She had seen women die after self-induced abortions without open and legal medical assistance.

Complications have been reported from attempts to use the oil for self-induced abortion.

Women have always been able to attempt crude and dangerous self-induced abortions.

Poor and marginalized women may instead turn to unsafe, self-induced abortions.

The practice of self-induced abortion by various means has long been recorded in the United States.

He also estimated that around 5,000 rape victims had performed self-induced abortions.

Prop 4 may force these teens to delay medical care, turn to self-induced abortions, or consider suicide.

"We're seeing a higher suicide rate, botched self-induced abortions and babies thrown in the garbage."

Self-induced abortion is easier to accomplish in the earliest stages of pregnancy (the first eight weeks from the last menstrual period).

There are a number of anecdotally recorded and disseminated methods of performing a self-induced abortion.

Mississippi classifies self-induced abortions as deaths which affect the public interest, requiring that physicians report them to the local medical examiner.

One of Rainilaiarivony's daughters died in her twenties following a self-induced abortion, and the rest married and lived undistinguished lives.

Muscio tells the stories of the three abortions she has had during her lifetime: two clinical abortions and one self-induced abortion.

Misoprostol is used for self-induced abortions in Brazil, where black market prices exceed US $100 per dose.

By 1970, stories of poor women dying from self-induced abortions had persuaded several states, including New York and Washington, to legalize abortion.

There, a young mother who lived in a tenament died of a self-induced abortion in Mrs. Sanger's arms.

The study suggested that the number of women dying as a result of self-induced abortions exceeded those resulting from abortions performed by another person.

Opponents told of girls who could not tell their parents of their pregnancies and who were injured in illegal or self-induced abortions.

That will only increase the chance that they will resort to illegal or self-induced abortions or delay the procedure, making it more dangerous.

A self-induced abortion (or self-induced miscarriage) is an abortion performed by the pregnant woman herself outside the recognized medical system.

The law, drawn to promote population growth in this country of 23 million, was hated by most women here, some of whom resorted to dangerous self-induced abortions.

In the days before Roe, thousands of women lost their lives and more were subjected to physical and emotional scars from back alley and self-induced abortions.

Their intent was to perform a self-induced abortion, using surgical instruments and a textbook, which Dixon had obtained from a co-worker at the Mansfield school.

Self-induced abortion, by means of abortive herbs, abdominal massages, and so forth, is advocated as being highly preferable to clinical abortions.

In 1914, prompted by suffering she witnessed due to frequent pregnancies and self-induced abortions, she started a monthly newsletter, The Woman Rebel.