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The role of induced abortion in the changing pattern of family planning in the Netherlands

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Population and Family in the Low Countries

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The question of abortion is coming increasingly into focus. It is constantly asked how it is possible for so many women to have unwanted pregnancies despite the present-day vastly improved methods of contraception. In this article an attempt will be made to throw light on various aspects of induced abortion and their relation to contraception. The ethics of the question are purposely passed over. This has been done not because of the unimportance of this aspect — I have myself contributed to the discussion on the ethics of abortion — but because the numerous ethical arguments for and against at present threaten to overshadow the more material and objective information. Of course, a truly objective approach to such a question as this remains a goal worth-while striving after, but one which can perhaps never be completely achieved.

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  1. Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute, The Hague, the Netherlands

    H. G. Moors (Senior Research Fellow) & D. J. van de Kaa (Director) (Senior Research Fellow) &  (Director)

  2. Anthropology and Social Biology, University of Ghent, Belgium

    R. L. Cliquet (Professor, Advisor) (Professor, Advisor)

  3. Population and Family Study Center, Brussels, Belgium

    R. L. Cliquet (Professor, Advisor) (Professor, Advisor)

  4. Population and Family Study Center, Brussels, Belgium

    G. Dooghe (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

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Treffers, P.E. (1976). The role of induced abortion in the changing pattern of family planning in the Netherlands. In: Moors, H.G., Cliquet, R.L., Dooghe, G., van de Kaa, D.J. (eds) Population and Family in the Low Countries. Publications of the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute (N.I.D.I.) and the Population and Family Study Centre (C.B.G.S.), vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4387-5_7

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