Ovulation following therapeutic abortion

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Therapeutic abortion is quickly becoming one of the most frequently performed of all operations. One of its significant problems relates to postabortal advice regarding contraception. In a relatively stable large population group, the date of the first postabortal ovulation was determined by endometrial biopsy and correlated, when possible, with the basal body temperature graph. The results of this study on 91 patients, with evidence of unsuspected early ovulation in a significant proportion, suggest that contraception measures should be employed within two weeks of the procedure if immediate pregnancy is unwanted.

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Presented (by invitation) at the Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, Rancho La Costa, California, October 5-10, 1971.

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