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Jill Durocher

Abortion: What is the Problem?

Published
February 18th, 2012
Type
Publication
Topic
Abortion, general
Authors
Winikoff, B., Sheldon, W.
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Lancet; 2012 Feb 18; 379(9816):594-6; doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60038-5

In this commentary Winikoff and Sheldon emphasize that “it is precisely where abortion is illegal that it must become safer” and note “the public health community will not be able to address maternal mortality adequately and attainment of Millennium Development Goals is questionable until we directly confront the issue of unsafe abortion”. They also call for a re-examination of the definition of unsafe abortion that take into consideration innovations in abortion care such as medical abortion.