third trimester of expectancy. Vacuum aspiration is the most popular abortion technique known. In aspiration abortion, a thin tube is inserted into the uterus and then connected to a source of suction. The woman is also dilated and drugged for pain. The whole procedure lasts a mere five minutes. If the embryo 's head is too big to be suctioned out, the doctor crushes the skull into pieces and continues to sweep the debris out through the small tube. Although aspiration is the most popular, there…
One of the most common and harmful ways to abort an unborn child happens in early pregnancies. Early surgical abortion procedures, such as aspiration, is used during the beginning stage of a mother's pregnancy. Most beginning procedures have the abortionist vacuum the fetus out of the uterus. Some short term effects of this are usually pain in the abdominal region and nausea. Not so common short term effects are continuous bleeding and damage to the…
Abortion is where a zygote is terminated and taken from the womb. This medical procedure can be done two ways; the first way is to enter an in-clinic abortion and the second by taking a pill. The in- clinic procedure starts with the clinic staff asking the patient if she would like to have an abortion via medication or a surgical abortion. Next, they let her consider all of her options. It is recommended that the patient obtains a sonogram to determine if the pregnancy is viable (uterine,…
#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 …
paragraph. II First Abortion is a deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. There are two types of abortion. The first and usually most used is the surgical abortion, which is a vacuum aspiration. The second is the abortion pill…
manual or electric vacuum aspiration, for pregnancies of gestational age up to 12-14 weeks. The second method of abortion is specifically, oral mifepristone followed by a single dose of misoprostol, for pregnancies of gestational age up to 9 weeks (63 days). This is where mifepristone is not available: misoprostol alone, in repeated doses. The other method is the dilation and curettage (D&D) is an absolute method of surgical abortion and should be replaced by vacuum aspiration and/or medical…
Abortion is a very touchy topic for many people. Some religions are strongly against abortion and have rallies to “Protect Life”. Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy; and by some is called murder of a baby. The reasons for an abortion are often judged and cause many arguments. For this reason, and many more, abortion is one of the major things discussed in Medical Law and Ethics. Abortion isn’t just open wide and let me scrape this baby out; there are two types of…
Children are a gift from God (New International Readers Version, Psalm 127-3). There are about 7 billion gifts (people) in the world. That’s 7 billion birthdays every single year. In America, women have the option to terminate their pregnancy due to any circumstance, ranging from not being financially able to support a child to not wanting to disappoint someone. Abortions should be illegal in the United States because, of the health risk that affect women after the procedure. It is plain out…
this is an abortion procedure where the cervix is widened and the fetus is suctioned out. UCSF Medical Center stated this an an abortion procedure performed by a professional to remove and embryo or fetus. There are 2 types of surgical abortions, Aspiration and Dilate and Evacuate (D&E). Each abortion available depends on how many weeks along the mother it, as reported by Medline Plus. REVIEW OF…
Between 1962 and 1965 an epidemic of German measles invaded the United States. The effects of the measles causes deformities within the children. (Gold 15) The defects of the babies who were affected by the measles was partial motivation for the Pro-Abortion movement in the late 60’s and early 70’s. On January 23, 1973 the United States supreme court ruled that women have the constitutional right to abort a pregnancy. This constitutional right struck down laws in 31 states and required 18…