Ways of Performing Abortions Medical abortion offers a new alternative to women in the U.S. seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Medical abortion uses drugs to stop the development of the embryo and to cause uterine cramping and bleeding that expels the pregnancy. Medical abortion is available early in pregnancy-before seven to nine weeks from a woman's last menstrual period, depending on the method used. More than 90% of women who use medical abortion successfully terminate their pregnancies. Otherwise, a suction abortion is done. Side effects to the drugs used in a medical abortion are usually mild and may include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain/cramping, dizziness, vaginal bleeding, and headache. Pregnancy termination may be completed within a few days after the administration of medications or it may take up to 1 month. The pregnancy may be passed at an unpredictable or inconvenient time. The woman may see the pregnancy tissue. She will want to consider these factors in her decision making process. What is suction abortion? Suction abortion is a technique that has been used since 1967. It is a relatively simple and safe procedure. · The physician first does a bimanual exam (using one hand on the abdomen and two fingers in the vagina) to determine how many weeks pregnant you are. · A sterile cloth is then put over your legs and abdomen and a sterile speculum is inserted into the vagina to view your cervix. · Next, your cervix is numbed by several small injections of local anesthetic in and around it. (Let your practitioner know if you are allergic to any medications.) The injections may cause a stinging or burning sensation. · A clamp called a tenaculum is then used to hold the cervix steady for the duration of the procedure. The size of the uterus may be measured internally by inserting a thin probe. This may result in some cramping. The opening in the cervix is dilated which may again result in some cramping. · A small, flexible plastic tube (about the size of a pencil) is
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GCSE English: non fiction writing. Choose either a topic or a person as the basis for your writing. If a topic, research all aspects of the issue and then write about it in your own words. Include your own views, with reasons. If a person, give reasons for your choice and say why you think he or she is important. Minimum of 600 words.
Your lower abdomen will be shaved and washed with an antiseptic soap. A thin, flexible tube (catheter) will be placed in your bladder through the urethra.
To reduce the incidence of bleeding and trauma, a sterile liquid solution is infused into the areas being treated via a cannula.
Abortion is the ending of pregnancy before the fetus can live independently outside the mothers womb. Pregnant mothers who use abortion, use abortion as an option because they have the fear that their family will judge them by their mistakes. () 50% of U.S. women having abortions are younger than 25. Women between the age of 20-24 have 33% of all U.S abortions. There are 17% of teenagers having abortions. Abortion to a minor is easier to persuade to, because a minor has no idea what will happen. They have their whole life ahead of them and their future my just be starting. Along with minors, adults use abortions as an early choice. Girls who become pregnant use abortion as an easy way out. The different types of abortion all lead to death. That means murder; a baby/fetus is killed. A baby heart forms and starts beating in the fifth week of pregnancy; therefore, that would make abortion murder. The baby that is growing inside of the woman is depending on her, so when she makes the choice to end that baby's life, they are making the choice to murder another person.Every day, minors, adults, and even married couples make the wrong decision by using abortion. The quick decision of abortion blinds the eye of the mother. They seem to ignore the fact that the baby in them will be killed.
If you have ever felt like you have had a brother or sister, you could possibly be correct, because research has proven that there has been 56,993,299 abortions since 1973, and it has not stopped ever since.
Methods of Abortion Abortion is the name given to the process in which a fetus is purposely killed due to personal or life threatening reasons. There are 7 different methods of abortion available around the world. There is the RU-468, which is a drug, which can be used after the mother misses her first period. It works by cutting of the baby's supply of progesterone. Without this hormone the baby cannot get its supply of food and oxygen.
Abortion clinic doctors state that abortion requires a 24-hour waiting period before one can get an abortion. They also add performing abortion is not an easy process and should not be done for wrong purpose. One abortion doctor who works in Wisconsin Planned Parenthood stated that he is required to read carefully each woman a list of risks and alternatives before he can perform an abortion, and the list must be signed between the woman and the doctor. He also claims every woman must take a risk of abortion and the decisions made by them are made after serious considerations. In addition, he says about 10% of the women who visited his clinic for counseling do not come back for an abortion(Zernike).
During the most common abortion, they inject poison into the baby’s head, then they proceed to pull off each body part of the baby crushing all organs until they get to the head. They crush the skull and pull it out as the last step; this is called a Dilation and Evacuation (D & E) (2nd Trimester Surgical Abortion). Any interruption that takes place after twenty-eight weeks of being pregnant is known as an abortion (Abortion 1). What does the term abort mean? There are many different ways to describe what “abort” means. One way it can be used is that when you abort a mission you are leaving it before the mission is completed. When aborting a baby, this is essentially what is being done. “aborting” a mission, or in this case a pregnancy, that
Some people would be surprised to hear that every 30 seconds a family decides to abort their child; every hour 120 families choose to abort their baby; there have been a total of 56.5 million abortions in the U.S between the years on 1973-2013. Statistics show that many families are deciding to abort their children because they claim that they either aren’t ready to have a child, the child will interfere with their work, or schooling, or that they don’t have enough money to support their child,so they decide to abort the baby. But, another problem that the U.S has been leading into, is deciding to have an abortion as late
Abortion is a serious issue and ethical dilemma that touches moral, religious, and ideological points. The right to live is protected by the constitution and has been debated on for decades. Major concerns revolve around choice, morality, and safety of the act. Those who support abortion state the reasons of freedom of choice and that the mother should be able to choose what happens to her body. Meanwhile, those who are against abortion give reasons of morality and the safety of the mother who decides to undertake abortion. Abortion in the United States was made contitutional in 1973 following the case of Roe v. Wade. Since then, the United States has adopted 1074 laws targeted at limiting abortion services, but remains law of the land. Despite
Did you know that that from 1973-2013 that 56.5 million legal abortions were counted (Abortion Methods). In just 2013, 664,435 legal induced abortions were reported, and that is in just one year (Abortion information and Resources). On average, 2,899 legal abortions being completed every single day (Abortion Methods). Many people think that abortion should be legal, but with the given statistics and information, abortion is very harmful and an inhuman thing to do, so it should be abolished.
Steps of Abortion 1) (a) When a woman is expecting a baby then usually the couple thinks of this as being good news. However, for some people 'pregnancy can be very bad news.' This is because they think that having a child will cause problems. Some examples of problems: a woman might have to take a break from her education or career in order to take care of the child; sometimes 'a woman might get pregnant without being married or in a stable relationship'; and a woman might get pregnant because of rape
Over the past few years there has been many controversial issues taking place in our society today and Abortion is one of them. Every since having an Abortion was possible people have had conflict with others deciding whether it is right or wrong. Abortion is said to be the most debated topic by Americans and there are many debates whether you should be for pro-choice or pro-life. I believe that people should be allowed to have an abortion whenever they want for many reasons. Also the three stages of Kohlberg’s theory cover Pre-conventional morality, conventional morality, and post-conventional morality.
Abortion is a procedure that has been legal since 1973 and this kind of procedure is mainly common in women of any age as long she can conceive. From my research I found that there is about “10 to 20 percent all women who have done this procedure have had some sort of impact” psychologically speaking.