTENSIVE SAFETY EVALUATION, especially with regard to longer term complications, DID NOT HAPPEN WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF LEGAL ELECTIVE ABORTION.…