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- Title
In Brief.
- Authors
Hollander, Dore
- Abstract
This article reports developments related to the field of family planning. Although most Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or some circumstances (83 percent), they are evenly split in their opinions about whether mifepristone, commonly called the abortion pill, should be made available in the United States (43 percent in favor and 44 percent opposed), according to results of a July 1996 Gallup poll. In November and December 1995, in the wake of reports that oral contraceptives containing third-generation progestogens were associated with twice the risk of venous thromboembolism as other pill formulations, sales of oral contraceptives in Norway declined by 17 percent. Sales of the only third-generation pill available dropped by 70 percent as an estimated 45,000 women switched to a different pill or stopped using oral contraceptives. In all, more than 25,000 of the roughly 160,000-170,000 pill users in Norway discontinued the method. Preliminary data suggest no significant increase in the total number of abortions associated with the sudden massive pill discontinuation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BIRTH control; ABORTION; MIFEPRISTONE; ORAL contraceptives; THROMBOEMBOLISM
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 2, p51
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article