TY - JOUR PY - 1978// TI - Desire for therapeutic abortion in the dependents of foreign workers. Outpatients psychiatric evaluation (author's transl) JO - Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde A1 - von der Mühlen, H. SP - 858 EP - 861 VL - 38 IS - 10 N2 - The change in paragraph 218 of the criminal code regarding abortion was responsible for new guidelines for the psychiatric evaluation regarding a therapeutic abortion is reported. The commonest indications were medical reasons such as exhaustion, and reactive depression. There was one case of schizophrenia, one case of affective psychosis, two attempted suicides, twenty reactive depressions, one character disorder, and one case of cerebral seizures. Five applications were approved. The follow-up evaluation of the women with the approved and dismissed applications for therapeutic abortions showed no physical or psychic abnormalities. A comparison with 88 German applicants showed similar results. The stringent evaluation of applications for therapeutic abortion is still necessary even after the change of the law.
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