Abstract
In this study we have examined two issues and comment on a third. One is the assumption that the surgical techniques for menstrual regulation (MR) and vacuum aspiration abortion (VA) are equivalent and unchanging from physician to physician and therefore that data can be Compared from one facility to another. The other is that women requesting MR differ in descriptive epidemiological variables from women requesting VA in the first trimester. The data presented in this paper do not affirm either of these hypotheses. Finally, the result of a pregnancy test is used by some to distinguish between MR and VA. The sensitivity of the specific chorionic gonadotropin radioimmunoassay makes this distinction arbitrary and artificial.
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