Abortion is the removal embryo or fetus from the uterus. The expulsion of a fetus or embryo before the 22th week of gestational age (the age of pregnancy) is commonly known as a miscarriage. Induced abortion is the removal embryo or fetus, usually by surgical or medication method.
The number of induced abortions performed worldwide every year is approximately 46 million. 26 million abortions occur in places where abortion is legal, the other 20 million happen where the any abortion procedure is illegal.
From all performed abortion, approximately
- - 1.2% were 22 weeks or older
- - 10.0% were 13-20 weeks
- - 88.8% were 12 and under
Our history and knowledge tell us that abortion has been induced by various methods of traditional medicine (use specific plants or mix of), the use of sharpened tools and abdominal pressure. Currently, abortion laws vary from country to country, depend on religious, moral, and cultural sensibilities each country.
Decision to have an abortion
Decision to have an abortion can be hard choice. But, we believe that all women have to have the right to make choose. Every woman that feels an abortion is in her or her family's best interests, should have access to safe abortion as well as to advices and help.
Today approximately 25% of the people around the world lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws. The main world's areas that restrictive abortion as Latin America, Africa and Asia. Some countries have restricted by law. In Chili, women still will go to prison for having an illegal abortion.
Why not advised use Misoprostol (Cytotec) abortion pills after 23 week of pregnancy
Misoprostol (Cytotec) should not be used after 23 weeks pregnancy. The fetus is mature enough to able live outside the woman�s body. Misoprostol (Cytotec) abortion after 23 week can result in the birth of a living baby.
Although Misoprostol (Cytotec) is very effective in late pregnancy weeks, the risk of complications is multiplied. This is reason to do an abortion as soon as possible, better before 15 weeks, because abortion after 15 weeks have high complication risk and is very traumatic.
Abortion in more advanced pregnancy period increase the chance of complications rapidly; woman will experience severe bleeding. If you anyway decide to have abortion in late period, you can do it directly in hospital waiting room or some public place like restaurant, cafe, cinema close to hospital. So, you can reach the hospital and receive help of medical staff quickly.
Don't forget, if in your country abortion is prosecuted, you have to tell the doctor you had a miscarriage. If you will be careful and think forward, your abortion will be successful without complication for you.
What is medication abortion?
Medication abortion is safe method for terminating unwanted pregnancy. Medication abortion is non-surgical method initiated by specific drugs. medication abortion is very effective method for women having unwanted pregnancy. During medication abortion uterus to expel the products of conception.
It is important to have ultrasound confirmation of pregnancy before use any abortion medication for avoid mistake.
In cases of failure the first use, medication abortion can be repeat. In case if medication abortion is not occur, vacuum aspiration (or other method) is used to complete the abortion surgically.
Currently exist 3 methods of medication abortion, used for pregnancy termination with gestational ages up to 22 weeks. All three methods include medicine named Misoprostol (Cytotec):
1) Misoprostol alone
2) Mifepristone and Misoprostol
3) Methotrexate and Misoprostol
Detailed comparison all three method will be given on Why Misoprostol (Cytotec)? page.
Another abortion method named Vacuum Aspiration is Surgical Abortion. This is invasive procedure require at least one visit to clinic, some diagnostic procedures, may not be available for very early pregnancy. Surgical abortion often need some sedation that affect total price of abortion procedure and make it enough high. From other side, vacuum aspiration completed within minutes and have very high success rate up to 99%. Biggest disadvantages are: visit to clinic, non-privacy procedure, high cost of abortion and direct invase.
Abortion methods
Dilation and curettage (D&C) is used to treat various uterine conditions in non-pregnant women. However, as an abortion procedure it dismembers the unborn child.Abortion by dilation and curettage
The mother's cervix (neck of the womb) has to be stretched open prior to the abortion. This can cause damage leading to the death or premature delivery of a baby in a subsequent pregnancy. According to doctors, in Britain steps are now taken in National Health Service hospital abortions to soften the cervix to minimise this risk. However, this is not required by law and it is not known whether such measures are taken in private sector abortions.
To check if any fetal parts might still be in the womb a nurse has to examine the baby's remains, but the abortion may still be incomplete with risks of haemorrhage and sepsis (Abortion hazards, GP, 11 May 1979).
Abortion by vacuum aspiration
Suction abortion - in which the fetus is dismembered (torn apart) by a vaccuum machine - is the most common early surgical technique.The cervix (the neck of the womb) must be stretched open to allow the surgeon to insert a plastic tube into the womb. Sharp-edged openings near the tip of the tube help to dismember the baby so the parts are small enough to be sucked out. The surgeon then uses the suction tube to evacuate the placenta from the womb. The remains of the baby are deposited in a jar for disposal.
This is the technique that abortion promoters call "safe, early abortion". However, the vast majority of abortions are performed on healthy young women for non-medical reasons, and abortionists rarely explain the health risks to their clients.
Vacuum aspiration accounts for around 90% of abortions in England and Wales up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, and it is used for around half of abortions performed between 13 and 19 weeks. When used at 13-19 weeks, it is often necessary to use other instruments to remove or crush parts of the baby that are too large to pass through the tube.
Abortion by hysterotomy
This abortion procedure (although comparatively rare) is essentially the same as a caesarian section birth: the mother's abdomen is cut open and the child - typically still alive - is removed from the womb. In Britain, although there has always been a legal duty of care towards a liveborn baby who survives an abortion, there have been documented cases of such babies being left to die.Since 1990 legislation has allowed the deliberate destruction of a child up to birth when a pregnancy is terminated under the relevant grounds in the Abortion Act. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), the professional body to which most doctors performing abortions belong, issued advice to its members in a 1996 paperTermination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality.
They advised surgeons to take steps to kill the baby before delivery, e.g. by cutting the umbilical cord to stop the infant's oxygen supply. This was to avoid the risk of possible legal action if a baby should be 'liveborn' and then die after abortion.
The risks of hysterotomy for the mother have long been known. They include peritonitis, rupture of the operation scar in a future pregnancy, thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (The [Lane] Report on the Working of the Abortion Act, Vol 1, HMSO, 1974).
Abortion by salt-poisoning
A concentrated salt solution is injected into the amniotic fluid, killing the baby by acute salt poisoning. This technique is used after 16 weeks. It is no longer common in many Western countries because of its dangers to the mother, but pro-abortionists have exported this cheap technique for abortions to the majority world (developing countries) such as India.It takes over an hour for the baby to die. After 24 hours, the mother goes into labour and delivers the dead child (although there are recorded cases of American babies, including singer Gianna Jessen, having survived the procedure).
Like animals, babies cannot tell us whether they are in pain. One indication of suffering is their reaction to what we would find painful.
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