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The National Abortion Federation recently announced the release of the latest edition of its definitive text book on abortion care, Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care. Ipas Medical Director Laura Castleman contributed to the volume as an author of the chapter on abortion in low resource settings, along with Paul Blumenthal of Stanford University and Beverly Winikoff of Gynuity.

Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy provides a comprehensive overview of the public health implications of unsafe abortion and reviews the best surgical and medical practices for pregnancy termination, as well as managing ectopic and other abnormal pregnancies.

The past two decades have brought important advances in abortion care as well as increasing cross-disciplinary use of abortion technologies in women’s health care. Abortion is an important option for pregnant women who have serious medical conditions or fetal abnormalities, and fetal reduction techniques are now well-integrated into infertility treatment to reduce the risks of multiple pregnancies resulting from assisted reproductive technologies.

This is the first edition to include a chapter on delivering care in low-resource settings. Since 1973, Ipas has pioneered efforts to save women’s lives by increasing access to safe abortion care, particularly in low-resource settings.

 

Copies of Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy can be ordered here.

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