Question on abortion... read before replying please!?

Question

This is a serious question, and I'm not pregnant or considering abortion, I'm just curious. Personally I will never comment on peoples views on the subject unless I'm put in the position to be able to comment i.e. unwanted pregnancy for any reason.

I've heard there are various kinds and methods of termination and was wondering what they were and how they effect people? Are different ones perhaps more emotional, more painful etc? I'm mainly curious as I'm doing research on it for a uni report. And would like if at all possible to have the "personal" touch to it. And asking on here is easier to ask than badgering women in public.

If you aren't comfortable answering or don't want me to possibly use your views then don't reply! I understand it's a dificult for many :o)

Thank you for your time,

Xx~xX

Cheers tabithap, was just about to say the same! Proof that a lot of people on here don't read the questions or the details properly. It even says "read before replying" Sigh.
Xx~xX

Answer 1

okay I'm truly against abortion unless its for a medical reason or in cases of insect or rape but this is a topic that Ive researched alot and have 4 web sights that will give alot better information that this will they are
http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=bcus5724
http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=bcus4293
http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=bcus1143243
http://www.imnotsorry.net/

i hope these help the first 3 are board on the same sight the 2nd and 3rd these women are really nice and most will be willing to talk to talk openly the 4th on is sight that can be a little upsetting i came by it just by chance one day while doing research myself as to why some women do it

Answer 2

Its hard to answer your question as we don't have all the information. You don't mention whether she was seeing someone or not, although I'm presuming she did have a boyfriend or still does. So abortion is a possibility, but there's no way anyone on here can answer that question accurately. The other possibility is that she might have lost weight. 3 months is 12 weeks. If she lost 2 pounds a week for 12 weeks that works out at around 24 pounds and that might explain the flat stomach. You could just ask her if she'd lost weight, tell her how good she looks. If she did have an abortion and she'd wanted you to know, she'd have told you already. She may decide to confide in you if you are a discreet friend, but the fact that you're on here asking the world about her situation, might explain why she hasn't chosen to confide in you if she did have an abortion or miscarriage.

Answer 3

I've heard a lot of different abortion methods and I don't know how many are true, I know that there is the method where they have a medical type of vacuum (my friend had an abortion and this is the method that they used) where they basically such the lining of the uteris out. They also have the old school scraping method where they go in through the vagina and scrape the lining. I've heard of methods where it's after 90 days and they have to actually kill the baby which I think is horrible and I know is illegal and no good doctor would actually do this and so I don't know if it's true or not. I've also heard of a new age abortion technique where they massage areas inside and out and then you naturally abort the baby and I read about that in a feminist book and the woman who wrote it was on her 3rd abortion and had the previous two the other ways and preferred the third as it was unpainful and seemed more natural.

I personally wouldn't have an abortion, I think that adoption would be much better, but I do think that a legal option has to be present to avoid the alternative (women shoving hangers up their twats in attempts to do it themselves, this happened a lot in years past) Pro choice, anti abortion :)

Answer 4

First. Sorry for all the stupid responses from illiterate people who can't read. I did not see the part in your question where you asked what people's opinions of abortion were. I will answer the part I did see tho..
I contemplated having an abortion when I found out I was pregnant with my first baby (I did not go through with it). I went to the public health nurse. She made the appts at the hospital for me. 2 docs did the procedure. One would go by your word on your LMP the other required an ultrasound. I personally think she made sure my appts were with the one who needed an ultrasound because I cried through my whole appt with her and she knew I really did not want to go through with it. She had explained after my dates were verified, the Dr. would insert something like a sponge that would basically 'dry up' what was in my uterus so fetus could not survive (it would become deprived of nutrients and oxygen). It would be inserted and I would go home and carry on my merry way while I was doing this supposedly. 24 hours later, I was to go back so he could remove the said 'sponge thing' and then I would basically miscarry.
Looking back I am sure she made this seem much worse than it could be, and she never said, why don't you go to the clinic downtown etc.. I was there with my new engagement ring and the man I was going to marry (and did and we now have 2 children with 1 on the way). I have no regrets about keeping my son but I was in an ok place. Many woman aren't and do have to go through it (Hm, yes, for the record I still am very pro-choice). So although I did not go through with it, that is the procedure I would have had done. Hope it can help.

Answer 5

There are different kinds of procedures depending on the term of the pregnancy and the mother's health.
The most common is the pill form. Basically it causes a mis-carriage and normally invovled heavy cramping and bleeding.

There is also the "vacuum" procedure where they are able to basically "vacuum out the unborn fetus"

There is the the procedure for later pregnancies where they scrape out the uterus. This is also used in cases of late miscarriage or abortions due to health issues.

Then the partial birth is basically where they deliver the head of the fetus and terminate the life...by a few "grotesque" methods.

Most of the procedures result in around the same amount of
pain/discomfort physically.

As for the emotional side of..well that's a huge scope of things. First it depends on the reason for the abortion and what also results later in life. Obviously a mother who was trying to conceive having to abort is going to be a very painful event while a young woman who has premiscous sex and uses abortion for a substitute for birth control might not have an immediate emotional tole, but might haunt them later in life. You also have a lot of situations in where the mother is confused and that confusion can also bother them later in life as well. So the emotional side of it is not only a long term matter, but varies depending on each case..

Answer 6

I have been through an abortion myself. Though i always felt nothing about it was ever right until i was in the postion that my birth control pills counter acted with some antibiotics and i found myself with an unwanted pregnancy. I did what i had to do. I had an abortion. there are different way to have one done , but i don't know about all that. they have the mornign after pill that keep the fertilized egg from attchign to the wall thus causign a miscarriage basically. My abortion was a simple office visit where the vacuumed out the inside of my uterus. it sounds terrible and it was very hard on me. I felt i killed my child, and wondered what they would have been, but now i'm over it. I realize that my life would have been complicated by another child to care for and doign it solo..... i had one by the guy already. short after we broke up and he doesn't take care of the one we had. it took a toll of my emotions and i think any woman should have that choice, but only as a last resort, not like it is birth control.

Answer 7

The link below gives some good information. I also copied the info about when an abortion can take place.

When can an abortion be done?

Depending on how many weeks pregnant you are, you may have a choice between two or more types of abortion procedures. Medical and surgical methods available differ at each stage of pregnancy. As a pregnancy progresses into the second trimester, only surgical abortion can be used. Risks of second-trimester surgical abortion are higher than risks for first-trimester abortion.

Options include the use of medications, manual or mechanical vacuum aspiration, dilation and curettage (D&C), dilation and evacuation (D&E), or inducing labor and delivery with medication (induction).

Early first trimester (up to 7 weeks) Mifepristone with misoprostol
Methotrexate with misoprostol
Manual vacuum aspiration, as early as 3 weeks after last menstrual period (uses a tube attached to a handheld syringe that draws all tissue from within the uterus)

Late first trimester (7 to 12 weeks) Mifepristone with misoprostol
Methotrexate with misoprostol
(Medical abortion is less effective beyond 9 weeks.)
Manual vacuum aspiration
Machine vacuum aspiration (uses a tube attached to an electric pump that draws all tissue from within the uterus)
Dilation and curettage (D&C), seldom used

Second trimester (13 to 24 weeks) None
Dilation and evacuation (D&E), a combination of vacuum aspiration, forceps, and D&C
Induction, possibly with D&E, seldom used

Answer 8

You can purchase very very small grenades the size of raisins from most chemists that you insert and they blow up the fetus without hurting the slut too much. Other methods I've heard is getting a boxer to punch it to death through the vagina, special forces snipers firing up the opening exactly into the fetus, or if the child is black you can lay some fried chicken at your opening and wait for it to emerge before grabbing it.

Not sure about that last one, just heard it on the internet.

Answer 9

From conception to 9 weeks you can normally use a pill abortion where they give you a pill that make you bleed out the fetus. from like 9 weeks to 18 (not positive on the weeks) they can do a vaccumm abortion where they insert a tube up your vagina and suck the fetus out. Over 18 weeks they do a D&C which they go in and scrape your uturus out. They all have emotional difficulties. I was told that the vaccumm suction has the least difficulties and hurts less. Hope this helps

Answer 10

im personally against abortion under any conditions.u r killling ur own baby...i got pregnant and it wasnn`t planned at all(i am 22) but i dint even think of abortion though my entire family was against me i was insistig on keepng baby.even though my boy friend(rite now husband)would refuse to keep us i know i wouldnt have problems with upbringing my baby alone.by the way when i was visiting my doc i heard the conversations of different girls who were after abortions and they were talking about it as if they did smth that is appreciatated rite now...the values of life are vanishing away