What you should know about abortion Abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by his death. The spontaneous expulsion of the fetus or embryo before the 20th week of gestational age is commonly called a miscarriage.
Induced abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus by means medical, surgical, or at any other time during pregnancy for therapeutic or elective reasons. The approximate number of induced abortions performed worldwide in 2003 was 42 million euros.
The modern history of abortion laws in the West dates back to English common law, which allowed abortion before the "acceleration" of the fetus. Currently, abortion law varies from country to country regarding religious, moral, and cultural sensitivities.
Throughout history, abortion has been caused by different methods of traditional medicine, including botanical abortifacients, the use of sharp tools, and abdominal pressure.
Moral and legal aspects of abortion are subject to intense social debate in many parts of the world. Aspects of this debate can understand the public health impact of unsafe abortion or illegal, and the effect of legal abortion on crime rates, and the ramifications of the practices based on gender. Other debates are assuming breast cancer to abortion, post-abortion syndrome, and fetal pain. Moral arguments often equate abortion to murder, or denial of abortion to oppression of women.
Most places that do a medical abortion using methotrexate and misoprostol up to seven weeks after the start of your last period. When mifepristone and misoprostol combination is available, it can be used a little longer, up to nine weeks after your last period.
A medical abortion uses drugs to clear the contents of the uterus. medical termination of pregnancy can be done in early pregnancy. There are two combinations of drugs used to induce abortions. A, methotrexate and misoprostol. Two, mifepristone (RU 486) and misoprostol.
Only the first combination is currently available in Canada. The second combination mifepristone (RU 486) and misoprostol is not currently authorized to sell in Canada.
Methotrexate is a drug used to treat psoriasis and cancer. It also blocks the growth of pregnancy when administered to a woman early in pregnancy. Methotrexate is usually administered by injection.
Misoprostol is a drug used to treat stomach ulcers. It allows the muscles of the uterus to contract, pushing the content. Tablets of misoprostol are placed in the vagina five to seven days after the methotrexate injection is administered.
In most cases, the uterus will be emptied within 24 hours, but in about 35 percent of cases, it may take several days or weeks. cons pain medication is used to relieve pain from cramps that occur when the pregnancy tissue comes out of the uterus.
The drugs that induce medical abortions cause congenital malformations. A woman who takes these drugs must be prepared to have a surgical abortion if medical abortion is unsuccessful. A follow-up examination is one or two weeks after the methotrexate injection to ensure that the abortion took place.
MVA is a simple procedure done in early pregnancy, which uses the suction of a syringe to remove the pregnancy tissue from the uterus. A local anesthetic is used to numb the cervix and medications to reduce pain and anxiety can also be offered.
A thin tube is guided through the opening of the cervix into the uterus. The syringe is attached to the tube and used to remove the contents of the uterus. It takes less than ten minutes.
This procedure is done early in pregnancy during the first seven to eight weeks from the beginning of your last period. You should have a follow-up examination three wee.
Posted on March 7, 2010.
