Dilation and curettage

INTRODUCTION It is estimated almost half of pregnancies in Australia are unplanned . Unexpected pregnancies happen for various individual, social, economic and political reasons . The World Health Organisation (WHO) approximates one in three women in Australia will have an abortion procedure in their life . Abortion data is only gathered by South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. However, South Australia is the only state to publish data and report findings annually. Abortion

Over 42 million babies are killed in a year because of abortion. That is 115,000 deaths a day. After the case Roe vs Wade was presented to the Supreme Court, abortions have been legal since. In the United States, the topic abortion is very debatable. Many people think that abortion should be illegal because of moral and religious views, while others think that abortion should be legal because of women's’ rights. Despite each view, abortions are becoming more and more common today, especially in the

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

procedure (Stacey 2014). Abortions usually insure the wellbeing of the mother, although the fetus has to die. There are six different ways to perform these surgical procedures mentioned for abortion that are legal in the United States today: dilation & curettage, dilation & evacuation, intra-cardiac injection, saline injection, prostaglandin,

Abortions are one many things that everyone has an opinion on. As defined by the 2012 Merriam- Webster dictionary, an Encyclopedia Britannica Company, an abortion is, “the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus as a spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation- miscarriage, the induced expulsion of a human fetus, or the expulsion of a fetus by a domestic animal often due to infection at

into consideration is the size of a child. Abortion at 8 weeks are usually suction abortions and they’re performed using a smaller tube, requiring little dilation of the cervix. This is called "menstrual extraction." If remains of the child are not removed, the woman could get infection and end up needing a second procedure that requires full dilation of the cervix. Suction Aspiration is the most common method of abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Anesthesia is given to the other and the

Incomplete Abortion 1. The American Heritage Medical Dictionary defines this as an abortion in which contents of the uterus (usually the placenta) are not completely expelled. 2. I found no causes or risk factors for incomplete abortion after looking through numerous sources. All I could find were causes and risk factors for abortions/miscarriages such as this list by Dr. Slava Gaufberg: chromosomal abnormalities, physical trauma, DM, severe HTN, infections, drug and alcohol abuse, and body abnormalities

Suction aspiration abortions are where the doctor inserts a suction tube into a woman’s womb and sucks the fetus out. Dilation and evacuation also requires a doctor to dilate the cervix but there are multiple tools used to remove the fetus from the uterus. Salt poisoning requires a doctor to remove amniotic fluid from the amniotic sac and replace it with saline solution

A 26-year-old otherwise healthy woman comes to the emergency department complaining of nausea and pelvic discomfort for the past 3 days. The pelvic discomfort worsens with sexual activity. She describes the discomfort as a pressure in her lower abdomen. She has one male sexual partner, and they use condoms occasionally. The patient has not had a menstrual period for the past 2 months. The patient has had a female partner in the past. Her most recent sexual encounter was 2 nights ago. She has never

When a person hears the word abortion, many thoughts and opinions probably come to their mind, but how much of it is based on facts? Abortion is defined by Webster’s dictionary as the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus. The subject of abortion is a very controversial, which is usually presented from a biased point of view; however, the history it has, different types, laws, and statistics on women who have abortions