There are many reasons why women have abortions. Less than 0.3% of women have abortions because of rape and Incest. There is only …show more content…
The first type abortion I will be talking to you guys about is RU-486. This abortion happens during the first trimester. RU-486 is a pill that you take that uses two powerful synthetic hormones. They use chemicals to induce the women that are between five to nine weeks pregnant. When you get this procedure it usually takes you three trips to the abortion center to get it done. For the first visit to the abortion center they give you a physical exam and if they see no problems like smoking, high blood pressure, or other problems that may make the pill deadly to the women they have the women swallow the pill. The RU-486 pill will block a hormone in your body that maintains the nutrients lining of the uterus. When this happens the lining starts to decay so the baby in the uterus starves because it has no nutrients. During the second visit at the abortion center usually around thirty six to forty eight hours later they give the woman a drug that helps you go into labor. Two weeks later the woman go back to the abortion center to see if the need surgical abortion or if the need surgical abortion. There are many side effects from this procedure like severe bleeding, nausea, vomiting, pain, and sometimes death. This drug could affect your future children with deformities and maybe able to cause