A Socio-medical Study on the Sterilization and Artificial Pregnancy Interruption with Special Reference to the Motive and the Effect.

Abstract

This article contributes to the information of sterilization and induced abortion which are very prevalent and represent important factors of the precipitous decrease of the birth rate in the present Japan. The author made adetailed investigation on the motivation, reason, and the result ; one of the most interesting findings was that the women, generally speaking, used to resort to the sterilization operation under the condition of their having one ortwo male children already. Another finding must also be of value, that whenwomen resort to induced abortion, the next baby will come to them very soon. For this reason, the author wants to emphasize that “ it is not clever” to take the induced abortion for the purpose of birth control, not to say the other disadvantages.