Endocrine Abstracts

Unintended pregnancy is common. Most European governments are concerned by abortion rates which, if not rising, seem stubbornly difficult to reduce. Moreover by no means all unintended pregnancies are aborted: in the UK, almost one third of pregnancies which end in childbirth are unplanned or mistimed. While no method of contraception is 100% effective, few induced abortions are the result of true method failures; most are due to unprotected sex or incorrect/ inconsistent use ...