All requests for contraception must take into account the mental hygiene of the potential child. Therefore contraception or abortion are procedures that afford preventive care for the future or imagined child. An example cited was a woman who conceived her 4th child out of wedlock without having used contraception. She made an appointment for an abortion, but changed her mind. The labor was complicated by ineffective contractions, and had to be terminated by Caesarean section because of fetal distress.