{"id":13655,"date":"1970-11-07T20:14:00","date_gmt":"1970-11-08T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13655"},"modified":"2023-01-23T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T04:43:08","slug":"correspondence-therapeutic-abortion-in-a-canadian-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13655","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) Therapeutic abortion in a Canadian city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">JG Stapleton<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cmaj.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ\" class=\"wp-image-11269\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>The article &#8220;Therapeutic Abortion in a Canadian City&#8221; (Canad. Med. Ass. 1., 103: 461, 1970) is an interesting contribution to the current discussion of therapeutic abortion and is obviously the result of a good deal of conscientious study of a large number of hospital records. . . There is one feature about the article, however, which gives me some concern. This is the inclusion, among the relatively small number of medical grounds for abortion in this series, of the reason &#8220;Gross exposure to radiation&#8221;. . . . It would be most unfortunate if &#8220;gross exposure to radiation&#8221; were interpreted as referring to medical exposures involved in diagnosis . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Stapleton J. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1930729\/pdf\/canmedaj01606-0087.pdf\">(Correspondence) Therapeutic abortion in a Canadian city<\/a>. 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