Pereira Morato, R.

El aborto: un problema social de grandes dimensiones nbsp;- nbsp;[Abortion: a social problem of great dimensions]
Pereira Morato, R. - 1991 - Jornadas multidisciplinarias sobre el aborto, 25 de Febrero al 1o de Marzo, 1991, [La Paz] Bolivia, Sociedad Boliviana de Ciencias Penales, 109-27

Palabras claves : aborto ilegal; aborto inducido; anticoncepción de emergencia; aspectos psicológicos; comportamientos; crítica; cultura; determinantes; educación en planificación familiar; factores demográficos; factores psicológicos; género; identidad de género; incidencia; medición; metodología; mortalidad; mortalidad materna; mortalidad perinatal; motivación; planificación familiar; población
País : America del Sur; America Del Sur; América latina; Bolivia; Latina America; País en desarrollo; Sudamérica

Resumen : Only countries that have legalized abortion have relatively reliable abortion statistics. International Planned Parenthood Federation data suggest that about 5 million illegal abortions occur in Latin America each year, giving a rate of at least 65/1000 women 15-44 years old and a ratio of nearly 30% of known pregnancies. An estimated 39,000 abortions occurred in 1986 in Bolivia, where abortion appears to be increasing. A 1983-84 study in 5 Bolivian hospitals indicated that the mortality rate from abortion was 60/10,000 procedures. Bolivia's maternal mortality rate is estimated at 50/10,000 live births. An estimated 235 women die annually in Bolivia from complications of illegal abortion, although the true number may be higher because of the reluctance of women to admit to abortion. The majority of deaths are in impoverished urban women and to a lesser extent in poor rural women. Women of the wealthier classes may be able to secure relatively safe abortions from medical personnel, but lower class women are more likely to experience pain, fear, and complications from unsafe and unhygienic practices. Illegal abortion is 10-250 times more dangerous than any contraceptive method. Abortion is not exclusively a question of health. Economic problems, especially in households dependent on the woman's income; the stigmatization of single mothers; the lack of sex education in an environment of pervasive sexual stimulation; the desire of men to affirm their virility through pregnancy despite the unwillingness of the partners; and misunderstanding of the fertile period among users of natural family planning methods are factors in the persistence of abortion. Lack of access to family planning and contraceptive failure are other factors. Approximately 60% of the budgets of hospital obstetrics and gynecology services in Bolivia are expended on treating complications of abortion. Measures to prevent abortion should include improving the social and economic status of poor women and making sex education and family planning services available.

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