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[The problem of abortion. Viewpoint of the general practitioner].


 The author, a general practitioner, describes the development of practices and attitudes toward abortion in Belgium. The laws prohibiting abortion are ineffective and counterproductive: formerly, they prompted the use of dangerous methods, with serious or fatal complications; presently, they are circumvented by having abortions performed abroad, where they are legal. It is concluded that physicians should be permitted to follow their own conscience, without being forced to perform abortions whenever requested by patients, but authorized to perform them when it is obvious that there is a high risk of malformation or congenital disease, or that the child would be unwanted, abandoned, or psychologically refused by the parents.
