... explanation and a brief history The accepted definition of abortion is that it's the induced termination and expulsion of an embryo or foetus from the uterus. There are alternative classifications, such as therapeutic abortion, which depend on the varying circumstances of the mother and child, but these alternative titles will only be looked at as and when they become necessary to this paper. If abortion is to be practiced, there are two types of technique used to expel the foetus - medical abortions and clinical abortions1. Medical abortions use drugs to empty the uterus, and are used during the first trimester of the pregnancy. The drug mifepristone can be taken as a pill (more commonly known as the abortion pill) to prevent the re-lining of the placenta, and effectively starving the foetus to death. This is then followed by doses of misoprostol, administered as suppositories or injections that cause the muscles ...

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