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Legal abortion in Eastern Europe.
Published in JAMA
Data on legal abortion in Eastern Europe, based mainly on materials presented at the 1960 International Conference on Abortion, Problems and Abortion Control, held in Rostock-Warnemunde, East Germany, are discussed. In most countries of Eastern Europe, since 1955, abortion on demand of the mother or because of social indications has been legalized....
[Geographic and social factors that affect the age of puberty].
Published in Biotypologie
1866 girls aged 11-15 1/2 years in Northwest Slovakia were interviewed at their schools concerning the age at menarche, number of siblings, and altitude of their residence. 518 of the girls had undergone menarche. An angular transformation of the data was carried out, and an analysis of the variance of percentages of young girls who had attained pu...
[Indications for sterilization of men].
Published in Ceskoslovenská gynekologie
To date, Czechoslovakia has had a fairly lenient attitude toward the sterilization of women; only recently has it been applied to men as well. There are cases where a serious genetic disease prevents a couple from bearing children. In other cases it is the woman's state of health or her inability or extreme difficulty in rearing a child (blindness,...
[Artificial pregnancy interruption and birth rate].
Published in Ceskoslovenská gynekologie
A graph was constructed to show curves of legal and illegal interruptions of pregnancy (IPs) and natality in the years 1958-1969 in Czechoslovakia. In the years 1962-1964, the curve of legal IP declined quite a bit, while natality increased substantially and illegal IP increased slightly during the same period. This is explained by the fact that in...
[Evaluation of sequellae and possibilities of pregnancy interruption by women who experienced it].
Published in Ceskoslovenská gynekologie
The constantly increasing number of interruptions of pregnancy (IPs) forces consideration of both the healthful aspects and the social implications. A survey done on women who have had an IP showed that there is insufficient education about contraceptives. Reasons for IP are mostly social, e.g., among students the desire to finish their studies. Mo...
[Changes in the age-group structure and parity of women in the course of 15 years and comparison of the duration of labo...
Published in Bratislavské lekárske listy
From 1954 to 1968 there were 29,188 deliveries at the II. Gynecologic-obstetrics Hospital in Bratislava. During separate 5-year periods a change came about in the age-group structure, chiefly in the parity. The most striking decrease is that of the frequency of women who delivered more than 2 children. Comparing the duration of deliveries in the ye...
Legalized abortion in Czechoslovakia.
Published in Medical gynaecology, andrology, and sociology
A law legalizing abortion was passed nearly 20 years ago in Czechosl ovakia. The law aimed to give women the freedom to decide for themselves whether they want to be pregnant and to decrease the dangers of illegal abortion. The law resulted in a decreased number of abortions and of complications and deaths associated with abortion. Fertility in the...
The fertility response to abortion reform in Eastern Europe: demographic and economic implications.
Published in The American economist
This preliminary appraisal examines the extent to which abortion reform by itself explains the abruptness of the decline and the ensuing uniformly low level of all important fertility indicators for the Eastern European countries over the last 15 years. The fertility pattern of these countries has changed from the upper to the very lower end of the...
Research in marriage reproduction (1970).
Published in Demosta
Marriage reproduction in Czechoslovakia was investigated between May and July 1970. The sample included 2994 married women in the 15-54 age group. The average age of women in the sample was 32.9 years. The age of the women was the same regardless of whether they were economically active or in the household. The duration of married life of the women...
