Abortion - History Of

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up to the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy, and usually
take ten to twenty minutes. The way they are preformed is the woman is given absorbent
dilators which open up the cervix and absorb the fluids. After this is left in overnight the
woman then is ready for the evacuation stage. The fetus is easily removed with
instruments and suction.
In the last trimester of the pregnancy abortions are preformed mainly if the
woman�s life is in danger or the fetus is severely deformed. Only one out of every
ten-thousand abortions are preformed this way. The main way that is used is by injecting
a salt solution into the vagina, causing contractions. The baby is then born stillbirth.
The other way is called a partial-birth abortion. Here the woman�s cervix is dilated
and the fetus is removed half-way feet first. The surgeon then jabs a sharp object in the
back of the fetus� head and the brains are extracted with suction. This allows the fetus to
be removed more easily.
With all of these ...

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