ABSTRACT
The Central Family Planning Board at their sixteenth meeting held on the 25th August, 1964, expressed anxiety on the reported increase in the number of induced abortions under insanitary conditions affecting the health and life of the mother. In Hungary, ‘strong attempts were made in 1952–53 to enforce existing laws against criminal abortion. High Mortality rates related to illegal abortions seems to be an important plea for the legalisation of abortions. The influence of abortion on population growth can also be appraised in terms of the relationship between abortion and parity status and indirectly age of the women resorting to it. There have been arguments that legalisation of abortion will lead to loose sex morals. As far as morbidity is concerned however, the deleterious effects on the mothers’ health especially of repeated abortions are not entirely eliminated through abortions being made legal.
