Abstract

PIP: Research proposals and papers from the Second Workshop on Abortion, Obtained and Denied; Research Approaches to Outcomes were summarized. Major research proposals included: mortality and morbidity, mental health and related considerations, abortion and family planning, and socioeconomic factors. Papers reviewed were: Somatic consequences of abortion (Tietze), outcomes of induced abortion: medical-clinical view (Cushner). Therapeutic abortion; a liason psychiatrist's perspective (Wolf), Children born after abortion requests are denied (Pohlman), Abortion and fertility regulation in the socialist countries of central and eastern Europe (David and Russo), Demographic Consequences of abortion (Brackett), Induced abortion and family planning (Tyler, Asher, and Freeman), Induced abortion and contraception: Theorectical considerations (Moore), and Socioeconomic outcomes of present abortion regulations and practices (Muller).