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A recent study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco has found that major complications associated with an abortion are extremely rare and occur about as frequently as complications associated with a colonoscopy.

The major complication rate of abortion procedures are "rare," less than that of a colonoscopy, researchers at a university in California say.

UCSF researchers have released the most comprehensive study to date on complications after abortion.

Researchers who studied more than 50,000 California Medicaid patients who obtained legal abortion care in the state concluded that “major complications” after legal abortion care are extremely rare, and that overall, legal abortion care has a “very low complication rate.”

Last Friday, the journal Obsetrics & Gynecology published a study that could be one of the most important pieces of research concerning abortion, ever.

In the most comprehensive look yet at the safety of abortion, researchers at UC San Francisco have concluded that major complications are rare, occurring less than a quarter of a percent of the time, about the same frequency as colonoscopies.

In the most comprehensive look yet at the safety of abortion, researchers at UC San Francisco have concluded that major complications are rare, occurring less than a quarter of a percent of the time, about the same frequency as colonoscopies.

A new study followed 50,000 women who received abortions. Only 126 of those women experienced complications.

In the most comprehensive look yet at the safety of abortion, researchers at UC San Francisco have concluded that major complications are rare, occurring less than a quarter of a percent of the time, about the same frequency as colonoscopies.