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Abortion and accident proneness: a Danish validation study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Ronald L. Somers
Ronald L. Somers
Affiliation:
Accident Analysis Group, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
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Summary

The hypothesis that women who experience accidental pregnancy are at risk for all types of accident has been examined to test indirectly the validity of a commonly postulated abortion personality profile. Identified women undergoing abortion in Odense, Denmark, were compared with non-abortion community women as to their registered incidence of accident-related trauma over a 2-year period. Age- and cause-specific accident rates were found not to vary significantly between the abortion and non-abortion groups of women.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 425 - 429
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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