Every day abortions have caused an innumerable amount of mothers to take the lives of their unborn. Abortion, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is “the termination of pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus as a spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first twelve 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 any time before completion of pregnancy.” As the contentious dispute progressed, there became two distinct positions; people were either pro-choice or pro-life. Pro-life, as based on Palmer Williams, an Associate Counsel for the ACLJ policy, follows the
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Only in the eighteen hundreds were abortions finally deemed illegal. Lacking advances in the medical field caused medical procedures and surgeries such as abortions to become extremely risky and highly unsuccessful. Due to this complication, a majority of the women back then relied on “back ally abortions”, also known as illegal abortions. An example would be the wired hanger method in which a woman would thrust the wired hanger into their vagina and hopefully direct it through their cervix. This method does not always guarantee success but instead it often leads to great deals of discomforts and pain. By 1973, abortions were finally made legal in the Supreme Court ruling in Roe vs Wade. The court ruled that women are to have the rights to decide whether or not they want to have children without interference from the …show more content…
For example, during the first trimester a woman would either have a medical abortion or a surgical abortion. As stated by the American Pregnancy Association, there are two types of medical abortions including: Methotrexate and Misoprostol. Both Methotrexate and Misoprostol are combined into an abortion pill and is to be ingested by the patient. This procedure is often done during the first seven to nine weeks of a pregnancy. And as for surgical abortion, there are also two forms; manual vacuum aspiration and aspiration. These two types of surgical abortions are done up to the sixteenth week of pregnancy. Once the sixteenth week hits the fetus will start to become more developed; its bones will start to harden, its internal organs will start to function, and its sex can be determined. As the woman enters her second trimester three types of procedures will need to be followed: dilation and curettage, dilation and evacuation, and the induction abortion. According to a Mayo Clinic Staff, dilation and curettage is a procedure in which doctors will open a woman’s cervix and remove the uterine tissue. This is synonymous to aspiration. Dilation and evacuation differs from this in that it is a combination of both vacuum aspiration and dilation and curettage. Before this procedure could begin it is required for an ultrasound to be done; the size of the uterus as well as the numbers of
Only in the eighteen hundreds were abortions finally deemed illegal. Lacking advances in the medical field caused medical procedures and surgeries such as abortions to become extremely risky and highly unsuccessful. Due to this complication, a majority of the women back then relied on “back ally abortions”, also known as illegal abortions. An example would be the wired hanger method in which a woman would thrust the wired hanger into their vagina and hopefully direct it through their cervix. This method does not always guarantee success but instead it often leads to great deals of discomforts and pain. By 1973, abortions were finally made legal in the Supreme Court ruling in Roe vs Wade. The court ruled that women are to have the rights to decide whether or not they want to have children without interference from the …show more content…
For example, during the first trimester a woman would either have a medical abortion or a surgical abortion. As stated by the American Pregnancy Association, there are two types of medical abortions including: Methotrexate and Misoprostol. Both Methotrexate and Misoprostol are combined into an abortion pill and is to be ingested by the patient. This procedure is often done during the first seven to nine weeks of a pregnancy. And as for surgical abortion, there are also two forms; manual vacuum aspiration and aspiration. These two types of surgical abortions are done up to the sixteenth week of pregnancy. Once the sixteenth week hits the fetus will start to become more developed; its bones will start to harden, its internal organs will start to function, and its sex can be determined. As the woman enters her second trimester three types of procedures will need to be followed: dilation and curettage, dilation and evacuation, and the induction abortion. According to a Mayo Clinic Staff, dilation and curettage is a procedure in which doctors will open a woman’s cervix and remove the uterine tissue. This is synonymous to aspiration. Dilation and evacuation differs from this in that it is a combination of both vacuum aspiration and dilation and curettage. Before this procedure could begin it is required for an ultrasound to be done; the size of the uterus as well as the numbers of