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The unwanted pregnancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Peter Diggory
Peter Diggory
Affiliation:
Kingston Hospital, and Royal Hospital, Richmond
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This is a subject in which one can readily become entangled in semantic confusion. Short definitions of the unwanted pregnancy are always inadequate and I am going to assume that we all know what we mean by the term. I would comment that a planned pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy, but not all unplanned pregnancies are ultimately unwanted. Many of us here could, in truth, be described as more or less happy accidents.

Type
Problems of fertility control
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 3 , supplement S3: Biosocial Aspects of Human Fertility , 1971 , pp. 127 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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