{"title":"Abortion and Infertility.","authors":"Gregory K Pike","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this article is to examine one potential factor that might negatively impact female fertility, namely induced abortion. While there appears to be a general consensus that there is no association between abortion and infertility, amongst the publications that do exist there is nevertheless evidence to the contrary. Moreover, given the variety of reasonable grounds for a link, and the insufficient attention to the subject by researchers, a re-examination of the field is warranted. Abortion, whether surgical or medical, is one of the most common medical procedures undertaken by women, so even a small effect could influence large numbers of women, and therefore couples.</p><p><p>If it were known that abortion was an underlying cause of infertility, it would be an ethical and legal requirement for medical professionals to inform women before consent is obtained. A case could even be made that if research were inconclusive, inadequate or preliminary, women should nevertheless be informed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48665,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Law & Medicine","volume":"35 2","pages":"173-195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Issues in Law & Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The purpose of this article is to examine one potential factor that might negatively impact female fertility, namely induced abortion. While there appears to be a general consensus that there is no association between abortion and infertility, amongst the publications that do exist there is nevertheless evidence to the contrary. Moreover, given the variety of reasonable grounds for a link, and the insufficient attention to the subject by researchers, a re-examination of the field is warranted. Abortion, whether surgical or medical, is one of the most common medical procedures undertaken by women, so even a small effect could influence large numbers of women, and therefore couples.
If it were known that abortion was an underlying cause of infertility, it would be an ethical and legal requirement for medical professionals to inform women before consent is obtained. A case could even be made that if research were inconclusive, inadequate or preliminary, women should nevertheless be informed.
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Issues in Law & Medicine is a peer reviewed professional journal published semiannually. Founded in 1985, ILM is co-sponsored by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. and the Watson Bowes Research Institute.
Issues is devoted to providing technical and informational assistance to attorneys, health care professionals, educators and administrators on legal, medical, and ethical issues arising from health care decisions. Its subscribers include law libraries, medical libraries, university libraries, court libraries, attorneys, physicians, university professors and other scholars, primarily in the U.S. and Canada, but also in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.
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