Medical indications for an abortion include risk to the mother or the possibility that the baby would be born with a handicap such as Down's syndrome, neural tube abnormalities such as spina bifida, or damage by rubella. Down's syndrome and spina bifida can usually be detected by a test called amniocentesis in the fourteenth to ...
The emotional upheavel and distress surrounding the decision to have an abortion, be it the result of knowledge of foetal abnormality or simply an accidental and unwanted conception, cannot nearly match the heartache incurred after a spontaneous abortion, or miscarriage. A woman who has experienced one or more miscarriages suffers the misery of having her ...
The deliberate termination of pregnancy is a highly emotive subject, giving rise to fiercely held views both in favour of and against the operation. Those in favour of allowing legal abortion argue that since women always have and always will turn to abortion, then it should at least be obtainable in safe conditions. The high ...
Strictly speaking, abortion is the expulsion of a foetus from a woman's uterus before its development is complete enough to enable it to survive independently from the mother. Abortions may be either spontaneous (miscarriage) and naturally occuring or can be artificially induced. The use of the term abortion most commonly refers to induced abortion ...