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Europe General:
C Tietze: Abortion in Europe (American Journal of Public Health, Vol 57, no 11, Nov 1967).
Eastern Europe. K H Mehlan: Aborstatistik und Geburtenhaufigkeit in der Deutschen Demokratishen Republik (Das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen, 1955).
K H Mehlan: Der Abort als gesellschaftliches Problem (from Redetsky/Thiele: 'Schriftenreihe der ärztlichen Fortbildung' 1962. KH Mehlan: Legal Abortions in Roumania (Journal of Sex Research Vol 1, no 1, Mar 1965).
United National World Population Conference, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 30 Aug-10 Sep 1965: papers:-
 K Miltenyi: Social and Psychological Factors Affecting Fertility in a Legalised Abortion System (Hungary). A Cernoch: Experiences in Czechoslovakia with the Effects and Consequences of Legalised Artificial Termination of Pregnancy. KH Mehlan: Reducing Abortion Rate and Increasing Fertility by Social Policy in the DDR. A Klinger: Demographic effects of Abortion Legislation in some European Socialist Countries.
K H Mehlan: Sozialhygienische Problems des legalen Abortes in der Deutschen Demokratischen Rupublik (n.d. c.1965).
K H Mehlan: Changing patterns of abortion in the Socialist Countries of Europe (paper given at International Population Conference of the IUSSP, London, Sep 3-11 1969).
B Kapotsky: The Demographic Effects of Legal Abortion in Hungary, a survey of the literature and an approximately of its long-range effects (contributed to the 2nd European Population Conference, Strasburg, 31 Aug-7 Sep 1971).
S Klonicz: The Influence of Abortion Legalization on the Demographic Reproduction in Poland 1965-1972 (Warsaw Conference on the Sociology of Medicine, Aug 20-25 1973).

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