PubMed · 7370616
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1980-03-01. Abortion (Amendment) Bill.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7370616/
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During the period 1966-1989, pregnancy interruption was severely punished in Romania. However, natality rose only temporarily, while illegal abortions reached at least 3.36%/year and became the main etiology of ARF. From the 653 patients hemodialyzed for ARF during 1979-1989 in Cluj, 131 (20.07%) had abortions; during 1990-1993 only 3 (1.52%) had this diagnosis. Of the women with postabortion ARF, 71.64% were oligoanuric. The average duration of oligoanuria was 18.9 days, the longest reversible oligoanuria 89 days, the mean schedule of dialysis 1/2.98 days. Hysterectomy was performed in 44.3%; chronic renal failure occurred in 8.21% of the patients. Mortality rate averaged 14.92%, being greater in hysterectomized women (18.64%) and in those with a BUN over 150 mg% at admission. The survivors had to face the menace of imprisonment and the interrogation of prosecutors already in the hospital, regardless of their health problems.
A prospective study of the maternal mortality and morbidity and other related social problems among 144 cases of procured abortion in Ilorin, Nigeria over a 24-month period is presented. A mortality rate of 90.3 per thousand procured abortions was recorded. Genital sepsis, haemorrhagic anaemia, gut injury, uterine perforation and vesico vaginal fistulae (VVF) were encountered. Poor referral system, late presentation, poor blood transfusion services and inadequate availability of drugs had adverse effects on the patients. The implications (the menace and frequency) of these and possible measures like improving the literacy level, the moral standards, contraceptive practice and family life education (sex education) are discussed.