ABORTION

Case Study on Abortion

Case Study on Abortion

Introduction

An abortion is termed as death and expulsion of the fetus from the uterus before five months of pregnancy.  When a woman seeks recurrent abortion for medical care, the doctor first diagnoses the cause as the treatment highly depends on it. For example, if a woman has fibroids or uterine polyps (two types of benign growths), she can be operated to remove it. In a similar way, if she has a uterine septum which is a congenital condition, surgery can cure this.

Induced Abortion

Abortion that is called therapeutic is done due to illness faced by the female during pregnancy while induced abortion is known as selective abortion. Induced abortions have been occurring since ancient times. It has a long history and has been happening in several ways, including herbs, the use of sharp tools, physical trauma and other conventional procedures. While modern medicine makes use of medications and surgical procedures to induce abortion. The legality, custom, culture and views on abortion vary from country to country (David, 1979). 

Medical abortion is the abortion without surgery and uses of medicinal drugs, and can be effective in the first three months of pregnancy. Within the hemisphere of United States, the current rate of medical abortion is 10%. It is worth mentioning that about 92% of women who underwent medical abortion with the system Complex in these countries completed abortion without surgical intervention. In cases of failed medical abortion, it uses the respirator to complete the abortion surgically.

Case Study: “Abortion mortality, United States, 1972 through 1987”

Objective

The purpose of the study was to identify and explain the risk factors for legal abortion mortality along with the characteristics of females who expired because of the complications of legal abortion for the years between 1972 to 1987.Study Design

The abortion mortality surveillance data published by the Division of ...