ABORTION

Abortion is last option to avoid an unwanted baby to born. In abortion fetus or embryo is removed from uterus of pregnant women. However, abortion is not just a mean of contraceptive some time it is caused by miscarriage or complexity in pregnancy.

There are many methods of abortion categorized broadly in three categories:

Medical Abortion:
It is non surgical type of abortion and only effective in first trimester of pregnancy. Medical abortion is also known as chemical abortion. Within 49 days of gestation it works well, a combined regimen that includes mifepristone or methotrexate, followed by prostaglandin (gemeprost or misoprostol) is the treatment.

Surgical Abortion:
Mostly second trimester pregnancy is removed by surgical abortion. In first two and half month vacuum abortion or suction-aspiration is common method of surgical abortion.

Other Means of Abortion:
 there are many other methods of abortion practiced worldwide but these are not doctor’s recommended and consider as unsafe abortion. Mostly illiterate or backward communities practice such type of abortion.

Health Effect of Abortion:
However it is a controversial issue but there are common effects seen after abortion that is mostly depend on age of gestation and method adopted for abortion.

Brest Cancer:
the level of estrogens in women’s body increases in early pregnancy that leads to breast growth for the purpose of lactation. It is a common body response. As pregnancy terminated by abortion this process also leave in uncertain direction and some time cause for abortion breast cancer (ABC).

Fetal Pain 
Fetal pain during abortion is not a unanimous opinion of medical community. Some of abortion experts say that fatus can feel pain from first trimester of pregnancy, while other experts refuse this statement and sat that only fetal pain can experience from second trimester of pregnancy.

Mental Health
There is no doubt that mental health of woman that faced abortion recently can’t consider as normal. Due to many emotional and social issues a mental stress builds in aborted woman mind. The medical term used for it is Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS) and similar to post-traumatic stress disorder.