Analyzing demographic features of medical abortion applicants in legal medical department of Tehran province between 2020 and 2021

Abstract

Introduction: We are permitted to terminate the pregnancy for therapeutic reasons or when it is medically necessary for these situations. Sometimes fetal, other times maternal, for these reasons. This indicates that we sometimes do abortions to protect the mother's health, and other times we do so because of defects in the fetus. This study was done to look at the demographics of people who applied for medical abortions in Tehran province's legal medical department between 2020 and 2021. Method: The current study was descriptive-cross-sectional-retrospective, and the legal medical department of Tehran Province's abortion applicants' files between 2020 and 2021 were inspected. The data collecting form from the legal medical office's prepared files and comparing fetal malformations and maternal conditions leading to abortion served as the study instrument. The data was statistically analyzed after being entered into the statistical program SPSS version 24. Finally, requests' outcomes and abortion instances involving maternal and fetal illnesses were analyzed. Findings: The findings showed that the most typical fetal age was between 16 and 19 weeks, the most typical maternal age was between 31 and 45 years old, and 50.8% of women had filed for a license in 1400.