"Incidence : 20% of all pregnancies
40% of all pregnacies are unwanted. Half of these are aborted.
INDICATIONS
A. Contraceptive failure: commonest reason
B.Therapeutic abortion:
a) Maternal risk by continuing pregnancy:
- severe Cardiovascular disease
- renal failure
- severe diabetes
- cancer
b) Fetus has a perinatal fatal medical condition:
- anencephaly
- chromosomal abnormalities inconsistent with life
- Meckel Gruber syndrome
- Potters syndrome with BRA
c) Risk that child would be born handicapped:
- Downs syndrome
- Trisomy 18
- Muscular dystrophy
- Cystic fibrosis
- Tay- sachs
C: Social:
- Abortions done to preserve the mental health of the mother