Kernels at the ear tip of field grown maize (Zea mays L.) often abort during flowering, resulting in significant yield loss. The objective of this study was to determine if abortion is initiated by an inadequate supply of carbohydrates for growth of ear tip kernels, and/or by a hormonal signal. ...

America's practice of abortion is not merely a matter of medical technology but of a changing ethical consciousness. The continuing dispute over legalized abortion since the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is a conflict between two historically different ethical views of human life. This survey shows the ...

Carol Everett was involved in the abortion industry in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas, area from 1977 until 1983. As director of four clinics and owner of two, Ms. Everett was responsible for the clinic's daily operation as well as for all employee training programs. Ms. Everett, who had an abortion ...

"In this paper we first discuss the two-stage process of legalizing induced abortion in Singapore, the initial legalization to make it available on a restrictive basis in 1970 and the complete liberalization to make it available on demand from 1975 onwards. The incidence of abortions registered in the last seventeen ...

The defendant was the boyfriend of a woman who erroneously believed herself to be pregnant and decided to have an abortion. He rented a car and drove her from the Federal Republic of Germany to the Netherlands where the abortion took place. Upon their return, he was charged with violation ...

Among other things, this Act prohibits funds appropriated under the Act from being expended by the Mayor of the District of Columbia after 1 January 1989 unless there is implemented a system of mandatory reporting of individual abortions, with the identity of the aborting woman and abortion provider remaining confidential ...

The Court held that provisions of a law enacted by the canton Zug restricting access to abortion were invalid because they were in conflict with federal law provisions relating to abortion. The law in question required 1) that abortions could be performed only by specialists in gynecology and obstetrics; 2) ...

This opinion concerns the prosecution of a woman who had obtained an abortion after claiming that her husband had raped her. Spanish law provides for the possibility of obtaining an abortion after rape as long as fewer than 12 weeks of pregnancy have passed, and the abortion is reported to ...

In the 1984 election, Ronald Reagan, the Republican presidential incumbent and an opponent of legal abortion, defeated Walter Mondale, a prochoice Democrat, by a wide margin. Despite Reagan's sweep of 49 states, however, conservatives lost a little ground in the Senate, where four of the seven new senators elected take ...

This Act amends Sections 36-2152 36-2153 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, which deal with parental notification requirements for abortions performed on minors. It replaces such notification requirements with a requirement that the treating physician receive written consent from one of the minor's parents or the minor's legal guardian before an ...

This survey explores family planning field workers' basic beliefs and value assessments related to a new human life and their relationship to their verbal statements of ethical judgments about induced abortion under varying circumstances. It also relates these beliefs to stated experience of abortion referrals. Implications for education and research ...

Erde review three works that in his opinion have made important contributions to the abortion debate: Abortion Policy: An Evaluation of the Consequences For Maternal and Infant Health, by Jerome S. Legge, Jr. (Albany: State University of New York Press; 1985); Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, by Kristen Luker ...

This report describes the diagnosis and management of autumn abortions in a commercial swine herd in Ontario. A consistent pattern of abortions in the fall (and to a lesser extent, winter and spring) months was established from the herd records of 1980 to 1982. The percent abortions (of all farrowings) ...

The frequency of hysterectomy as treatment for abortion complications may reflect the incidence of serious abortion morbidity. To examine this use of hysterectomy, the authors analyzed reports of approximately 237,000 legal abortions performed in the United States from 1970 to 1978. Overall, the rate of hysterectomy associated with curettage abortion ...

This is a review of the current status of legal and illicit abortions in England as related to the changes brought on by the United Kingdom Abortion Act or 1968. The controversy surrounding the Act is discussed, and a review of mortality statistics is also included.

In 1965, Tunisia became the first Moslem country to liberalize abortion laws. This paper is a review of Tunisia's experience and is, therefore, significant to other Moslem countries. The experience is also of interest to the developing world, as it demonstrates that such liberalization does not lead to excessive use ...

Interviews with consultant gynaecologists serving the Wessex region about various aspects of their abortion work revealed considerable variations in attitudes and practice. Although the respondents referred to the same criteria in deciding whether to do an abortion, the assessments they made about the significance of these criteria were more of ...

This piece describes abortion practices in use from the 1600s to the 19th century among the inhabitants of North America. The abortive techniques of women from different ethnic and racial groups as found in historical literature are revealed. Thus, the point is made that abortion is not simply a "now ...

In missed abortion myometrial contractility is thought to be suppressed. However, such a simple procedure as sweeping of the fetal membranes by physiologic saline solution was found to provoke abortion within 24 hours in 10 of 12 cases of missed abortion, but not in any of 10 women admitted for ...

In 1972 and 1974 opinions on legal abortion were surveyed over national random probability samples each of 2400 respondents aged 15 years and above. Both surveys found majorities favouring certain specific grounds for legal abortion. Some of these reasons approved by the majority are not legal under present law. There ...

Mr Gardner, a practising gynaecologist who is necessarily involved with abortion, suggests a view of the fetus which is between the positions commonly held: the fetus is a mass of cells, the fetus is a person from the moment of conception. He considers that from the moment of conception there ...

In the examination of bovine fetal material it was found that there was a significant increase in the proportion of mixed infections identified as the time between abortion and the collection of the samples increased. Examination of paired serum samples from abortions from which only Corynebacterium pyogenes was isolated revealed ...

A technique of ambulatory abortion for first trimester pregnancies by vacuum suction curettage under local anesthesia with intracervical block is described. The apparatus and relevant problems are discussed. A shortened speculum devised by the author and considered an improvement for this procedure, and a simplified sterile field are described. The ...

A study was carried out at the Adolescent Unit of The Montreal Children's Hospital from September 1970 to December 1972, the focus of which evolved from the pregnant teenager in general to the short- and long-term effects of her abortion. Answers to a questionnaire administered to 65 pregnant girls to ...

A survey conducted with a sample of 20% of general practitioners over six months in 1972 disclosed a request rate for termination approaching 10% of all pregnancies. The attitude and performance of the practitioner were considered to be important in the patient's requests for this, and patients were thought to ...

The clinical value of maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) as a guide to the outcome of threatened abortion was assessed. After the thirteenth week of gestation, abortion occurred more frequently (10/12) in women with abnormal serum AFP levels than in those (2/12) whose AFP concentrations were within the normal range. Low ...

The clinical value has been assessed of circulating placental lactogen levels as a pointer to the outcome in a patient with vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy. By using a semiautomated radioimmunoassay the normal range of values for the first and second trimesters has been established. In patients admitted with vaginal ...

The use of prostaglandins E(2) and F(2)alpha, administered by extra-amniotic instillation, for the induction of abortion was studied in 94 patients in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy. Abortion was successfully induced in 87% of patients within 36 hours and in 94% within 48 hours. The mean abortion time ...

Out of 177 Rh(D)-negative patients studied, 96 were successfully followed-up after spontaneous or therapeutic abortion. Rh antibodies were detected by the indirect Coombs test in two patients and by an enzyme technique only in a further seven, an overall incidence of 9.4%.The prophylactic use of anti-D immunoglobulin is now recommended ...

Present Canadian abortion laws are victimizing the medical profession by insisting that doctors make moral decisions while society and the legislators opt out of their responsibility in this regard.The laws are so vague as to be uninterpretable, dealing with undefined concepts such as "endanger" and "health". The doctor-patient relationship is ...

Intravenous infusions of prostaglandin E (E(1) or E(2)) were used for termination of pregnancy in 11 patients. Induction of abortion was successful in nine instances and in eight the abortion was complete. No undesirable side-effects were recorded.

This statistical bulletin summarises information from the abortion notification forms returned to the Chief Medical Officers of England and Wales in respect of abortions carried out in England and Wales in 2003. Published in August 2004 by the Department of Health. In PDF requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Published by the Department of Health in June 2007, this bulletin summarises information about the abortion notification forms returned to the Chief Medical Officers of England and Wales in respect of abortions carried out in England and Wales in 2006. The total number of abortions performed on women resident in ...

This statistical bulletin summarises information from the abortion notification forms returned to the Chief Medical Officers of England and Wales in respect of abortions carried out in England and Wales in 2004. Published in July 2005 by the Department of Health.

Published by the Department of Health in June 2008, this bulletin summarises information about the abortion notification forms returned to the Chief Medical Officers of England and Wales in respect of abortions carried out in England and Wales in 2007. The total number of abortions performed on women resident in ...

This article focuses on the striking expansion of international and regional human rights standards and jurisprudence that support women's human right to abortion. It summarises pertinent developments within the United Nations, European, Inter-American and African human rights systems regarding abortion, as they relate to women's rights to life and health, ...

In England, Scotland and Wales legislation has facilitated the process of procuring an abortion to the point at which, in 2007, it appears to have been effectively assimilated into contemporary life. However, despite the legal acceptance of abortion it remains an ethically contentious subject. Arguments in favour of, or in ...