[Interruption before and after March 9, 1972].

The report covers 1000 interruptions prior to the new legal regulation of the interruption of gravidity of March 9, 1972, and 1000 interruptions after this date. The increasing number of interruptions is associated with a high reduction in the number of abortions and a falling birth rate (1971: birth rate 3956, 1973: birth rate 2806). A comparison is made of the age groups (average age of group 1: 33,4 years; of group 2: 28,5 years), marital status (unmarried women of group 1: 10,8%, of group 2: 23,7%), parity (56,6 per cent of all the women who had an interruption after the new legal regulation had born no child or one child), and rate of early complications (group 1: 4,2%, group 2: 6,3%).