Abortion has been legal in some states in the United States since 1973. Pennsylvania was one of the states that allow abortion, however there are some rules and regulations that the state will abide to perform the certain act. The provisions involved the physician and hospital requirement, gestational limits, “partial-birth” abortion, public funding, coverage and private insurance, refusal, state mandated counseling, waiting periods, and parental invovlment (Guttmatcher Institute, 2012). Each has a brief description of the policies that were aimed for the pregnant women’s decision making. These provisions will demand penalties on the providers if they were not followed.
The physician and hospital requirements stated that the abortion should
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For example are the information about 24-hour waiting period, fetal development, and adoption programs. Physicians and counselors will share the information during the consultations and prior to receiving abortion to educate and persuade pregnant women or teenagers to terminate the abortion. Additionally, the parental involvement is required for parents to sign the consent form. However, a minor can obtain a court order for abortion without the parent’s consent.
Women and teens considered abortion because they wanted to end an unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy from rape or incest, and inability to support or care for a child. Zastrow and Kirst-Asham (2016) stated that the “abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus from the uterus before it can survive on its own outside the womb” (p.85). Women can choose to end a pregnancy by taking a medicine or undergo a surgical
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The process will inject a local anesthetic solution, use the vacuum to suction the fetal tissues from the uterus, and perform the curettage to sweep off some remaining tissues (Zastrow & Kirst-Asham, 2016, p.96). The common side effects are cramping ranging from mild to intense and bleeding. This type of abortion is performed in the clinics where patients can stay for couple of hours for safety. Another method of abortion available for a second-trimester is dilation and evacuation (D&E). The practitioner will use the general anesthesia and the fetus will be extracted by pulling the parts of the baby (Zastrow and Kirst-Asham,2016, p.97). Also, the fetus is well-defined during the second-trimester (Tsiaris, 2011). Women use the dilation and evacuation method of abortion when they were diagnosed with a fetus that has severe medical problems or abnormalities or when pregnancy threatens the health of the mother. The common side effects are cramping and complications related to
Abortion is very cruel to the baby and even harms the mother. It is murder!There are many different procedures for abortions, all gruesome and pain inflicting on the baby. Suction Aspiration (vacuum curettage) makes up for 98% of first trimester abortions. The cervix is first dilated. Then a suction tube with a sharp cutting edge is inserted which rips the baby to pieces. It then sucks out all the remains.
When babies are being aborted in the first trimester, the method usually used will be the Menstrual Extraction or Suction Aspiration. Menstrual Extraction is when the doctor takes a suction curette (hollow tube with...
Three Works Cited Many people believe abortion is only a moral issue, but it is also a constitutional issue. It is a woman's right to choose what she does with her body, and it should not be altered or influenced by anyone else. This right is guaranteed by the ninth amendment, which contains the right to privacy. The ninth amendment states: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." This right guarantees the right to women, if they so choose, to have an abortion, up to the end of the first trimester.
Imagine being in excruciating pain from a gaping hole in the back of your neck. Then you hear a slight “whirr” before your brains are sucked out through a tiny tube. Sadly this happens to many babies each day because they are unwanted, inconvenient, or imperfect. The abortionist first delivers the baby breech style except for the head, scissors are then jammed into the head at the base of the skull, and the brains sucked out, the skull then collapses. This procedure is commonly known as partial birth abortion or Intact Dilation and E...
The contractions are much more violent than normal and will decapitate and kill the fetus. The last form of abortion after 20 weeks is, Hysterotomy or Caesaerean Section, in which the surgeon cuts through the abdomen and then cuts the umbilical cord. Once the umbilical cord is cut, the oxygen supply to the fetus is gone and the fetus suffocates. Sometimes, the fetus is born alive, but it is left in a corner to die. Although the abortion process provides pregnant women with an alternative option, after twenty weeks, due to the emotional and sensory growth of the fetus, it would be cruel and unethical to have an abortion.
the womb, the doctor uses the procedure called manual vacuum aspiration or dilation and evacuation known as D&E. Both procedures use suction to empty the womb, M.V.A known as manual vacuum aspiration uses a handhold tool, while D&E is used with a suction machine and other tools. For the M.V.A procedure the latest you can wait is around twelve weeks of pregnancy. The cut off for D&E is before the end of thirteen week of your pregnancy.(“What is surgical abortion?”). Surgical abortion is nearly one hundred percent effective. In conclusion medical abortion is another procedure that occurs within a certain amount of time.
Abortion: Do We Need It? 1. Abortion is a hot topic these days. We hear about it on television and on the radio. Should we, even take a stance on this issue when we have no idea?
If the fetus weighs less than 18oz or is less than 20 weeks into the pregnancy, it is usually considered an abortion. These usually occur during the first three months of pregnancy. It is estimated that 25% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion (Epner 725). The very early stage of the pregnancy, up to 49 days after conception, the woman has two choices. The first is to take a combination of drugs. The embryo is then passed out. The other method is to use a syringe, and gently suck the embryo out. The next type can be preformed six to fourteen weeks after conception. The method the doctor’s use is to insert a tube in the vagina, and then hook it up to a suction machine. The fetus is then removed. This procedure takes about ten minutes. The second trimester abortions are called D&E, which stands for dilation and evacuation. These are preformed 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 (Epner 724).
At 8 weeks, the stomach, liver, and kidneys are functioning, and the fingerprints have formed. At 9 weeks, the baby can feel pain . Here are some methods of early abortion:Vacuum Curettage: powerful suction tube inserted through the cervix and into the womb. The unborn child is torn apart by the force of the suction; the fetal body parts and placenta are sucked into a jar. Possible complications include infection, cervical laceration and uterine perforation.
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by destruction of a fertilized egg, embryo or fetus before birth, prior to the time when the fetus attains viability, or capacity for life outside the uterus (Encyclopedia, 1995, p.43). Currently almost twenty-five percent of pregnancies in the United States are aborted. About one forth of people who abort are teenagers, fifty-seven percent are younger than 25, and almost eighty percent are unmarried. During the first trimester is when most of the abortions take place. Only about ten percent are performed later in the pregnancy (Slife, 1998, p.329). Abortions go back as far as Ancient Greece where it was used as a type of population control. Then in the Roman Times men had total control over the procedure. “Man could give law-enforced command that his wife have an abortion, or he could punish or divorce his wife for having one without his consent” (Encyclopedia, 1995, p.43).
The abortion procedure is safe and has no intention to harm a woman physically or health wise (ProCon). There are four types of procedures: suction
When an abortion is performed on a woman, she becomes subject to many physical complications. Blood loss during the procedure causes diversion of blood flow to various organs and can result in shock. When the canal of the cervix is dilated, the insides of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and the abdominal cavity are exposed to invasion by bacteria. Abdominal infection can cause peritonitis and abscess formation. Severe hemorrhage often follows an abortion. Instruments can perforate the uterus causing injury, infection, and bleeding to internal organs.
Abortion is a gruesome procedure in which the fetus of a developing human child is killed and extracted from a woman’s uterus. There are two types of abortion, surgical and medical (Abortion Pros, 2014). In a surgical abortion, the fetus is broken up into pieces, and then the remnants are sucked out by suction or vacuum curettage. In a medical abortion,
Thirty six percent of all teenage women who become pregnant choose to terminate their pregnancies by having abortions. (Meier,49) There are many reasons why teenagers decide that abortion is the best option for their own specific situations. "Some say they aren't ready for the kind of changes a baby would bring to their lives." (Meier,46) The top three reasons, teens and grown women alike, choose to have an abortion are: 1. A child would change the lives of all involved, drastically, in ways that many are not ready to handle. 2. A feeling of immaturity. 3. Financial problems, only to be made worse if a youngster was involved.(Planned)...
How would you feel if someone took away your ability to live for a day, and you have no absolute control to decide whether you want to have a life or not. This decision is taken by several women all over the world with various reasons. Ironically, every woman who aborts a child feels her own case of abortion is unique according to her own standards. Scientifically, abortion may be defined as the termination of pregnancy by the expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. In simple terms, it is a deliberate and violent act of killing an unborn baby to prevent child birth.