Abortion

More maternal deaths could be avoided if procedure was performed earlier

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 25th, 2004

Deaths related to legal abortion are very rare in the U.S., but women whose abortions are performed at or before 8 weeks of pregnancy are significantly less likely to die of abortion-related causes than are women with abortions performed after that time, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.

They note that the annual death rate from legal abortion is extremely low. For the year 1996, for example, the number of deaths related to legal abortion in the U.S. had dropped to seven out of nearly 1.2 million abortion procedures performed that year.

Nevertheless, according to their study in the April 2004 issue of...

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (2004-04-25)

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