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The primary objective of this report is to evaluate the demographic effects of induced abortion on human fertility, defined in terms of the number of children born per 1000 women over a specified period. Physicians, on the other hand, define fertility as a woman’s capacity to produce offspring during her reproductive life. To avoid the confusion that this semantic difference has sometimes created, the reader must be aware that throughout this paper, the term fertility is used in its demographic sense—as numbers of live births and live birth rates for selected populations and periods.
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Bongaarts, J. (1987). The Demographic Effect of Induced Abortion. In: Tietze, S.L., Lincoln, R. (eds) Fertility Regulation and the Public Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4702-9_35
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