UK "pill scare" led to abortion increase

• 20 April 1996
• journal article
• Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
• Vol. 347  (9008) , 1109
• https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(96)90303-7

Abstract

Keywords

• ABORTION RATE--CHANGES
• ABORTION, INDUCED
• CONTRACEPTION
• CONTRACEPTION TERMINATION
• CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS
• CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE
• CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, PROGESTIN
• CONTRACEPTIVE METHOD SWITCHING
• CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS--SIDE EFFECTS
• CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE
• DESOGESTREL
• DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
• DISEASES
• EMBOLISM
• EUROPE
• FAMILY PLANNING
• FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION
• GESTODENE
• NORTHERN EUROPE
• ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES--SIDE EFFECTS