Table 2 Frequency of reasons for not permitted cases
From: Therapeutic abortion in Iran: an epidemiologic study of legal abortion in 2 years
Reasons | Fetal N (%) | Maternal N (%) | Non-fetal\non-maternal N (%) | Total N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lack of enough supplementary documents to prove fetal anomaly/maternal disease | 722 (20.2) | 849 (57.6) | 702 (87.8) | 2275 (38.8) |
No compliance with defined criteria | 1354 (37.8) | 569 (38.6) | 64 (8) | 1987 (33.9) |
GA above 19 weeks | 1457 (40.7) | 43 (2.9) | 9 (1.1) | 1509 (25.8) |
Intrauterine fetal death | 47 (1.2) | 5 (0.3) | 8 (1.1) | 60 (1) |
Not approved pregnancy | 7 (0.1) | 8 (0.6) | 16 (2) | 31 (0.5) |
Total | 3579 (100) | 1474 (100) | 799 (100) | 5860 (100) |