[Therapeutic abortion. Critical study of 22 cases]

The abortion for medical reasons is the only abortion allowed in Morocco and it aims to preserve maternal health or to forewarn the birth of handicaped children. The author has ascribed 22 cases of medical abortion, their indications have maternal origin in 91% cases. In europeans series the indication have 80% of foetal origin. In order to change the profil of our indications, the author insists on the necessity to program the pregnancy in maternal pathology, to eliminate an early, pregnancy before any therapeutical act and to encourage antenatal diagnosis according to legal dispositions.