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Article: Study looks at how low-income women deal with abortion in Mexican society.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Mexico have identified strategies used by low-income women in their country to deal with the stigma attached to abortion there.
Study subjects were "lowest income Mexican women attended for abortion-related complications in a public hospital. The objective was to investigate the women's experience of having a so-called 'spontaneous' abortion and their related strategies to avoid stigmatization," said J. Erviti and colleagues, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
They reported that "four strategies emerge from women's testimonies:
1) "presenting themselves as women who 'play by the ...