Structural determinants of the abortion rate: A cross-societal analysis

Social Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 62-81

  Trent, Katherine ^a   Hoskin, Anthony W ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, LEGAL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 0033085659     PISSN: 0037766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1999.9988988     Document Type: Article

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