Abortion: Controversial Hot Topic That Has Been Around for Years

Abortion, a controversial hot topic that has been around for years. Whether it be for, or against abortion, the side you wish to choose will have many debates associated with it. Not to be confused with the English word, miscarriage, which is the spontaneous, unintentional loss of an immature embryo, or fetus before viability. Abortion is the removal of the embryo, or fetus from the uterus purposely. This may be done if the country, or state that the woman lives in permits the procedure to take place. Although some countries prohibit abortion, there are many places that will do it illegally.
About 80% of women have made up their minds before even setting out and seeking an abortion, even though the Abortion Act implies that the decision to terminate pregnancy is one that is made due to medical issues, and gives the woman no choice. If a practitioners decides that the reason for an abortion is reasonable, they will sign a certificate, and then the woman is referred to a private clinic, or gynecological department. Usually, the second signature is usually that of a staff member or that clinic, or hospital. The entire procedure is discussed, and counseled beforehand. It is recommended to allow time between leaving, and making the final decision for termination. Some woman may change their minds at any given time, and may decide she after all did not want an abortion.
There are many various ways to perform an abortion. One way is done by drugs that make the uterus contract, and expel the embryo. This seems to be the more safe methods than most. Terminating a pregnancy is much easier to be done before ten weeks. Deciding to have an abortion later than ten weeks becomes difficult, and perhaps more dangerous
Another method is known as Dilation and Extraction ( more commonly known as D and X). This is mostly used when the fetus is roughly from 4 to 9 months in the womb. To identify how the fetus is facing, an ultrasound is given to the mother. The person performing the abortion inserts forceps through the cervical canal into the uterus. Then, one of the baby’s legs are grasped, so that the baby’s feet are out of the cervix first, and the face is down in the breech position.
Whether a medical, or surgical method is used is depended to some extent on the hospital. This may be argued in favor of either method, but choosing a medical method means that anesthetics are not involved where as a surgical method does. The majority of the baby’s is pulled out of the birth canal, excluding the head. This is because the head is too large to pass through the cervix. At this point, the baby is alive. The abortionist inserts his finger in a hook position over the baby’s shoulder, and holds the woman’s cervix away from the baby’s neck. A blunt tipped surgical scissor is then inserted into the base of the skull. After, the tips are spread apart to enlarge the wound. A suction catheter is then placed into the skull, and the brain matter is sucked out. The skull deflated, and the baby’s head then passes through the cervix easily. Assuming that is it done correctly, modern abortion procedures are safe. The risk of a woman dying from an abortion is less than one in 100,000. Surprisingly, the risk of a woman dying from giving birth is 13 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies
Some argue that abortion access is necessary. Contraceptives are not always easily obtainable. Women need doctor prescriptions to buy most birth control methods. A few of those methods are the patch, the shot, the pill, or the diaphragm. Roughly half of all large group-insurance plans do not cover most, or all forms of birth control. A study that was conducted in about July, or August of 2001 by Guttmacher Institute on heath care insurers found that 75% of insured woman lacked contraceptive coverage. By 2009, 17 million US woman were completely un insured. Abortions are very common. 1 out every 3 women in the US have an abortion by the time they are 45 years years old.Motherhood should never be viewed as a punishment for having sex. President Barack Obama said during a campaign speech in Johnson, Pennsylvania, “I have two daughters. I’m going to teach them the first values about morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Others may argue that abortions eliminates the potential life of a human being. They say that the US would be a completely different country if the mothers of our nations great presidents, athletes, and our nation’s heroes had chosen abortion. Unborn babies are innocent human beings from the time of conception. They have fundamental rights to life, which should entirely be protected. According to Janet L. Hopson, a science textbook writer and instructor at San Francisco State University, the fetus is capable of feeling pain by the twelfth week. Essentially, abortion is view as wrong because pain is inflected on a living, and defenseless human being.Depending on your view points, abortion may, or may not be the best thing in your opinion. If you are a woman seeking an abortion, whether it is a medical, or personal reason for choosing to terminate a pregnancy,you should look over every single aspect of abortion, including each, and every method. Being informed on both views is the best thing you can do to make a educated decision for you, and your fetuses life