Definition: Induced legal abortion

Category: Living conditions

Any interruption of pregnancy before 28 weeks of gestation with a dead foetus, induced by deliberate action undertaken with the intention of terminating pregnancy. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_list_dicts.asp
Source:
United Nations Common Database (UNCDB), based on World Health Organization (WHO), "Spontaneous and induced abortion", Technical Report Series no. 461. Geneva, 1970
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