The medical and social issues of abortion at young age

Abstract

Introduction. Over the past decades, the human reproductive health has been worsen worldwide, with negative reflection on future generations. The destabilization of the medical-social and economic balance in the Republic of Moldova generates negative trends in birth rates. Abortion is one of the main methods of birth rate, the ratio of first upon the second is 0.9: 1. Aim of the study. Abortion is a powerful psychotrauma factor, which may end for the woman involved-with neurosis. Materials and methods. For the purpose of this study have been analysed 30 sources of literature. The theme was studied from both, the statistical and the theoretical perspectives. The theoretical perspective aimed at analyzing, synthesizing and generalizing information from the literature on the concept of "abortion", the medical-social issues, the level of anxiety depending on the method used. The statistical outlook included the analysis of the data collection process about abortion worldwide and national; analyzing the relationship between the legalized and criminal abortions, the medical-social aspects, but also the frequency of the information collection and its actuality. Results. In a study of 89 young women, divided into two groups, the first (22 patients) made up of women who demanded medical abortion with prescriptions,the second group (67 patients) was constituted by the women who requested a surgical discontinuation of the pregnancy, analyzing it, it was found that in the first lot the level of anxiety was lower than in the second lot (52.55% had an average anxiety, 37% had high anxiety, and only 10.45 - low anxiety). In the group of women requiring medical abortion, 41.91% of them had average anxiety and 39.91- low anxiety and only 18.18% high anxiety. According to another WHO analysis in 2000, around 50 million abortions occurred worldwide, of which 30 million were legalized and 20 million were not legal. About 7% of them were made in Europe. According to statistical data, in the world, there are 38 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-40 years old. Annually, global birth rates are 140 million, about one pregnancy out of four ends with abortion, including miscarriages. Conclusions. Abortion, regardless of the method performed, is a powerful psychotrauma factor, which may end for the woman involved-with neurosis. With the help of the psychodiagnostic analysis, from the medical and social point of view, it was proved that the medical abortion has a less negative aspect than the surgical one. In our days, the abortion os more frequently in the young women.