How Abortion is Done
Abortion means ending a pregnancy before the fetus (unborn child) can live independently outside the mother. If abortion happens spontaneously before 24 weeks of pregnancy, it is called a miscarriage. An induced (or "therapeutic") abortion is caused deliberately in order to end the pregnancy.
Abortions are (most safely) done in the first trimester (before the 12th week of pregnancy). Pregnancy weeks are counted from the first day of the woman's most recent menstrual period. The type of abortion performed depends on how far the pregnancy has progressed.
There are two procedures used to abort they include medical and surgical abortions.
Medical Abortion
During the first 49 days of pregnancy, a medical termination is possible without surgery. Medical abortion uses two different drugs, methotrexate or mifepristone, which may be followed by another drug called misoprostol. While these drugs cause an abortion without surgical procedures such as dilation and vacuum, they do take longer to work than surgical abortion but they are perfect and will do the job for you.
These drugs work by blocking progesterone, a crucial hormone during pregnancy. Without progesterone, the uterine lining does not provide food, fluid and oxygen to the tiny developing baby. The baby cannot survive. A second drug is then given that stimulates the uterus to contract and the baby is expelled.
You may experience nausea, severe cramping, vomiting and bleeding. But the result is an aborted fetus.
Surgical Abortion
Vacuum aspiration (the suction method) is a surgical type of abortion. It is a surgical procedure that involves anesthesia (mild sedation) and can be performed within the first trimester of pregnancy. During vacuum aspiration, the cervix (opening of the uterus) is gently dilated (widened) about a quarter-inch, a narrow tube is inserted through the vagina and cervix to the uterus, and then pregnancy and contents of the uterine internal lining are vacuumed out. The procedure takes only a couple minutes and the woman can usually return home later in the day.
Why women and teens abort?
Abortion is not a light decision to go through. Many women realize that they have decided to get read off a life that would otherwise live. But there are issues that take them to that decision and for that we have to respect that choice.
Women decide to abort for one or more of the following reasons:
Financial Instability:
Would be mothers realize that their own financial well being is not stable. They struggle for everything that comes into their life, if their own life is such a struggle how about if they add on a new one? Children are extremely expensive creatures.
A baby will be completely impossible to manage when you can not look after your own self.
One other thing it is easier and far better to abort than to dump a leaving child in some sewer or dustbin. It is easier to leave with abortion than with a dumped child.
This fact makes women to abort and get read off a fetus than a leaving person.
Negative Impact on the Mothers Life:
Have a child out of wedlock or outside a marriage is no easy decision. It may lead to the total degradation of the mothers life. It is therefore better for the mother to get an abortion than to go through with the pregnancy because of the consequences.
Relationship problems /unwillingness to be a single mother:
Many would be mothers do not have stable relationships, having a child means being single mothers. It means fending for this child for the rest of its life or to have a permanent stool at the courts to force the father to help. That is if you know who the father is.
It these issues that force women to go through an abortion and survive the consequences.
Other reasons:
Other reasons are medical and other personal issues. But whatever motivates you to have an abortion it is your choice that we have to accept and appreciate. No person has reason to judge you. It is a private choice. In any case where will these people be when you are raising the child. They will be no where and it will be your baby.
It is your choice.