"interruption of pregnancy" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is most commonly used when discussing medical treatments or procedures, such as in the sentence, "The doctor advised that an interruption of pregnancy was the best option for her health."
"The hierarchy of the Catholic Church has had a very strong influence in public policy," said Claudia Dides, a spokeswoman for the Movement for the Legal Interruption of Pregnancy.
As a general statement, the patients should be made aware that interruption of pregnancy by itself does not seem to improve outcome of patients [8].
Our considerations will be restricted to those women who choose to continue their pregnancy, and all the issues related to voluntary interruption of pregnancy will not be included.
As interruption of pregnancy give access to therapies as in a non pregnant woman, the multidisciplinary team have to discuss differences with the patients in case of continuation of the pregnancy.
A confident identification of the individual tumor types based on imaging is almost impossible, and therefore, in countries in which a legal medical interruption of pregnancy is possible, this diagnosis may lead to a high rate of legal abortions [44].
First-term placental tissues were obtained from abortions following voluntary interruption of pregnancy at CHUM Hôpital Saint-Luc (Montreal, Canada).
The latter is especially noteworthy, since preterm interruption of pregnancies is a substantial and growing cause of preterm delivery in Brazil [ 14].
The causes for this increase in preterm births are not clearly elicited yet, but it is possible that interruption of pregnancies may have played an important role, as the proportion of cesarean sections doubled between 1982 and 2004 [ 21, 22].
What we are proposing, if we recognise the high neonatal morbidity in late preterm infants, is changing the paradigm of interruption of pregnancies reaching 34 weeks, based on the traditional belief that these infants are as physiologically and metabolically mature as term newborns.
Thirteen women had voluntary interruptions of pregnancy, 12 had spontaneous abortions, one had therapeutic abortion, and three were lost to follow-up soon after the first contact with the Centre.
The improvement in access to prenatal care, suggests that the expansion in access may be enabling the identification of pregnancies of fetuses at a high risk of antepartum death [ 36, 43] and the interruption of a pregnancy can increase their chance of survival, as there is neonatal care of high quality to prevent these possible deaths.
