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31History of abortion — The practice of abortion dates back to ancient times. Pregnancies were terminated through a number of methods, including the administration of abortifacient herbs, the use of sharpened implements, the application of abdominal pressure, and other… …
32Physical Effects of Abortion — The Physical Effects of Abortion † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Physical Effects of Abortion Definition. The expulsion of the human ovum occurring during the first three months of pregnancy, and occurring from any cause whatsoever, is… …
33National Abortion Federation — The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is an organization of abortion providers. Though originally a U.S. group, NAF has expanded to include practitioners in Canada and Australia as well as many European countries and Mexico. According to their… …
34Therapeutic Abortion Committee — A Therapeutic Abortion Committee (commonly known as a TAC) refers to a Canadian committee of three medical doctors who would decide whether an abortion fit an exemption to the Criminal Code of Canada, which only permitted lawful abortion if… …
35Scottish criminal law — Scots Criminal Law governs the rules of criminal law in Scotland. Scottish criminal law relies far more heavily on common law than in England and Wales. Scottish criminal law includes offences against the person of murder, culpable homicide, rape …
36Self-induced abortion — A self induced abortion (or self induced miscarriage) is an abortion performed by the pregnant woman herself outside the recognized medical system. Although the term can include abortions induced through legal, over the counter medication, it… …
37Legalized abortion and crime effect — The legalized abortion and crime effect is the controversial theory that legal abortion reduces crime. Proponents of the theory generally argue that unwanted children are more likely to become criminals and that an inverse correlation is observed …
38Judaism and abortion — In Judaism, views on abortion draw primarily upon the legal and ethical teachings of the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the case by case decisions of responsa, and other rabbinic literature. In the modern period, moreover, Jewish thinking on abortion… …
39The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime — is a controversial paper by Steven Levitt of University of Chicago and John Donohue of Yale University. The paper, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2001, offers evidence that the falling United States crime rates of the 1990s… …
40British Virgin Islands Criminal Code — The British Virgin Islands Criminal Code (No 1 of 1997) is a statute of the British Virgin Islands which consolidates almost all of the indictable offences under the Territory s criminal law.The Code was passed into law by the Legislative Council …
