Abortion Informative Speech Outline

There are about 1.2 million abortions in the United States each year. Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in the United States each year. More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives Most abortions are performed after your health care professional takes a brief and targeted medical history. Before you have this procedure, you will be asked questions about prior pregnancies and any treatment or care during the current pregnancy. You will be asked about any diseases or conditions that affect your reproductive organs, such as sexually transmitted infections. The health care professional will ask whether you have a history of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart
Home tests are reliable, so providers will accept these results in some cases. Blood will be tested for sexually transmitted diseases and for hepatitis. Urine may be checked to see if you have a urinary tract infection. An ultrasound is virtually always dome for pregnancy confirmation and dating. There are two trimesters for having an abortion. The First-trimester is surgical and it is performed with a syringe are referred to as manual aspirations (or menstrual extractions). Those performed with the suction generated by a vacuum aspirator are referred to as a vacuum aspiration. Tools are used to grasp the cervix after it has been prepared with Betadine and possibly numbed. The cannula is carefully inserted through the cervix into your uterus. The actual evacuation is performed by applying suction to the syringe or via the machine. The procedure takes a few minutes to complete. There is a small amount of blood loss. The doctor will check the tissue to make sure it has all been taken out. Dilatation and curettage (D&C) The procedure is usually accomplished with similar dilatation procedures, but the uterus is emptied with a sharp metal
Next you have the Second-trimester dilatation and evacuation which is the safest and most common method used by experienced health care professionals. Dilation takes place over hours and possibly days with the sticks to enlarge the cervix. Once the cervix is enlarged enough, the procedure is accomplished using a combination of suction curettage and manual evacuation of the fetus and placenta. The procedure is longer and more uncomfortable than a first-trimester procedure, but many women can comfortably go through the procedure with local anesthesia. To avoid performing a partial birth abortion while performing a legal dilatation and extraction, digitalis or potassium chloride may be injected onto the fetus to induce preoperative fetal death. Medical abortion is a term applied to an abortion brought about by medication taken to induce it. This can be accomplished with a variety of medications given either as a single pill or a series of pills. Medical abortion has a success rate that ranges from 75-95%, with about 2-4% of failed abortions requiring surgical abortion and about 5-10% of incomplete abortions, depending on the stage of gestation and the medical products used. In September 2000, the