Abstract
Second-trimester abortion is responsible for a disproportionate share of adverse experiences associated with pregnancy termination. In the United States during 1972–1977, abortions performed at 13 weeks’ gestation or later accounted for 11% of all legal abortions, while causing an estimated two-thirds of all major complications and over one-half of all known abortion-related fatalities. Because of these circumstances, it is important to review the numbers and trends of second-trimester abortions as they are performed throughout the world, the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the women obtaining them, and the methods used to perform them by medical practitioners in different locales.
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Tietze, C. (1981). Second-Trimester Abortion: A Global View. In: Berger, G.S., Brenner, W.E., Keith, L.G. (eds) Second-Trimester Abortion. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8293-2_1
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