Illegal abortion: from gravity of complications to judicial consideration

ABSTRACT

We live at a time in wich abortion is legalized in a great number of western countries. In our country, the laws forbid abortion have not prevented its clandestine practice leading not only to medical problems but to social and ethical ones too. We present here the histories of 4 patients each of whom have presented grave complications of clandestine abortion [3 deaths and one with favorable evolution after a stay of 62 days in intensive care unit]; at the light of this, we have tried to analyse incriminated factors and remind the evolution Morrocan legislation in that field