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    anything wrong with them. Abortion is wrong and should be banned. Two main types of abortion exist, Medical and, Dilation and curettage. Medical abortions are for women who consent to a medical abortion, but are also willing to undergo a surgical abortion if the medical abortion fails. The first trimester of a medical abortion is accomplished medically with misoprostol. Dilation and curettage is a procedure that involves dilating the uterine cervix so the tissue of the uterus can be removed. It is one

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    anything wrong with them. Abortion is wrong and should be banned. Two main types of abortion exist, Medical and, Dilation and curettage. Medical abortions are for women who consent to a medical abortion but are also willing to undergo a surgical abortion if the medical abortion fails. The first trimester of a medical abortion is accomplished medically with misoprostol. Dilation and curettage is a procedure that involves dilating the uterine cervix so the tissue of the uterus can be removed. It is one

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    The Asherman's Syndrome

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    The Asherman’s syndrome, which is also known as intrauterine adhesions, is related to one of the most common surgical abortion procedures used by the society today- Dilation and curettage (D&C). “Dilation” refers to the opening of the cervix; “Curettage” refers to the process of clearing any remaining tissue on the uterus lining after an abortion by a surgical instrument called the curette. Based on Schuster, CH, Doula (n.d): “Women who have had a D&C 2-4 weeks post-delivery, due to retained placental

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    Mifepristone and Misoprostol which are more common” (UCSF Health & American Pregnancy). “Surgical abortion can be used from the as early as 12 weeks up to 16 weeks. Some surgical operations are, Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) Aspiration, Dilation and Curettage (D&C), Dilation and Evacuation (D&E), Induction Abortion” (American Pregnancy). “UCLA Health states the benefits and drawbacks of Surgical abortion saying that some women will experience cramping during or after the procedure. Some of the time, there

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    pregnancy up to sixteen weeks from the last period. It can be called suction curettage, dilation and curettage or vacuum aspiration. Medication-based procedures are not an option during the second trimester. During second trimester there are two main procedures dilation & curettage and induction abortion. Dilation & curettage is a procedure used to kill a baby up to sixteen weeks gestation and it’s referred to as suction curettage or vacuum aspiration. The second procedure is induction abortion which

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    Premature birth is the completion of pregnancy by evacuating a baby or incipient organism before it can get by outside the uterus. A fetus removal which happens suddenly is otherwise called an unnatural birth cycle. A premature birth might be created intentionally and is then called a prompted fetus removal, or less habitually, "incited unsuccessful labor". The word fetus removal is frequently used to mean just impelled premature births. A comparable technique after the hatchling could possibly get

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