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It’s time to lift the restrictions on medical abortion in Australia – Professor Caroline de Costa

By J Pope
In Crime and law, Pregnancy choices, Reproductive health
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The Conversation, April 1, 2019 6.13am AEDT Over the past thirteen years, many Australian women have used the drug mifepristone (RU486) to bring about a medical abortion. Rather than undergoing a surgical abortion in a clinic or hospital operating theatre, a medical abortion is induced by taking drugs prescribed by a doctor. But while mifepristone has been available in Australia since 2006, only...

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Safety of Medical Abortion Provided Through Telemedicine Compared With in Person

By J Pope
In Gynaecology & andrology, Pregnancy choices, Reproductive health
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Obstetrics & Gynecology, September 05, 2017 doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000002212 ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: To compare the proportion of medical abortions with a clinically significant adverse event among telemedicine and in-person patients at a clinic system in Iowa during the first 7 years of the service. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study. We analyzed data on clinically significant...

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