Surgical abortion rate dropping 5% a year
Hospital procedures are falling as the number of medical terminations goes up, data shows
The surgical abortion rate has been dropping by 5% a year since the listing of mifepristone/misoprostol on the PBS eight years ago, according to Victorian researchers.
At the same time the number of medical abortions have risen more than six-fold to almost 21,000 a year, say the authors from the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Health Equity.
