whats abortion?

Question

how does the doctor do abortions? and what happens after its done with the patient?

Answer 1

Abortion - elective or therapeutic

Contents of this page:
Illustrations
Alternative names
Definition
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Symptoms
Signs and tests
Treatment
Expectations (prognosis)
Complications
Calling your health care provider
Prevention


Illustrations

First trimester of pregnancy

Normal uterine anatomy (cut section)

Early weeks of pregnancy


Alternative names Return to top

Therapeutic abortion; Elective abortion
Definition Return to top

Elective or therapeutic abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy.

Causes, incidence, and risk factors Return to top

Elective abortions are those initiated by personal choice. Therapeutic abortions are those recommended by the health care provider to protect the mother's physical or mental health. In the United States, one legal abortion occurs for every four live births.

Symptoms Return to top

Early pregnancy symptoms include:

Breast tenderness
Breast swelling
Discoloration of breast areola
Nausea
Light-headedness or dizziness
Missed periods
Signs and tests Return to top

A pelvic examination is performed to confirm pregnancy and estimate the weeks of gestation. A serum HCG blood test may be performed to confirm pregnancy. A vaginal or abdominal ultrasound may be used to determine gestational age and location.

Treatment Return to top

Most elective abortions take place between 8 and 12 weeks of gestation. The traditional procedure consists of dilating the cervix and removing the contents of the uterus by suctioning the inner walls of the uterus.

Recently, medications have become available to terminate an early pregnancy (prior to 7 weeks of gestation). These medications include mifepristone, methotrexate, misoprostol, or a combination of these medications. Most women who use medication do so because of a desire to avoid anesthesia and surgery if at all possible.

Side effects of medication may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, warmth or chills, headache, more visits to the doctor’s office, prolonged vaginal bleeding, and more aware of cramping than with surgical abortion. With medication, passage of the products of conception most likely will occur at home, but some women may still require surgical evacuation (D and E) to complete the abortion. The success rate has been shown to be around 95%.

Expectations (prognosis) Return to top

Legally performed abortions are relatively safe. Complications rarely occur. A first trimester legal abortion is physically safer for a woman than giving birth.

Complications Return to top

Excessive loss of blood, uterine perforation and infection, and an incomplete abortion are the most frequent complications. These complications are rare when the procedure is performed by a competent provider in an adequate facility.

Teenagers may not be aware that they are pregnant until the second trimester and could increase the danger to their own lives with second trimester abortions. Infection resulting from the procedure occurs most commonly in women who have a preexisting gonorrheal or chlamydial infection.

Calling your health care provider Return to top

Call for an appointment with your health care provider if an unplanned pregnancy occurs and you want information about the choice of elective abortion.

Call your health care provider if an elective or therapeutic abortion has been performed and vaginal bleeding continues beyond what was predicted, or if you continue to have symptoms of pregnancy or severe pain. Excessive bleeding can cause shock. Continued pain or pregnancy symptoms may indicate a possible ectopic or tubal pregnancy.

Call your health care provider if signs of infection develop, including persistent fever, foul odor to vaginal drainage, vaginal drainage that looks like pus, or abdominal pain or tenderness.

Prevention Return to top

Improved methods of contraception can help prevent many unplanned pregnancies. This includes education related to abstinence, or, in the case of chosen sexual activity, contraception education.

Contraceptive methods do not always prevent pregnancy -- unplanned pregnancies occur even when couples practice adequate methods of contraception to the best of their abilities.

Sometimes, a woman chooses to terminate a pregnancy that results from a sexual assault, one that endangers her health, or one in which the fetus is abnormal.


Update Date: 6/3/2004

Updated by: Dominic Marchiano, M.D., Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA and Peter Chen, M.D., Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.



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Answer 2

There are a few different kinds of abortions...

First of all, an abortion is when a woman has a doctor kill the baby inside of her womb.

If it's within the first 6 months of the pregnancy, the doctor will give the woman a pill to kill the unborn baby.

After that there are a series of surguries.
1. The doctor inserts clamps into the womb and crushes the baby's head, then vacumes all the parts out.
2. The doctor injects a poison into the baby directly through a very long needle, then pulls the baby out.
3. The doctor induces labor and pulls the baby out feet first but leaves the head in so the baby is not all the way born yet. Then the doctor takes scissors and cuts the baby's spinal cord near the base of the skull, and takes the baby out. This is also known as partial-birth abortion.

Answer 3

There's two types, surgical and medical.
Medical abortions are where the doc gives you a pill and it causes the lining of the uterus to thin, therefore causing a sort of miscarriage. You will have to go back to the doctor for another medicine. You will bleed for several weeks. This is only done in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy.
Surgical abortion is where the doctor uses a suction machine to suck out the contents of the womb. You may be put to sleep or just given pills to help you relax. The doctor gives you a shot in the cervix to numb you. The cervix is opened and the contents are sucked out. It's probably the second worst pain next giving birth, if you aren't put under anesthesia, but it only lasts a few minutes and you will be able to hold the nurses hand. You bleed on and off for a couple of weeks, you can only use pads and no sex for a couple of weeks.
Hope this helps, i've had a surgical abortion, and honestly even though it hurt like hell, it's not really worth paying the extra for anesthesia.. unless your insurance happens to cover the abortion.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion

There's most of the information.

Abortions are a way to remove the fetus before birth. They can be done chemically with pills (morning-after pill, plan B). Also, doctors can also do something called a D&E (dilation and curettage). They basically go in and scrap the lining of the uterus out (done for other reasons too). Or they do it with suction.

The surgical methods can be dangerous. If any peice of the fetus is left in, it can cause an infection.

Read more about it on wikipedia. Or google it.

Answer 5

If pregnancy test is positive then one should go forward for the MTP Kit as it is used to terminate the unwanted pregnancy.
MTP Kit is used to terminate the pregnancy of 63 days or 9 weeks. The MTP Kit is a combination of two medicines called Mifepristone and Misoprostol. It contains 5 tablets. And the good taking procedure is to have one tablet orally of Mifepristone 200mg and then after 48 hours or 3 days four tablet of Misoprostone 200mg inserted vaginally. And then follow up it for 10 days and go for doctor's consult.

Answer 6

abortion is done on pregnant woman who no longer or can no longer keep there baby living inside them the doctor basically removes the baby thru surgery that is very grousome to all concerned.if u want to know more just type abortion in google and c what u can come up with..or click this link and read it..

Answer 7

abortion is when a mother Can no longer carry the baby . (e.g. it was an unwanted birth, medical reason etc.) and the doctor will give a needle with poison in it and kill the baby inside .. but it must be done within a certain amount of time, or you must give birth to the baby.

Answer 8

abortion is when a pregnant woman goes in to a "special doctor" and has her baby suck out of her and after its done she has to take pills and it may be hard for her to get pregnant again

Answer 9

Please be careful about asking this question here. This is a very HOT topic, and most people who answer have an agenda. Go to a local Planned Parenthood or community health clinic for objective advice.

Answer 10

dont let anyone say its a choice or its not a baby, because its a baby it shouldn't be a choice. here is the information on abortion though

http://www.lifesite.net/abortiontypes/