Information on Abortion

Abortion is not just a simple medical procedure. For many women, it is a life changing event with significant physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences. Most women who struggle with past abortions say that they wish they had been told all the facts about abortion.
There are two kinds of abortion, surgical and medical.

Suction Curettage is the most common surgical procedure in doing abortions. This procedure is used within 6 to 14 weeks of pregnancy after Last Menstrual Period. (LMP)

In this procedure, the doctor opens the cervix with different size dialators ( metal rods) or Laminaria (thin sticks derived from plants and inserted 24 hours before the procedure). The doctor inserts tubing into the uterus and connects the tubing to a suction machine. The suction pulls the fetus’ body apart and out of the uterus. One variation of this procedure is called Dilation and Curettage (D&C). In this method, the doctor may use a curette, a loop-shaped knife, to scrape the fetal parts out of the uterus. (see illustration)

Risks of Surgical Abortion

Great care must be taken to prevent the uterus from being punctured during this procedure, which may cause hemorrhage and necessitate further surgery. Also, infection can easily develop if any fetal or placental tissue is left behind in the uterus. This is the most frequent post-abortion complication. Others include...

Is It Safe?

Perhaps the most accurate answer comes from an abortion textbook written by one of America’s most prominent abortion doctor, Warren Hern, MD Abortion Practice, Lippincott, 1990.

“...there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazards as abortion... It is a commonly held view that complications are inevitable.”

RU486, Mifepristone is used within 4 to 7 weeks after Last Menstrual Period

This procedure usually requires three office visits. Upon taking the drug, the uterine lining softens and breaks down, causing the developing baby to be expelled from the uterus. At your first of three appointments, you will go to a doctor’s office or clinic and have a pelvic exam, blood test, and a vaginal ultrasound exam to determine the age of your baby. You will take a single oral dose (three pill, or 600 milligrams) of mifeprostone, If the abortion does not occur within two days, you sill need to return to the clinic and take another drug, called misoprostol, which causes the uterus to contract. In most cases (95%), these contractions begin within one to four hours and the baby, tissue, and blood will come out of your vagina within twenty-four hours. About twelve days later, the doctor will need to examine you to make sure that you are no longer pregnant.

RU 486 may fail in up to 1 out of every 20 cases in resulting an incomplete abortion and a surgical abortion was recommended.

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Risks of Medical Abortion

Some side affects include; nausea abdominal pain vomiting heavy and extended bleeding
heart attack hemorrhage impaired future fertility

Emergency Contraception (also known as the morning-after pill)

This pill is a high dosage of steroid female hormones. It is recommended to be used after sexual intercourse, within 72 hours, to achieve the goal of preventing or ending pregnancy.

How does it work?

  1. Ovulation is inhibited, meaning the egg will not be released;
  2. The normal menstrual cycle is altered, delaying ovulation;
  3. It can alter the lining of the uterus so that if the 1st and 2nd actions fail, and the woman does become pregnant, the baby girl or boy will die before he/she can actually attach to the lining of the uterus.

Risks of taking the Morning After Pill

There are no long term studies to show whether women will be permanently damaged, or risk such diseases as cancer, as a result of these chemicals being given in such high doses.

Emergency contraception offers no protection against STD’s. Including AIDS.

Some people are less troubled by chemical abortions because the baby is very small and may not be as recognizably human as an older fetus. But because human life begins at conception, there is no moral difference between chemical abortions-such as RU- 486 (mifepristone) and surgical abortions at the same or later stage of pregnancy. Planned chemical or surgical abortion at any stage involves a mother’s deliberate choice to end a separate, distinct human life.

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