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An abortifacient effective in both the first and second trimesters of pregnancy.


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   Induced Abortion   


Intentional removal of a fetus from the uterus by any of a number of techniques.
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 Pharmacologic Action
  • Nonsteroidal Abortifacient Agent
    Non-steroidal chemical compounds with abortifacient activity.
  • Oxytocic
    Drugs that stimulate contraction of the myometrium. They are used to induce labor, obstetric at term, to prevent or control postpartum or postabortion hemorrhage, and to assess fetal status in high risk pregnancies. They may also be used alone or with other drugs to induce abortions. Oxytocics used clinically include the neurohypophyseal hormone Oxytocin and certain prostaglandins and ergot alkaloids.





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Medication Abortion and Family Physicians’ Scope of Practice
Since the founding of family medicine, family physicians have repeatedly defended its scope of practice. The right to provide maternity care, colonoscopy, and surgical procedures has been disputed and defended in many forums. Medication abortion, an office-based service that many family physicians would like to offer to women with unintended pregnancies, is a new addition to this list of contested procedures. Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended; of these, approximately half end in abortion. Approximately 35% of American women have an abortion at some point in their lives
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Advanced practice clinicians' interest in providing medical abortion: results of a California survey
California's Reproductive Health Privacy Act, which became law in January 2003, clarified that advanced practice clinicians could legally provide medical abortion. Little is known about the characteristics associated with nonphysician clinicians' interest in receiving medical abortion training or their perceptions of barriers to medical abortion provision.
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Violence and abortions: What's a doctor to do?
Before 1989, in hospitals across Canada, groups of 3 physicians would meet once a week to read and consider stories of failure and remorse. No legal abortion could be performed in this country without such a committee's approval. For years I spent Friday mornings with a gynecologist and a psychiatrist in a small room at our downtown Toronto hospital, reviewing pleas for care from women whose histories were marked by sadness more than by irresponsibility.
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