[Effect of abortion on subsequent fertility with special reference to the abortion process].

UNLABELLED: The influence of a first gravida's legal abortion to the later reproduction was researched on 406 patients in the age between 13 up to 18 years--

RESULT: The rate of abortion and premature birth is significantly increased at subsequent pregnancies when there took place an interruption of the first gravidity.--About 70% of the coming gravidities following an interruption of the first gravidity deliver in the time between 37. up to 39. week of pregnancy.--Premature births having a birth weight below 2500 g are found in 10,17% of the cases compared with a control group showing 5,45%.