Thursday 21 June 2018

What Are The Essential Facts About Abortion?

By Alxa Roffel


Abortion is one of the most talked about activity nowadays, but it is still a lot difficult for women to find the right information about abortion simply because there are a lot of controversies surrounding it. However, you need to understand that abortion is not simply a choice of an individual but a lot more than it.

Mifepristone is popular as the scientific name of the drug, however, the drug is also popular by its manufacturing name i.e. RU-486, that was founded by Roussel Uclaf. France is known as the first country that provided the abortion pill initially, after which it also began to be sold in different parts of the world.

This drug is known to have a abortifacient property, which is formed by the combination of mifepristone and misoprostol drug, which is majorly available in most part of the United States since a long time now. This is definitely considered as a safer option when compared to the surgical procedures that were used earlier and is being followed by several women since a decade.

Mifeprex is also commonly known as abortion pills, which also has a scientific name i.e. mifepristone. The process of using the abortion pills to get rid of pregnancy is considered as a non-surgical abortion method or medical abortion. However, you must remember that Mifeprex is a combination of two compounds, which includes mifepristone and misoprostol.

There are a lot of other uses of the drug mifepristone, which include being used as oral contraception to get rid of pregnancy, treatment for endometriosis, getting rid of uterine fibroids, reducing plus size breast or to deal with prostate cancers.

Then there was the surgical method that has become very popular among the folks and it can be used depending on the stage of pregnancy the process occurs. Accordingly, in the first trimester, the manual vacuum aspiration, electric vacuum aspiration or the dilation and curettage is performed. If the gestation period has passed the second trimester dilation and curettage process is recommended.

It is also found that in a lot of cases the bleeding doesn't occur after the consumption of the first drug, but it is visible once the patient consumes the second drug i.e. misoprostol. There are two processes followed to administer this drug, either orally or injected directly in the vagina. This shall lead to abdominal cramps and contractions of the uterus and thus help in releasing the contents of the foetus out of the body.

Irrespective of the method used or the reason behind the termination of the pregnancy or abortion, it does become very important to understand the facts and have proper information about the processes involved to carry out the abortion procedure.




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