Metadata record for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Abortion Surveillance System, 2009-2013
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Abortion Surveillance System, 2009-2013
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http://doi.org/10.3886/E100448V1
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Abortion Surveillance System, 2009-2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-02-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100448V1
abortions
pregnancies
womens health care
CDC began abortion surveillance in 1969 to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions. Many states and reporting areas (New York City and the District of Columbia) conduct abortion surveillance. CDC compiles the information these reporting areas collect to produce national estimates. CDC’s surveillance system compiles information on legal induced abortions only. For the purpose of surveillance, a legal induced abortion is defined as an intervention performed by a licensed clinician (e.g., a physician, nurse-midwife, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant) that is intended to terminate an ongoing pregnancy. Most states and reporting areas that collect abortion data now report if an abortion was medical or surgical. Medical abortions are legal procedures that use medications instead of surgery.
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United States
Legally induced abortions in the United States
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