Abortion

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Reviewed May 2008

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Title:   Abortion services in Victoria
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Most Victorian abortion service providers are located in Melbourne. Some can provide women with same day service'. Costs vary from one clinic to the next. Some provide discounted fees to students, health care card holders and those experiencing financial difficulty.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   About abortion (termination of pregnancy)
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Finding out you are pregnant can bring up many different emotions, especially if it was not planned. Each woman will feel different. Some women feel confused and scared; others numb and shocked, whereas others feel happy and excited. All these feelings are normal and okay. Your feelings will probably also change while you are thinking about your options. To find out more about abortion, check out this fact sheet.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Options during pregnancy
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Discovering you are pregnant can result in a range of feelings. It is important to get some support and advice. This fact sheet contains information on the options available to you when you are pregnant.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Teenage pregnancy: Student factsheet
Publisher:   Women's Health Queensland Wide Inc
Description:   For a teenage girl, the consequences of a pregnancy differ in the short and long term, depending on whether she chooses abortion, parenting or adoption.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Abortion - counselling options
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Counselling is generally included as part of the abortion process in all Australian States and Territories. 'Counselling' is an umbrella term, which includes advice, information, support, education and therapy. Ideally, counselling offers a woman a non-judgemental opportunity to work through her feelings.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Pregnancy options
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   For people who have planned and wanted a child, the news of pregnancy is wonderful. For some young people however, the news can come as a shock.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Pregnancy - options
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   For people who have planned and wanted a child, the news of pregnancy is wonderful. For some young people however, the news can come as a shock.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Topical issues - Abortion
Publisher:   Women's Health Victoria (WHV)
Description:   Provides information on the topical issue of abortion in Victoria
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Teenage pregnancy
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Sex education and improved access to contraception has reduced the rate of teenage pregnancy. Currently, just five per cent of Australian children are born to women aged 19 years and under. Teenage women have a higher complication rate during pregnancy and childbirth than older women.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Surgical versus medical methods for second trimester induced abortion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   We did computer searches to find studies that compared any operation to any medicine used for abortion at this stage of pregnancy. We wrote to researchers and looked through book chapters and other articles to find more studies....
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Pregnancy Loss
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information about pregnancy loss, including miscarriage, foetal death and abortion.
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Antibiotics for incomplete abortion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Incomplete abortions cause many complications and the deaths of tens of thousands of women each year. Women who seek health care after an incomplete abortion usually come for problems from bleeding too much or infection. Antibiotics are generally given ...
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Pregnancy - your options
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Unplanned pregnancies are very common. It's estimated that there are around 200,000 unplanned pregnancies in Australia every year. Unplanned is not always unwanted and many people choose to become parents despite the lack of planning; others choose abortion, foster care or adoption.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Abortion procedures
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Abortion is a safe surgical procedure. Undergoing an abortion is 10 times safer than childbirth. However, all surgery carries risk, and complications of abortion can include infection and excessive bleeding. Suction aspiration is the most common procedure for first trimester abortions.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Abortion in Australia
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Most Australians support the idea of safe and legal abortions. Around 80,000 women undergo abortion every year, making it one of Australia's most common surgical procedures. Our abortion rate is comparatively low by international standards.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Abortion - emotional issues
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Most women who have an abortion don't suffer any subsequent psychological or emotional problems, as long as the decision was theirs. It's not true that all women who undergo abortion experience guilt, grief and shame. The genuine experiences of women remain under-reported because of lingering social stigma.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Abortion - Q & A
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   These questions on Abortion were posted by visitors to the Better Health Channel and answered by a panel of experts, which includes general practitioners, nutritionists, physical activity professionals and other health and medical specialists.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Teenage pregnancy
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Becoming pregnant as an adolescent, especially if the pregnancy is not wanted, can put enormous stress on young women and their families.
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Abortion
Publisher:   Better Health Channel (BHC),Women's Health Victoria (WHV)
Description:   Provides information resources and available services about abortion
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Use of routinely collected national data sets for reporting on induced abortion in Australia
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report examines the utility of the available routinely collected national data sources for enumerating induced abortion in Australia. It outlines a methodology for estimating the number of induced abortions in Australia using the Medicare data and the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) data.
Date:   Dec 2005
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