Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 13, Issue 26 , Pages 44-53 , November 2005

Abortion Practice in the Northeast Caribbean: “Just write down stomach pain”

  • Gail Pheterson

      Affiliations

    • Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
    • ,
  • Yamila Azize

      Affiliations

    • Senior Researcher, Director, Saludpromujer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

References 

  1. Pheterson GI in collaboration with Yamila Azize. Safe Illegal Abortion: An Inter-Island study in the Northeast Caribbean. A Working Paper of the Caribbean Initiative on Abortion and Contraception. In English, Spanish and French at 〈www.saludpromujer.org〉.
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  3. Cook RJ, Dickens BM. Issues in Reproductive Health Law in the Commonwealth. London: Commonwealth Secretariat; 1986;
  4. Costa SH, Vessey MP. Misoprostol and illegal abortion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lancet. 1993;341:1258–1261
  5. Special Issue Medical Abortion. Journal of the American Medical Women's Association. 2000;55(3 Supplement):
  6. Reproductive Health Technologies Project and Gynuity Health Projects. Consensus Statement: Instructions for Use – Abortion Induction with Misoprostol in Pregnancies up to 9 Weeks LMP. Expert Meeting on Misoprostol, Washington DC. 28 July 2003.
  7. Le Cahiers de Formation Médical Continu. Obstétrique-Gynécologie. Université de Montréal. 16 May 2001.
  8. Begum FS. Saving lives with menstrual regulation. Planned Parenthood. 1993;30–31

PII: S0968-8080(05)26201-8

doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(05)26201-8

Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 13, Issue 26 , Pages 44-53 , November 2005

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