Medical termination in theUK can only be used before nine completed weeks of pregnancy. It avoids the surgical complications and it may seem more like a ‘natural’ or spontaneous miscarriage. Surgical termination requires one visit for the treatment whereas a second visit is required with the medical protocol. There is some encouraging evidence that medical termination of pregnancy may be effective beyond the ninth week.
Related Medical Abstracts - Click on the paper title:-
- A comparative study of surgical and medical procedures: 932 pregnancy terminations up to 63 days gestation. (2001-01
- Medical abortion or vacuum aspiration? Two year follow up of a patient preference trial (1997)
Please click on the required question.
- 1 What does the term abortion mean?
- 2 What are the legal criteria that permit doctors to terminate a pregnancy in the UK?
- 3 How could we tell if there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped - e.g. Down Syndrome?
- 3A What is Tay Sachs and should we test for it?
- 4 How prevalent is pregnancy termination?
- 5 Why do unwanted pregnancies occur?
- 6 I think I may be pregnant and I do not want to have a baby now. What should I do?
- 7 Should I terminate my pregnancy for social reasons?
- 8 How can my pregnancy be terminated?
- 9 What does a suction (surgical) termination of pregnancy involve?
- 10 What is a medical abortion?
- 11 What will happen to me if I have a medical abortion?
- 12 How do medical and surgical pregnancy termination compare?
- 13 What are the chances of medical termination failing?
- 14 What are the risks of pregnancy termination?
- 15 Why is there debate about the ethics of pregnancy termination?
- 16 Support Groups.
- 17 Where can I obtain more information?
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