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Abortion choices in the philippines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Moira Gallen
Moira Gallen
Affiliation:
International Projects Assistance Services, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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Summary

Although abortion is still illegal in the Philippines it appears to be increasing. This article reviews the methods to which women wanting to terminate a pregnancy resort, in spite of the health risks attached to them; these traditional practices include the use of herbal and pharmaceutical preparations supposedly with abortifacient properties, catheter insertion, abdominal massage and dilatation and curettage. It then goes on to discuss menstrual data from the records of two doctors in one ciry who are amongst the relatively small number of people in the country who are using the technique at the present time.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 1979 , pp. 281 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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