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Medical Abortion: The Abortion Pill: Types

BPAS cares for women with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies by providing advice, counseling, and abortion services, as abortion ends a pregnancy before birth. There are two main types of abortion treatments - medical abortions using abortion pills and surgical abortions, which involve a quick, minor operation. Abortions can be induced deliberately to end a pregnancy or may occur spontaneously in a miscarriage without medical intervention.

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Medical Abortion: The Abortion Pill: Types

BPAS cares for women with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies by providing advice, counseling, and abortion services, as abortion ends a pregnancy before birth. There are two main types of abortion treatments - medical abortions using abortion pills and surgical abortions, which involve a quick, minor operation. Abortions can be induced deliberately to end a pregnancy or may occur spontaneously in a miscarriage without medical intervention.

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Abortion is when a pr eg nancy is ended so that it doesn't result in the birth of a child.

Sometimes
it is called 'termination of pregnancy'.

BPAS cares for women with an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. We treat thousands of
women who've decided that abortion is the right choice for them, and give advice and
counselling to women who don't know what to do next.

There are two types of abortion treatment, 'Medical' and 'Surgical' abortion:

1. Medical abortion: The abortion pill

Some women feel that a medical abortion is a more natural process. There are two types of
medical abortion

2. Surgical abortion

Surgical abortion involves a quick, minor operation. There are two types of surgical abortion:

Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it


can survive outside uterus An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a
miscarriage or spontaneous abortion. When deliberate steps are taken to end a pregnancy, it is
called an induced abortion or less frequently "induced miscarriage". The unmodified word
abortion generally refers to an induced abortion. A similar procedure after the fetus has potential
to survive outside the womb is known as a "late termination of pregnancy or less accurately as a
"late term abortion..

types
Induced

An induced abortion may be classified as therapeutic (done in response to a health condition of


the women or fetus) or elective (chosen for other reasons)

Spontaneous

Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion, is the unintentional expulsion of an embryo or


fetus before the 24th A pregnancy that ends before 37 weeks of gestation resulting in a living
infant is a premature birth" or a "preterm birth". When a fetus dies in utero after violability , or
during it is usually termed still born".premature birth and stillbirths are generally not considered
to be miscarriages although usage of these terms can sometimes overlap.

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