Hi,
There was a question during last Thursday’s meeting about the MeSH term, Abortion, Criminal. A colleague of mine was already working on this term and will submit a request to have the heading changed to Abortion, Illegal. As to the treeing,
it’s under Crime. It’s there according to the laws in certain places and/or under certain circumstances. It’s too bad that some of the other crimes listed are particularly offensive, like Corpse Dismemberment.
In NLM Classification, we will also change the caption name at W 867 from Criminal abortion. This classification is roughly equivalent to the LC Classification, RA1067.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lilker
National Library of Medicine