Abortion (cont.)
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Author: Suzanne R Trupin, MDEditor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD
Previous contributing editors: Bryan D Cowan, MD, Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Mississippi College of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Lee P Shulman, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Head, Section of Reproductive Genetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Last Editorial Review: 6/20/2007
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In the United States and worldwide, elective termination of pregnancy remains common.

