Complications of Unsafe and Self-Managed Abortion
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- 12 March 2020
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 382 (11), 1029-1040
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1908412
Abstract
As U.S. abortion laws become more restrictive, women will end pregnancies without clinical supervision. Clinicians must recognize the normal course of self-managed, medication-induced abortion and its rare complications, as well as the complications of unsafe methods.Keywords
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