The Pros And Cons Of Abortion

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There are a couple types of abortions used, one form is medically. In this process you’re given various medications that are intended to end your pregnancy. Women that choose a medical abortion are willing to undergo a surgical abortion if the first one fails. The medical procedure has a success rate that ranges from 75-95%, with about 2-4% of failed abortions that require a surgical procedure. The process involves bleeding, often heavy just like a period, that must be differentiated from hemorrhage. No matter how much tissue that has passed, a woman must see a doctor to make sure the process is complete. There's a rare and serious

Women may have an abortion for a variety of reasons, but in general they choose abortion because a pregnancy at that time is in some way wrong for them. “Abortion is the removal of a fetus from the uterus before it is mature enough to live on its own” (Kuechler 1996). When this happens spontaneously we call it a miscarriage. Induced abortion is brought about deliberately by a medical procedure that ends pregnancy. Legal abortion, carried out by trained medical practitioners, is one of the most common and safest surgical procedures. “About 1.5 million American women choose to have induced abortions each year. Less than 1% of all abortion patients experience a major complication associated with the procedure” (Kuechler 1996).

I hold the belief that a woman should have the right to have an abortion if that is what she would like. This means I identify as a pro-choice supporter. If the government ever decide to illegalize abortion, it would mean that women do not 'own' their body and instead the lawmakers do. As soon as a third party, such as lawmakers, are given the power to decide that abortions are wrong and they decide to ban abortions, women are no longer in control of their own bodies which makes them powerless.

Since 1973, a total of 57,496,011 abortions have been reported to the Centers of Disease Control and that number keeps rising. This does not include the self-induced abortions or the abortions your body causes, also known as miscarriage. There are so many different procedures throughout the years. In the early years, many women did not seek help from licensed medical assistance. They attempted removal of the fetus with a coat-hanger also piercing of the fetus with a knitting needle, crochet hook, hat pin, bobby pin or similar device inserted into the uterus through the cervix. Many women also used douching methods linked to miscarriage to abort the baby such as Clorox bleach or lye which could also cause chemical burns. In the 1960s women also used Coca-Cola to send their bodies into aborting the fetus. The Induction abortion takes approximately three to four days to complete. On the first day, the young woman is given an ultrasound to determine the age of her baby. Then, the abortionist with the help of an ultrasound to guide them. The patient will then receive a lethal dose of the heart medication Digoxin, a generic drug, is injected into the baby’s heart or into the amniotic fluid directly through the woman’s abdomen or vaginally, the Digoxin will give the baby a fatal heart attack. Although the reason for killing the baby first is to avoid a live birth. After the drug is injected, the woman’s cervix is inserted with Laminaria sticks or tent, a thin tampon-like

This procedure is done from nine to fourteen weeks and it includes using a suction device to take away parts of the women’s uterus. The second most common abortion procedure is a medical abortion, which is an abortion pill. The medication that women will usually take are called mifepristone and misoprostol; they take these medicines within the first seven to nine weeks of pregnancy to prompt abortion. After fourteen weeks, another surgical procedure is done called the dilation and evacuation procedure. Then after twenty weeks, an abortion can be done by a labor induction, hysterectomy, or dilation and extraction. The article, Should Abortion be Legal, stated, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 64.5% of abortions performed in 2011 were performed at or less than 8 weeks gestation, and 91.4% were performed at or less than 13 weeks gestation. 79.6% were performed by surgical procedure, while 19.1% were medical abortions,” they also stated, “an average of about 1.4 million abortions per year. One out of five pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion, and each year 1.7% of women aged 15-44 have an abortion.” There are many different types of reasons why women want to have an abortion; some women feel that having a baby would affect their education or work. Others feel that they cannot support the child financially or they do not have the support of a father and would rather not take

There are two kinds of induced abortion, surgical and chemical. Surgical abortion procedures include manual vacuum aspiration, suction curettage, saline, and hysterotomy. Chemical abortion options include pills called, RU-486 also called as the abortion pill, methotrexate and misoprostol and the morning after pill. Overall, the purpose of these procedures is to kill the fetus by suffocating using substances and not giving it medical attention.

Considered less invasive with only a local anesthesia being used on the cervix. Aspiration: a surgical abortion procedure used to terminate pregnancy up to 16 weeks from the last period. It can also be referred to as suction curettage, dilation and curettage (D & C) or vacuum aspiration. Most of the methods in the first trimester are a form of medication. During the second trimester medication cannot be used There are three kinds of abortion commonly used during the second trimester which are Dilation & Curettage (D & C)a surgical abortion procedure used to terminate a pregnancy up to 16 weeks gestation. It is also referred to as suction curettage or vacuum aspiration. Dilation & Evacuation (D & E) a surgical abortion procedure used to terminate a pregnancy after 16 weeks gestation. Induction Abortion a rarely  performed surgical procedure where salt water, urea, or potassium chloride is injected into the amniotic sac; prostaglandins are inserted into the vagina, and pitocin is injected intravenously. Before considering the options, it is recommended that you obtain a sonogram to determine if the pregnancy is viable (uterine, non-ectopic pregnancy) and for accurate pregnancy

First, there is the medical abortion. Medical abortion, sometimes called Mifeprex™, RU-486, is a non-surgical abortion done using medication. There are two different methods of medical abortion available: mifepristone followed by misoprostol and methotrexate followed by misoprostol. Mifepristone is a pill that is swallowed by the patient. It interferes with a woman’s ability to produce a hormone called progesterone, which is needed for the fetus to grow. MTX or methotrexate is a drug or injection that stops embryonic cell growth and stops from growing outside the uterus. Misoprostol is either swallowed by the patient or placed in the vagina by the doctor. The second type of abortion is surgical abortion, also known as vacuum aspiration. Surgical abortion is when a doctor removes a fetus from the uterus. Ectopic pregnancy is an abnormal pregnancy that grows outside the uterus and is often found in the fallopian tube, and it is very dangerous because it can harm a woman or threaten her future fertility (Abortion: Which Method is Right for Me?).

Abortions can be performed in many different ways. It varies state by state as to what trimester/week you are no longer able to perform an abortion, but most states ban the procedure somewhere around 22 weeks or towards the end of the second trimester. In the first trimester (one-thirteen weeks) an abortion can be performed with Mifeprex/Misoprostol drugs (“Abortion Procedures During First, Second and Third Trimester”). A woman can also choose to have a surgical abortion in the first trimester (“Abortion”). This surgical abortion can be performed with little cervical dilation and by using a hand-held syringe or small-bore cannula(tube) attached to a suction machine (“Abortion”). This procedure can take a few minutes (“Abortion”). If a woman chooses not to have an abortion in her first trimester, she can choose to have one in her second trimester (14-27 weeks).

As mentioned in the previous paragraph, the procedures used to perform late term abortions are both safe and humane. It should be noted that there are mainly two procedures used, D&E(dilation and evacuation) and D&X (dilation and extraction). To understand why there is much debate about the humaneness of these two procedures, especially the D&X procedure, one has to comprehend what these procedures entail. “D&E is a procedure that may require, if the pregnancy is sufficiently advanced, the use of a forceps to dismember the fetus and extract it in pieces,”(Ballaro). Interestingly enough, this procedure which would seem like the one to cause an uproar is more accepted by the prolife movement than that of the D&X procedure. ”The D&X procedure is when the fetus is removed intact from the womb. It takes two to three days while

There are many methods used to abort a fetus. Some are quite gruesome, while others are less intrusive. The D&C (Dilation & Curettage) is occasionally used up to the twelfth week. The cervix is dilated and a cruet is inserted into the uterus. The baby’s body is then cut into pieces and removed by suction. The uterine wall is then scraped, removing the placenta to empty the entire uterus. A D&E (Dilation & Evacuation) can be performed up to eighteen weeks. The uterus is entered with a forceps which grabs and twists the baby’s body to dismember it. Sometimes the head needs to be crushed in order to remove it. Another form of abortion is the Hysterotomy which can be used in the last three months of pregnancy. The mother’s stomach is cut open, much like a “C

A forty-year old woman named Alyson Draper, from Midway, Utah had to make the most difficult decision in her life when she decided to have an abortion after 22 weeks into her pregnancy. This might seem crazy to people for a women to even consider getting one and ending what they believe is a person's life. After hearing the reason she got this abortion a lot of people might think different, Draper was on her way into being a mother of eight when she found out she was pregnant with twins. Unfortunately the worst happen when she found out that one of them had passed away while still in the womb and the other had severe spina bilfida and would only survive a couple days outside the womb on life support in a great deal of pain. In addition to the babies her own life was in jeopardy if she went along in having these babies so that's when Draper and her husband had to make the difficult decision to have the abortion to save Draper's life so she can be there for the six children she already has. “I had always been firmly in the category that I would die before I would abort a baby or a fetus, that was something I never saw doing, and I was disapproving of women who did so,” she said. “But afterward, I thought how unethical it is to judge another woman for doing that, because you never know what the circumstances are (Para 14). This is just one of the countless examples of why abortion shouldn’t be morally frowned upon, but I also believe if you are getting an abortion just so you

The most probable method of abortion is called dilation and curettage. General anaesthetic is provided to the pregnant mother while the gynaecologist opens (dilates) the cervix with instruments called dilators, and then inserts a hollow tube through the cervix. Suction is applied to remove the retained tissue in the uterus. If the abortion is to be carried out on the 20th-24th week, 2 general anaesthetics with 2 nights will be supplied.

Descriptive: Abortion is the termination of an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. It is a controversial issue affecting our society and raises ethical issues. Abortions can be performed before nine weeks from the last menstrual period and is performed either surgically with the removal of the fetus or medically with drugs. From nine weeks until 14 weeks, an abortion is performed by a dilatation and suction curettage procedure. After 14 weeks, abortions are then performed by an evacuation procedure. After 20 weeks of gestation, abortions can be performed by labor induction, prostaglandin labor induction, saline infusion, hysterectomy, or dilatation and extraction.