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Science 26 March 1982:
Vol. 215. no. 4540, pp. 1586 - 1590
DOI: 10.1126/science.7071579
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Science, Vol 215, Issue 4540, 1586-1590
Copyright © 1982 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Legal abortion: the public health record

W Cates Jr

The increasing availability and utilization of legal abortion in the United States has several important effects on public health in the 1970's. It reduced deaths and surgical complications among women of childbearing age; it made possible the development of safer surgical procedures for pregnancy termination; and it increased the provision of low-cost outpatient gynecologic services. There is some concern about potential adverse outcomes in future desired pregnancies and possibly higher risks of breast cancer in certain women.


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