農村婦人들의 人工流産에 關한 硏究 = Study of Induced Abortion in Rural Women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Recent surveys suggest that the adverse reactions and inconvenienece of contraceptive methods
among Korean women resulted in a considerable reduction of the application.
Therefore, many women have gradually begun to use induced abortion for the purpose of birth
control.
With the broad use of the method, many complications gave rise to the sociomedical problems
especially in rural communities.
In order to know the trend of induced abortion in the period from 1970 to 1973, the rate by
sccioeconomic levels and demographic point of view and the influence of induced abortion upon the
limitation of population growth, author carried out the study about the rural women.
The results obtained were as follows:
1. The induced abortion rate was found to be 11.6 per cent in 1970, 14.5 per cent in 1971, 17.5
per cent in 1972, and 22.8 per cent in 1973 respectivelv. The rate in 1973 inereased as high as
2.6 times of the rate of 1970. The per cent of induced abortions was found to be 15.4 per cent by
events and 10.9 per cent by the women. In the frequencies of abortions, 69.0 per cent of women
experienced once, 24 per cent twice, 5 per cent three times and 2 per cent four times in
decreasing order.
2. The inducd abortion rate was the highest (16.1%) in the 35-39 of age group and inversely
paralleled with the degree of educational levels. The rate was higher in women who are middle
econmic level, and the women without religion were somewhat higher than those of other religious
women. Regarding the rate of induced abortion by number of chilren, the rate increased remarkedly
with the increasing number of boys while no difference by number of girls, and more pronounced
among the women who had more than three boys.
The rate was rapidly increased those women who had more than 5 children.
3. In these women, induced abortion was a major reason of family limitation, and accounted for 67
per cent of the abortion, followed by economic and health problems.
4. Almost all of the women had been performed the abortion at hospitals; 12 per cent by the
specialists in obsterics and gynecology and 84 per cent by the general practitioners.
5. An approval toward the abortion among the women who had experienced was more pronounced than
among those unexperienced.
6. The adverse reactions after the completion of abortions were found to be 30 per cent, in which
19 per cent showed persistings sequela.
7. Regarding the legality of induced abortion, one thirds of the women misunderstood as a legal
and the recognition rate of MCH law was only 5 per cent.
8. It is suggested that the application of contraceptive methods among the women may be the
factors responsible for the decrease of fertility rate, and performance of induced abortion among
pregnant women resulted in a reduction of the live birth rate.
Therefore, the contraceptive and induced abortion may occasionally act independently to limit
family size but usually their effects are additive.