Abortion complication rates are 'very low,' study says

The major complication rate of abortion procedures are "rare", less than a colonoscopy, researchers say in a university in California.

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco studied 54,911 abortions performed from 2009 to 2010 and six week follow-up services in each of the women.

The report found Monday in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology this abortions, 2.1 percent in general leads to a complication, with only 0.23 percent, a serious complication such as a blood transfusion or surgery that requires hospitalization,

The authors of the study said time, the complication rate is lower than the extraction of wisdom teeth, tonsillectomy and 7 percent, 9 percent is connected. The lower rate of major complications major complications of colonoscopy, 0.35 percent results.

"Our study had very comprehensive monitoring data on all women, and we still have a very low complication found," said Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH, assistant professor in the promotion of new health standards of reproduction (ANSIRH ), a program of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and reproductive Sciences at UCSF. "Abortion is very safe, as in the present, which eliminates the need for additional regulations that supposedly application in question in to improve safety. "

97 percent were enrolled in the study of abortions are performed in outpatient clinics or in the office of a doctor. Three percent in hospitals.

A press release "Many state legislatures recently providers by requiring transfer agreements or approves the privilege of admission that build with hospitals or clinics as they meet the requirements of an ambulatory surgery laws center, the effect of reducing access to abortion "of the university, said. "But the researchers say that these restrictions were likely to make women move further to get an abortion or to drive on their own with dangerous methods, both of which increase the risk for women."

The report said that the complication rates were on par with previous similar studies, but this report contain complete aftercare women may have visited upon receiving an abortion.