He argued, therefore, that any future evaluation of abortion law would have to answer three questions: "First: Does the law promote reduction in abortion deaths and abortion-connected illness?
Prior to joining Columbia's Mailman School, Dr. Elul was a program associate at the Population Council in New York and New Delhi where she was responsible for clinical, social science, and community-based research and evaluation on abortion and other reproductive health issues in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Adolescents' perceptions are likely to be influenced by the moral evaluations of abortion articulated by peers, the media, family, educators, or by religious leaders [ 2, 3].
Finally, we recommend improvements in the resources and infrastructure for evaluation of safe abortion policies and programs.
In total, 729 women were not available for evaluation because of abortion (n = 164), stillbirth (n = 42), loss to follow-up (including outmigration; n = 361), and no urine arsenic concentration measurement at GW8 or GW30 (n = 162).
Addressing illegal abortions will require effective monitoring and evaluation of designated termination of pregnancy services, data capturing of illegal abortions, as well as the development of a national education strategy on termination of pregnancy.
Cytogenetic evaluation of sporadic spontaneous abortions has shown that 50 70% are chromosomally abnormal [ 3, 4].
The evaluation study of pilot medical abortion services carried out by the Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities in 2009, showed that only 15% of the 1,093 married women of reproductive age heard about medical abortion [ 14].
Therefore, poFUT1, together with LIF, may be a novel marker of threatened abortion and may be useful for the evaluation of embryonic development.
Requiring a follow-up visit with ultrasound evaluation to confirm completion after medication abortion can be a barrier to providing the service.
This paper proposes a new conceptual framework for evaluation of the different components of abortion-related programs, addressing both the demand for and supply of safe services.
