Announcement Reproductive Health Matters 16(31) Supplement May 2008

Theme:  Second trimester abortion: women’s health and public policy
Publication date:  August 2008

In March 2007 the International Consortium for Medical Abortion (ICMA) convened a three-day conference in London to address second trimester abortion issues.  The conference was attended by 90 clinicians, policymakers and women’s health advocates from Africa, Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Africa, and North America. There were 11 panels with over 30 different speakers who sought to:

•highlight the importance of second trimester abortion as a women's health, ethical and public policy issue;

•review the situation with respect to second trimester abortion in relation to women's and providers' perspectives, safety and efficacy of methods, legal and policy dimensions, access and service delivery issues, and the contribution of second trimester abortions to maternal morbidity and mortality;

•delineate the place of medical methods within second trimester abortion; and provide a forum to share this information, start a process of developing recommendations and guidance on these matters and disseminate the information globally.

ICMA distributed a conference report with the recommendations of the meeting in 2007. The authors of many of the presentations and other contributors working in second trimester abortion have written articles which Reproductive Health Matters has brought together in a journal supplement. The table of contents can be found below.

This supplement will be sent to 2008 subscribers of Reproductive Health Matters in the second half of 2008 and will also be distributed by ICMA.

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