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induced abortion

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in·duced abortion (n-dst)
n.
Abortion caused intentionally by the administration of drugs or by mechanical means.

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First, family planning workers of the two townships agreed to contact and invite the 20 women who we knew had experienced induced abortion sometime in the previous three years based on the WHO baseline survey to participate in this study.
But if the pill is the culprit in all five cases, its mortality rate will be under I per 100,000 women, a number comparable to that for induced abortion overall, which was .
9,10) Totally ignored is the definitive work by Joel Brind, whose comprehensive and meticulous meta-analysis of all abortion/breast cancer studies performed up to 1996 showed that induced abortion increased the risk of breast cancer by 30% on average, and that abortion before the first full-term pregnancy had a 50% increased risk.
 
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