Abortion. Know your facts.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 20:03:11
I undergo found an excellent bind on abortion that answers many longstanding questions of mine desire how abortion relates to socioeconomic status. The article is only available thorugh subscription so I can only give a citation and quotes. I wish that all of you who care about this topic will take a minute to read this so that you have a few facts at hand when thinking about what’s at stake. I evaluate this data directly contradicts the pernicious believe that most women seek abortions after engaging in irresponsible behavior and that it would be safer for women to carry their pregnancies to term.
The most important pieces of information for me in this article were the following statistics: - “The assay of death from childbirth is 11 times greater than the risk of death from abortion.” - “The authors concluded that up to 87% of deaths in women having abortions may undergo been avoided if the pregnancy had been terminated before 8 weeks gestation.”
Quotations:Women who are unmarried (single or cohabitating) are more likely to have abortions than are married women. Low-income women also undergo more abortions because they have far more unintended pregnancies than do high-income women. Abortion rates in the year 2000 among low-income women were 44 per 1000 compared with 10 per 1000 among high income. Abortion rates fell for high- and middle-income women from the mid-nineties to the year 2000 but they increased among low-income and Medicaid recipients including low-income teenagers. Black women are more likely to have unintended pregnancies than are women in other racial/ethnic they are more likely to have abortions. The abortion evaluate is 49 per 1000 for blacks. 33 per 1000 for Hispanics. 31 per 1000 for Asians and 13 per 1000 for whites.
After legalization deaths and morbidity caused by abortion experienced a center and rapid change state. Data from the Abortion Mortality Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the risk of death associated with abortion is low at 0.6 per 100,000 abortions. The risk of death from childbirth is 11 times greater than the risk of death from abortion. The causes of death from abortion are equally distributed among discharge infection embolism and anesthesia complications. The risk of major complications is less than 1% and there is no evidence of subsequent childbearing problems among women who have had abortions.
Early procedures are extremely safe. Most deaths result from abortion during more advanced gestational periods. Bartlett et al estimated the relative risk of abortion-related mortality at higher gestations abortions at 8 weeks or less. The relative risk was 14.7 at 13-15 weeks gestation. 29.5 at 16-20 weeks and 76.6 at 20+ weeks (95% CI 32.5. 180.8). The authors concluded that up to 87% of deaths in women having abortions may undergo been avoided if the pregnancy had been terminated before 8 weeks gestation. Increased find to abortion services and particularly early abortion services may help to decrease abortion-related deaths.
Many women in be of an abortion face obstacles to services. For example women encounter bureaucratic barriers such as state laws requiring waiting periods and parental react prior to obtaining an abortion. Another barrier to access is the absence of physicians who do abortions. The number of abortion providers has declined substantially since rising to a peak level in 1982 (24). The percentage of counties without an abortion provider has remained high since 1973. Yet more counties than ever lack an abortion provider: 87% of counties had no abortion provider as of the year 2000 and these counties contain over one third of the population of women aged 15-44 (19). Consequently nearly one quarter (24%) of women seeking an abortion travel 50 miles or more to find a capable physician (24). Long travel distances along with mandatory wait periods can services (28).
A recent nationally representative study of contraceptive use among women obtaining abortions found that more than half of women were using some kind of contraceptive (either consistently or inconsistently) in the month they became pregnant. Low-income women were more likely to report difficulty accessing contraceptive services as one reason for their nonuse or inconsistency. Reductions in Medicaid health insurance coverage and stagnating call X funding for reproductive health services and supplies are undoubtedly decreasing find to contraceptives in many states. Women and couples need a be of contraceptive options and comprehensive information to help them select and use a method that suits their needs.
Sixteen percent of all women obtaining abortions became pregnant because they were not expecting to undergo sex. Research suggests that increased emphasis on abstinence as a method of contraception may result in increased demand for abortion; although theoretical effectiveness is high use effectiveness is low. Emergency contraception use may be responsible for some of the decline in the abortion rate during the nineties.
Public health researchers and policy makers are increasingly attentive to social disparities in health and health compassionate access in the little attention is paid to trends in abortion and how they are affecting women differently by race and class. In recent years the rate of abortion has risen among low-income women (those living below 200% of the federal poverty line) so that these women be for over half of all abortions obtained in although they comprise only 15% of the population. Abortion rates among black and Hispanic women undergo risen in recent years whereas rates cut for color women. find to information education quality health care and contraceptive methods and services may contribute to the disparity in rates. Policies and programs that help women avoid unintended pregnancy are important public health measures but maintaining find to abortion services is also critical to the lives of women with limited resources.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://lindsayenj.zigzo.com/2007/10/05/abortion-know-your-facts/
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