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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Abortion, Human experimentation, Oaths of medicine, Sex-selective abortion, Hippocratic Oath, Norma McCorvey, Miscarriage, Do not resuscitate, History of abortion, Pro-life, Scientology and abortion, Declaration of Helsinki, Human subject research, History of abortion law debate, Beginning of human personhood, Unsafe abortion, Porton Down, Wrongful birth, Institutional review board, Late-term abortion, Humanzee, Nurse-client relationship, Patient advocacy, Standard of care, Feticide, Self-induced abortion, Guatemala syphilis experiment, Bullying in nursing, Ipas, Oath of Asaph, Alexis St. Martin, Wrongful life, Language deprivation experiments, Abortion doping, Wrongful abortion, Therapeutic abortion, Ronald Maddison, Abortion clinic, Vipeholm experiments, Biologue, Rawalpindi experiments, Selective reduction, Physician's Oath, Pregnancy options counseling, Live Free or Die, Acres of Skin, Heartaches, Oath of the Hindu physician, Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand, Nightingale Pledge, Oath of Maimonides, Abortion exceptionalism, Veterinarian's Oath, Ludvig Nessa, Handbook on Abortion, Criminal Abortion. Excerpt: Abortion is technically defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo before fetal viability; however, the term may be defined more broadly to include any termination of pregnancy before birth. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced. The term abortion most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human rather than non-human pregnancy. Abortion, when induced in the developed world in jurisdictions where the procedure is legal, is among the safest procedures in medicine. However, unsafe abortions (those performed by persons without proper training or outside ...
