[Management of late induced abortions in France]

In France, the painful ignored question about the taking into charge of termination of pregnancy demands requires a careful examination for appraising the situation realistically as much as for considering humanly acceptable answers. About 6000 women cope every year with this dramatic problem which is often medically settled in Holland, Great-Britain and Spain. As it is a question of serious psychological circumstances after 20 years dealing with abortion medicalization, a status quo, deplored by most of family planning professionals, cannot be accepted. A regional health service dealign with late abortions, once or twice a week, would be sufficient to resolve most of the problems. Knowing in other respects that two thirds of termination of pregnancy demands do not take more than 15 weeks of amenorrhoea.