"Abortion, Legal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Termination of pregnancy under conditions allowed under local laws. (POPLINE Thesaurus, 1991)
| Descriptor ID |
D000029
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.520.050.055
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| Concept/Terms |
Abortion, Legal- Abortion, Legal
- Abortions, Legal
- Legal Abortion
- Legal Abortions
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Abortion, Legal" by people in this website by year, and whether "Abortion, Legal" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Abortion, Legal" by people in Profiles.
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State-Level Abortion Bans and the OBGYN Workforce: A Review of Current Evidence. JAMA Health Forum. 2026 May 01; 7(5):e261184.
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Preferred strategies for obtaining abortion care among pregnant Texans: A latent?class analysis. Contraception. 2026 Jan; 153:111244.
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Increase in Health Care Utilization of Texas Infants with Congenital Anomalies Following Senate Bill 8. J Pediatr. 2026 01; 288:114823.
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Abortion care preferences and trade-offs when traveling out-of-state for facility-based services: findings from a discrete choice experiment. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Dec 18; 24(1):1573.
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A Risk Is Not a Harm: Abortion Exceptions in State Laws. Hastings Cent Rep. 2024 Jul; 54(4):47.
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The Texas Medical Board and the Futility of Medical Exceptions to Abortion Bans. JAMA. 2024 06 25; 331(24):2073-2074.
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Renewed calls for abortion-related research in the post-Roe era. Front Public Health. 2023; 11:1322299.
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Addressing challenges related to the professional practice of abortion post-Roe. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2024 05; 230(5):532-539.
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United States vasectomy incidence rises after the reversal of Roe v. Wade in a national clinical and claims database. Fertil Steril. 2023 07; 120(1):196-197.
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Pregnancy in Patients With Advanced?Heart?Failure: Impact of Overturn of Roe v Wade Ruling. JACC Heart Fail. 2023 03; 11(3):362-364.