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Preventing unintended pregnancy would save the public over 5 billion dollars per year in short-term medical costs. [21] Savings in long-term costs and in other areas would be much larger. [21] By another estimate, the direct medical costs of unintended pregnancies, not including infant medical care, was $5 billion in 2002. [73]
A report by the American Psychological Association concluded that a woman's first abortion is not a threat to mental health when carried out in the first trimester, with such women no more likely to have mental-health problems than those carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term; the mental-health outcome of a woman's second or greater abortion is ...
In order for an abortion to be legal, doctors need to show that continuing the pregnancy could threaten the physical or mental health of the mother. In a recent case, two doctors were caught on camera offering a sex-selective abortion but the Director of Public Prosecution deemed it not in the public interest to proceed with the prosecution ...
Reproductive coercion is considered a serious public health issue. [2] [3] Negative outcomes include poor mental health, unintended pregnancy, unwanted abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases. [5] Unwanted pregnancy has negative effects on families and children. [9]
The following is a partial list of definitions as stated by obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias: . Major OB/GYN textbooks. The National Center for Health Statistics defines an "abortus" as "[a] fetus or embryo removed or expelled from the uterus during the first half of gestation—20 weeks or less, or in the absence of accurate dating criteria, born ...
The prevalence of imposed paternity is difficult to measure. Research for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011 found that approximately 10.4% (or an estimated 11.7 million) of men in the United States reported ever having an intimate partner who tried to get pregnant when they did not want to or tried to stop them from using birth control. [6]
The hip-hop producer Metro Boomin (whose legal name is Leland Wayne) is being sued by a woman who claims he drugged and raped her, and this sexual assault allegedly resulted in an unwanted pregnancy.
When it does appear, it is entailed in concerns about male property rights, preservation of social order, and the duty to produce fit citizens for the state or community. The harshest penalties were generally reserved for a woman who procured an abortion against her husband's wishes, and for slaves who produced abortion in a woman of high status.