Dilation and curettage

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    #1 Spontaneous Abortion 1. Definition: • The termination of a pregnancy before the fetus is able to live outside of the uterus (before 20 weeks), most often called a miscarriage. 2. What are the causes/risk factors: • Weakened cervix • Immune system response • Physical issues within the mother • Abnormalities of the uterus • Fertilized egg implants in the uterus incorrectly • hormone problems • Infection • Risk factors:  Lifestyle such as excessive caffeine intake, drug use, or smoking …

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    than a home vacuum is inserted into the womb and tears the baby's limbs up and the placenta and sucks into to a medical waste bottle. Then there is dilation and curettage. Ring forceps are inserted into the womb and the baby is taken apart piece by piece then a curettage (A sharp round knife) is inserted to scrape out the placenta and remains. Dilation and extraction is where forceps are inserted into the womb and clamps a limb and twists it and pulls it off. This method requires the doctor to…

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    pregnancy, which is mostly performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy. There are four types of abortion procedures during first trimester, and three types of abortion procedures during the second trimester. One of them is “Dilation and Curettage,” which is a procedure used to terminate a pregnancy up to 16 weeks. Although there is an abortion procedure for the third semester; they are not legal in many…

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    the three procedures, vacuum aspiration, suction curettage, or medication abortion. Vacuum aspirations can be done manually or by a machine. Manual vacuum aspirations involves the use of a syringe to suck the fetus out of the body. Machine vacuum aspirations use a cannula which gently sucks the fetus out. The suction curettage procedure involves going inside of the uterus and pulling out body parts of the fetus piece by piece (Dilation and Curettage With Suction). Medication abortion is usually…

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    Abortion is the termination of pregnancy. Many women or couples decide to abort for many different reasons. When a woman come to this decision they usually have three different methods to choose from. This method used typically depends on how far the fetus is developed, or in other words what trimester the women is in. The three-abortion classification are surgical, medical, and spontaneous. This paper will analysis these three methods, briefly, and some of the side effects abortion could have…

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    woman’s right to her body and that she may do whatever she wants with her body. However, abortion still ends the life of another human being through the following abortion methods: Suction Aspiration, Suction Curettage, Salt Poisoning, Prostaglandin Chemical Abortion, DIY Abortion, and Dilation and Extraction, which may cause health issues to the woman’s body and is the reason why abortions need to stop. The first method of abortion is Suction Aspiration. This method of abortion is “common in…

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    (Merino) There are four different types of abortions. 90 percent of all abortions in the first trimester are safe. (Steven) If abortion is performed later in pregnancy there would be a lot of serious complications. Suction curettage is the most common early procedure. Suction curettage can be done in between the seventh and twelfth week of a pregnancy. In this process a thin plastic tube is inserted through the birth canal into the cervix and into the cavity of the uterus. Then a suction is…

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    Abortion Is Wrong

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    must take that into consideration when they are thinking about doing the procedure. You may not be able to have children in the future and you can have blood clots in the uterus. It causes extreme cramps and is usually discarded by repeated suction curettage. You can have an incomplete abortion which means the fetal parts or other products of the pregnancy may have not been completely removed for the uterus. This causes infections and bleeding. Abortions can cause a torn cervix. The opening of…

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    When meeting Amber the first time in elementary, she had the brightest personality. All through junior high nothing had changed. Amber had carried herself with such a humbling character. Although no one would have figured she had been through such a traumatic event during her summer vacation as she was going to eighth grade, she was raped. As Amber and her friend grew closer over the years the situations that were questioned about her when she was not around became clear. The girl in…

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    Modern Medicine or Allopathy is a medical practise that uses biomedicine or western medicine or mainstream medicine. The basis of this treatment is that it uses agents that produce effects different from the disesase treated.The symptoms in this case are different from the symptom produced by the disease . The biggest advantage is quickness of treatment . So much research has gone into this practise that it saves life more efficiently than any other form of therapy . Along with highly…

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