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Fundal massage, also called uterine massage, is a technique used to reduce bleeding and cramping of the uterus after childbirth or after an abortion.As the uterus returns to its nonpregnant size, its muscles contract strongly, which can cause pain.
The Christian Heritage Party of Canada claims to be Canada's only stated anti-abortion federal political party and supports a total abortion ban in Canada. [99] [100] However, they never had a member elected to parliament and won about only 0.05% of the vote in the 2021 Canadian federal election.
Birthright International is an international organization of crisis pregnancy centers.It offers a range of services, to an estimated 10 million women, [1] designed to "help support a woman's desire not to have an abortion," including referrals to legal, medical and psychological services, as well as a range of community support assistance such as financial aid.
Aid Access is a nonprofit organization that provides access to medication abortion by mail to the United States and worldwide. It describes its work as a harm reduction strategy designed to provide safe access to mifepristone and misoprostol for those able to become pregnant in the United States who may not otherwise have access to abortion or miscarriage management services. [2]
There are two commonly used methods of measuring the incidence of abortion: Abortion rate – number of abortions annually per 1,000 women between 15 and 44 years of age; [153] some sources use a range of 15–49. Abortion percentage – number of abortions out of 100 known pregnancies; pregnancies include live births, abortions, and miscarriages.
In 2003, CARAL published a major study of access to abortion in Canada. [6] The study found that only one hospital in six performs abortions and that ready access to abortion is found mainly in large cities and in a narrow strip of more densely populated land near the U.S. border. [6]
Since Roe was overturned, 14 states have enacted near-total bans on abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit that tracks the data and supports access to abortions.
The first family planning clinic ever established in Great Britain, the Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control [5] was established by British author, birth control campaigner and women's rights activist Marie Stopes with her husband Humphrey Verdon Roe in March 1921 and operated virtually uninterrupted until 1975 on the same premises at number 61, Marlborough Road in Holloway, North ...