Abortion Care

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction Sam Rowlands; 1. An historical perspective James Drife; 2. Ethics Sadie Regmi and John Harris; 3. Epidemiology Wendy Macdowall and Kaye Wellings; 4. Psychosocial factors in women requesting abortion Anneli Kero; 5. Support and counselling Joanna Brien and Lisa Hallgarten; 6. Ultrasound scanning in early pregnancy Emeka Oloto and Sharon Moses; 7. Early medical abortion Caroline de Costa and Michael Carrette; 8. Vacuum aspiration Pascale Roblin; 9. Medical abortion after nine weeks Joyce Chai and Pak Chung Ho; 10. Dilatation and evacuation Patricia A. Lohr and Richard Lyus; 11. Pain control Ellen Wiebe and Regina-Maria Renner; 12. Follow-up Sharon Cameron; 13. Contraception after abortion Oskari Heikinheimo, Satu Suhonen and Pekka Lähteenmäki; 14. Complications and safety Rodica Comendant, Stelian Hodorogea and Irina Sagaidac; 15. Women with medical problems Kate Paterson and Helgi Johannsson; 16. Feticide Emeka Oloto; 17. Fetal anomaly Joanna Speedie, Richard Lyus and Stephen C. Robson; 18. Longer-term outcomes in women requesting abortion Sam Rowlands; 19. Myths and misinformation Toni Belfield; 20. Stigma and issues of conscience Kelly R. Culwell and Caitlin Gerdts; 21. More than one abortion Sam Rowlands, Kelly Cleland and James Trussell; 22. Factors associated with second trimester abortion Roger Ingham; 23. Staff perspectives Edna Astbury-Ward; 24. Mid-level providers Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson and Helena Kopp Kallner; 25. Telemedicine Ellen Wiebe and Daniel Grossman; 26. Decriminalising abortion – the Australian experience Kerry Petersen; 27. Abortion in international human rights law Joanna N. Erdman; Appendix: list of useful organisations; Index.