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  • Title: Legal abortion in Britain.
    Journal: IPPF Med Bull; 1973 Feb; 7(1):3. PubMed ID: 12258097.
    Abstract:
    In November 1972, the IPPF Europe Region published a comprehensive document entitled "Legal Abortion in Britain," summarizing much of the considerable volume of numerical data on the subject which has emerged since abortion was legalized in Britain on April 27, 1968. The aspects treated include regional variations in the incidence of National Health Service (NHS) and private abortions for women resident in Britain, and for nonresidents by country of origin. Women having abortions are analyzed by marital status, age, parity, social class, grounds, gestation period, technique, duration of stay, and concurrent sterilization. Available data on abortion complications (including death) are analyzed by technique (in particular, whether sterilization was also performed), gestation period, and age. Finally, some attempt is made to discern any trend in the incidence of illegal abortion. Britain has a significant legal abortion private sector, so permitting relatively large numbers of abortions on foreign women from Western Europe, where abortion remains practically illegal. The incidence of NHS abortions is characterized by wide regional differences, and includes a striking proportion of married women sterilized at the time of abortion. Mortality is largely confined to abortion with sterilization, and to second trimester abortion, while that attributed to first trimester aspiration of dilatation and curettage, without sterilization, is about 3/100,000 abortions, fully consistent with the more extensive Eastern European data. Copies of "Legal Abortion in Britain" are available in English only, price .25 pounds (excluding postage), from the IPPF Europe Regional Office, 64 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9SJ, Britain.
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