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Spontaneous Abortion and the Pathology of Early Pregnancy

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Fetal and Neonatal Pathology

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The medical profession divides the term abortion into two categories: induced and spontaneous. The lay public, however, tends to equate the term abortion with one which is induced, whether therapeutically, self or criminal, and to associate the term miscarriage with spontaneous abortion (Beard et al. 1985).

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