Abortion is never safe! This is exactly what doctors do not tire of repeating, to which women turn to abortion at any stage. And even if you do not waste time discussing the ethics of abortion or their complete inadmissibility, the artificial termination of pregnancy, leading to miscarriage, is a serious and extremely dangerous blow to women's health. Specialists call abortion a kind of payment for a woman because she cares about contraception.
Even if an abortion is performed in the early stages, if the operation is performed at the highest level and the patient feels satisfactory after it, there are no guarantees that there will be no consequences for the body in the future - from tumors to incurable infertility.
An abortion operation is usually performed for up to 22 weeks. There are spontaneous abortions, called miscarriages, and artificial ones performed with the help of a surgical or other type of intervention. Early abortion, which is considered more effective and safer, can be performed up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, in later stages - later than 12 weeks. In this case, its conduct is determined not only by the desire of the woman, but also in accordance with certain medical conditions (non-viability of the fetus, a threat to the health and life of the mother), as well as social indications (the woman is considered a single mother or mother of many children, became pregnant as a result of rape, or has a status refugee). Late abortion is much more dangerous, therefore, such an operation is necessarily controlled by a group of doctors and is carried out with special care.
For periods up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, the operation to terminate it can be medication, for which drugs that affect the hormone progesterone are used, preventing its action on the uterus. The main such tool is Mefipristone, which is prescribed for medical abortion in combination with prostaglandins, which can enhance the process of uterine contraction and accelerate rejection of the fetal egg.
Best of all, this method of abortion is valid for up to 8 weeks, and its advantage is that subsequently almost no unnecessary surgical intervention is required. Sometimes this method is called "abortion on the day of treatment." The process occurs in several stages - at the first woman takes 3 tablets of the drug in the presence of the attending physician and goes home. The second stage begins in one to two days, when a rejection of the fetal egg occurs in the female body, which manifests itself in bleeding similar to menstruation. Any abortion in the early stages, like any other intervention in the vital activity of the body, must be monitored by specialists, and after some time it is necessary to undergo a full examination.
In the very early stages, an abortion operation is carried out in the form of a mini-abortion (vacuum aspiration). This happens as follows: at 5-6 weeks, a special vacuum aspirator is introduced into the uterine cavity, which is a large syringe with a special nozzle. The vacuum created by the device also promotes detachment from the uterine wall of the ovum, that is, abortion. The operation is carried out under general anesthesia, and, in the case of incomplete destruction and separation of the ovum, it requires additional manipulations, which are also carried out with ordinary instrumental abortion.
Among other things, early abortion is often performed by curettage of the uterine cavity, or instrumental abortion. This method is most effective, and, at the same time, dangerous, therefore, it is carried out only up to 12 weeks and when using anesthesia. During the operation, the cervix is ββopened with special dilators, after which a metal loop is inserted into its cavity - a curette - the main instrument for curettage of the uterine cavity. It should be noted that this operation, which is a serious surgical procedure, can lead to many consequences and complications.