Abortion

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Reviewed June 2009

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Title:   Pregnancy options
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   For people who have planned and wanted a child, the news of pregnancy is wonderful. For some young people however, the news can come as a shock.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Pregnancy - options
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   For people who have planned and wanted a child, the news of pregnancy is wonderful. For some young people however, the news can come as a shock.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Paracervical local anaesthesia for cervical dilatation and uterine intervention
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Paracervical block involves injection of local anaesthetic around the cervix to numb nearby nerves. Cervical dilatation and uterine interventions (such as hysteroscopies, endometrial biopsies, fractional curettage, and suction terminations) can be perfo...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Teenage pregnancy
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Becoming pregnant as an adolescent, especially if the pregnancy is not wanted, can put enormous stress on young women and their families.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Abortion services in Victoria
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Most Victorian abortion service providers are located in Melbourne but there are clinics in rural Victoria. Costs vary between clinics. Medicare covers a portion of the cost. Some clinics provide discounted fees to students, health care card holders and others.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   About abortion (termination of pregnancy)
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Finding out you are pregnant can bring up many different emotions, especially if it was not planned. Each woman will feel different. Some women feel confused and scared; others numb and shocked, whereas others feel happy and excited. All these feelings are normal and okay. Your feelings will probably also change while you are thinking about your options. To find out more about abortion, check out this fact sheet.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Options during pregnancy
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Discovering you are pregnant can result in a range of feelings. It is important to get some support and advice. This fact sheet contains information on the options available to you when you are pregnant.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Teenage pregnancy: Student factsheet
Publisher:   Women's Health Queensland Wide Inc
Description:   For a teenage girl, the consequences of a pregnancy differ in the short and long term, depending on whether she chooses abortion, parenting or adoption.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Abortion procedures
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Abortion is a safe surgical or medical procedure. Complications of abortion can include infection and excessive bleeding. Suction aspiration is the most common procedure for first trimester abortions. RU486 (mifepristone) or the abortion pill is also used to induce a miscarriage.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Abortion in Australia
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Abortion is a common surgical procedure in Australia. In 1990 an estimated 23 per cent of all known pregnancies in Australia were terminated. Abortion laws are different in each Australian state and territory.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Abortion - emotional issues
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Abortion is a common procedure that raises some emotional issues. A major study found most women who have an abortion don't suffer psychological or emotional problems, or feel emotions such as guilt, grief or shame.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Abortion - counselling options
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Abortion counselling is generally included as part of the abortion process. Abortion counselling should include advice, information, support, education and therapy. However not all counselling is unbiased in Australia.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Topical issues - Abortion
Publisher:   Women's Health Victoria (WHV)
Description:   Provides information on the topical issue of abortion in Victoria
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Teenage pregnancy
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Teenage pregnancy rates have fallen as sex education and improved access to contraception has improved. Five per cent of Australian children are born to women aged 19 years and under. Teenage women have a higher complication rate during pregnancy and childbirth than older women.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Pain control in first trimester surgical abortion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Multiple methods of pain control in first trimester surgical abortion at less than 14 weeks gestational age using electric or manual suction aspiration are available, and appear both safe and effective.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Surgical versus medical methods for second trimester induced abortion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   We did computer searches to find studies that compared any operation to any medicine used for abortion at this stage of pregnancy. We wrote to researchers and looked through book chapters and other articles to find more studies....
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Pregnancy Loss
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information about pregnancy loss, including miscarriage, foetal death and abortion.
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Antibiotics for incomplete abortion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Incomplete abortions cause many complications and the deaths of tens of thousands of women each year. Women who seek health care after an incomplete abortion usually come for problems from bleeding too much or infection. Antibiotics are generally given ...
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Pregnancy - your options
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   If you are pregnant you have choices on whether to continue the pregnancy. Unplanned pregnancies are very common. Unplanned is not always unwanted and many people choose to become parents despite the lack of planning; others choose abortion (termination), foster care or adoption.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Abortion
Publisher:   Better Health Channel (BHC),Women's Health Victoria (WHV)
Description:   Provides information resources and available services about abortion
Date:   Sep 2006
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