Late-term Abortion

Epner, Janet E. Gans; Jonas, Harry S.; Seckinger, Daniel

doi:10.1001/jama.280.8.724

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“…Since an ultrasound test, followed by an induced abortion, is believed to be the primary channel through which parents exercise control over the sex of their births in India during our sample period (Bhalotra and Cochrane (2010)), and these technologies are most effective and safest during the first or second trimesters of birth (Epner et al (1998)), district-level 14 The caste categories in DLHS-2 are Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Class (OBC), and general caste. SCs, STs, and OBCs have been recognized as socioeconomically disadvantaged by the Indian Constitution and are beneficiaries of caste-based affirmative action.…”

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Women’s Worth: Trade, Female Income, and Fertility in India

Anukriti

Kumler²

2019

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to the 1991 trade reform. For low socioeconomic status women, the tariff cuts increased fertility and improved the sex ratio at birth and the relative survival rate for girls. On the contrary, fertility decreased and the sex ratio at birth and the relative survival rate for girls worsened among high-status families more exposed to the tariff cuts. Moreover, relative female income increased (decreased) for lower-caste (upper-caste) women.

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Women’s Worth: Trade, Female Income, and Fertility in India

Anukriti

Kumler²

2019

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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“…By recent convention, procedures performed before 13 menstrual weeks are called suction or vacuum curettage, whereas similar procedures carried out after 13 weeks are described as dilation and evacuation (D&E). 9 Antibiotics are commonly used. 10 An extensive meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials found marked reduction in postabortal infection with the use of antibiotics 11 Tetracycline or its analogues, doxycycline and minocycline, are recommended because of their broad spectrum of antimicrobial effect and oral absorption.…”

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Methods for Induced Abortion

Stubblefield

Carr-Ellis

Borgatta

2004

Obstetrics & Gynecology

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We describe present methods for induced abortion used in the United States. The most common procedure is first-trimester vacuum curettage. Analgesia is usually provided with a paracervical block and is not completely effective. Pretreatment with nonsteroidal analgesics and conscious sedation augment analgesia but only to a modest extent. Cervical dilation is accomplished with conventional tapered dilators, hygroscopic dilators, or misoprostol. Manual vacuum curettage is as safe and effective as the electric uterine aspirator for procedures through 10 weeks of gestation. Common complications and their management are presented. Early abortion with mifepristone/misoprostol combinations is replacing some surgical abortions. Two mifepristone/misoprostol regimens are used. The rare serious complications of medical abortion are described. Twelve percent of abortions are performed in the second trimester, the majority of these by dilation and evacuation (D&E) after laminaria dilation of the cervix. Uterine evacuation is accomplished with heavy ovum forceps augmented by 14-16 mm vacuum cannula systems. Cervical injection of dilute vasopressin reduces blood loss. Operative ultrasonography is reported to reduce perforation risk of D&E. Dilation and evacuation procedures have evolved to include intact D&E and combination methods for more advanced gestations. Vaginal misoprostol is as effective as dinoprostone for second-trimester labor-induction abortion and appears to be replacing older methods. Mifepristone/misoprostol combinations appear more effective than misoprostol alone. Uterine rupture has been reported in women with uterine scars with misoprostol abortion in the second trimester. Fetal intracardiac injection to reduce multiple pregnancies or selectively abort an anomalous twin is accepted therapy. Outcomes for the remaining pregnancy have improved with experience.

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“…Despite Ladli's introduction in August 2005, I do not exclude births that took place during September-December 2005 since they were conceived before its announcement. The only way Ladli could have affected fertility or the sex ratios in 2005 is if it decreased the likelihood of conception or caused women that were in the first six months of their pregnancy (when SDT is most effective and safest(Epner et al (1998))) in August 2005 to selectively abort during September-December 2005. Any such forgone conceptions or aborted pregnancies, if carried to term, would have resulted in births only next year and since I exclude 2006 from my sample period, ignoring them is not a concern for my empirical strategy.39 DLHS-3 did not collect birth or survival information for children born before January 1, 2004, making it impossible to…”

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Financial Incentives and the Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-Off

Anukriti

2018

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Can financial incentives resolve the fertility-sex ratio trade-off faced by countries with persistent son preference and easy access to sex-selection technology? An Indian program, Devi Rupak, that seeks to lower fertility and the sex ratio is unable to do so. Although fertility decreases, the sex ratio at birth worsens as high son preference families are unwilling to forgo a son despite substantially higher benefits for a daughter. Thus, financial incentives may only play a limited role in the resolution of the fertility-sex ratio conflict. (JEL I38, J13, J16, J18, O15)

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Late-term Abortion

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Women’s Worth: Trade, Female Income, and Fertility in India

Women’s Worth: Trade, Female Income, and Fertility in India

Methods for Induced Abortion

Financial Incentives and the Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-Off

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