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  Abortion - Libertarian Wiki
Abortion, in its most common usage, refers to the deliberate premature termination of a pregnancy resulting in the death of any or all carried unborn infants.
Wade decision overturned many state laws regarding abortion by claiming that abortion is a constitutional right and therefore state legislatures did not have the right to follow the will of the citizens with regard to laws on abortion.
Some will say that abortion is not a matter of life and death, arguing that a fetus is not a "person", or a "human being", because brain has not yet been developed in a young fetus.
libertarianwiki.org /Abortion   (2346 words)

  
  Chemical abortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A chemical abortion is a type of abortion in which a drug is used to induce the abortion, rather than a surgical procedure.
Advocates of chemical abortion claim that it is easier emotionally for the women and that it is safe.
The risks of a chemical abortion are similar to a vacuum abortion (both have a rate of death of 1: 200,000).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chemical_abortion   (1092 words)

  
 Abortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy associated with the death of an embryo or a fetus.
A person's position on abortion may be best described as a combination of their personal beliefs on the morality of induced abortion, and that person's beliefs on the ethical scope and responsibility of legitimate governmental and legal authority.
Abortion debates, especially pertaining to abortion laws, are often spearheaded by advocacy groups belonging to one of two camps.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abortion   (3140 words)

  
 Abortion
Abortion is the deliberate destruction of an unborn child, usually by extracting or expelling the embryo or fetus from the womb.
In Britain most abortions are performed in the first third of pregnancy although it is legal up to birth on some grounds, including the risk of foetal disability.
Women who have abortions are not given objective information about the humanity of the child in the womb, the possible physical and psychological complications of abortion and the reality of PAT.
www.spuc.org.uk /students/abortion   (521 words)

  
 Chemical Abortions   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In a surgical abortion, instruments such as curettes (loop-shaped knives), forceps and/or suction devices are used to dismember and extract the fetus from the womb.
Chemical abortions are usually performed in the earliest weeks of pregnancy.
Chemicals which induce abortion are called "abortifacients." Whether an abortion is performed surgically or chemically, the result is the same: a dead baby.
www.jericholife.org /abortion/abortifacients2.html   (1023 words)

  
 Chemical Abortions
Chemical abortion can be caused by certain drugs, administered in varying ways, which act upon the hormones of the mother to create a situation in which a newly-formed human being, known as a zygote or embryo at this stage, cannot survive.
Most of these chemicals are used in combination, one drug to ensure that the embryo is killed, and a second to induce contractions so that the dead embryo is expelled from the uterus of the mother.
Three to seven days later (depending on the protocol used), a suppository of misoprostol (the same prostaglandin used with RU 486) is inserted into a woman’s vagina to trigger uterine contractions and expulsion of the tiny body of the child from the woman’s uterus.
www.lifesitenews.com /abortiontypes/chabortion_types.html   (1568 words)

  
 Chemical Abortions
Chemical abortion can be caused by certain drugs, administered in varying ways, which act upon the hormones of the mother to create a situation in which a newly-formed human being, known as a zygote or embryo at this stage, cannot survive.
Most of these chemicals are used in combination, one drug to ensure that the embryo is killed, and a second to induce contractions so that the dead embryo is expelled from the uterus of the mother.
Three to seven days later (depending on the protocol used), a suppository of misoprostol (the same prostaglandin used with RU 486) is inserted into a woman’s vagina to trigger uterine contractions and expulsion of the tiny body of the child from the woman’s uterus.
www.lifesite.net /abortiontypes/chabortion_types.html   (1568 words)

  
 Downtown Pregnancy Center Dallas, TX for Abortion Information and Alternative Services
The cost and type of abortion is determined by the number of weeks a woman is in her pregnancy.
This surgical abortion is done during the second trimester of pregnancy.
At the abortion clinic you may be asked to sign a statement stating you will not hold the clinic or doctor liable if you are injured during the abortion procedure.
www.downtownpc.org /abortion.htm   (1279 words)

  
 Reno News and Review Cover story - November 6, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Though she still supports chemical abortion as an option for women seeking to end a pregnancy, she says that if she could go back she would opt for a surgical abortion.
"[Chemical abortion] is a significantly more intense experience than it would be for someone who has a surgical abortion," she says.
What some opponents of chemical abortion perhaps don't think about, Anne says, is that her own unpleasant experience is argument enough for the drug.
www.newsreview.com /issues/reno/2003-11-06/cover2.asp   (1555 words)

  
 About Abortion
For the abortion procedure, artificial prostaglandins are injected into the amniotic sac which induces violent labor and leads to the birth of a child usually too young to survive.
Statistics are available on the percentage of abortions sought by women in various demographical categories, including age, marital status, race, religion, and prior pregnancies.
Abortion is an "elective surgical procedure and a woman's exposure to the hormones of early pregnancy—if it is interrupted—is so great, that just one interrupted pregnancy is enough to make a significant difference in her risk" [2].
www.prolifeaction.org /faq/abortion.htm   (1419 words)

  
 Mifegyne - Pill of Cain (Feb 2000)
The abortion pill itself ap pears at the moment to be produced largely in China, where one hates to imagine the awful trials endured by Chinese women.
In the future she envisages, the abortion clinic will become obsolete, as any GP anywhere will be able to prescribe and supervise chemical abortion.
Chemical abortions are put forward as the obvious and best solution for countries with poor hospital facilities and inadequate contraceptive options.
www.catholicdoctors.org.uk /CMQ/Feb_2000/mifegyne.htm   (1778 words)

  
 Abortion Facts and Statistics
A natural abortion is called a "miscarriage" and when artificially done called as a "surgical" or "chemical" abortion.
1% of the abortions are due to rape or incest, 6% due to potential health problems of mother or child and 93% due to social reasons eg.
52% abortions take place in the 9th week, 25% in the 9th and 10th week, 12% in the 11th and 12th week, 6% in the 13th to 15th week, 4% between the 16th to 20th week and 1% after the 20th week.
www.buzzle.com /articles/abortion-facts-and-statistics.html   (1048 words)

  
 -----//PRO-LIFE Wisconsin//-----
Mifepristone (formerly known as RU-486) is a chemical used to cause abortion.
Sometimes it is called a "medical abortion" or "chemical abortion" because it does not involve surgery, unless the chemicals fail to kill the baby.
Abortion is an act of direct killing that takes the life of a tiny human being-a life that begins at fertilization.
www.prolifewisconsin.org /infolibraryshow.asp?lID=20   (697 words)

  
 Abortion Info
Abortion isn't necessarily as "safe and easy" as many make it out to be.
In addition to the risks listed above, women having chemical abortions often see the complete tiny bodies of their unborn child and are even able to see the child's developing hands, eyes, etc. So traumatic is this for some women that it is recommended that women unprepared for the experience not take the drugs.
A second chemical is added during this abortion to cause cramping and contractions to starve the baby, and push the dead baby out through the mother’s womb.
awtpcc.org /ClientPages/abortion_info.htm   (767 words)

  
 Dont cry because it over : smile because it happened!!!
Chemical Abortions in the U.S. Because most contraceptive measures are abortifacients (drugs that induce or cause abortions), it is important not to overlook the number of children killed by chemical abortions.
Without throwing the equations at you, about 14 million chemical abortions are committed in the US each year, giving us a total of 450 million chemical abortions between 1965 and 1996.
A Missouri abortion law, requiring the consent of parents in the case of minors, and husbands in the case of a married woman, is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
www.freewebs.com /tori_spaz/prolife.htm   (2397 words)

  
 The Abortion Pill: Mifepristone and Misoprostol for Early Abortion
Medical Abortion (brand name Mifeprex) is a form of early abortion caused by the combination of two medications, mifepristone and misoprostol that is an option for women who are 8 weeks pregnant or less.
According to studies of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and the National Abortion Federation, there are no known long term risks associated with using mifepristone and misoprostol.
If you are at least 6 weeks by ultrasound, you can choose to have a surgical abortion, in which the cervix is dilated and suction aspiration is used to remove the tiny pregnancy.
www.fwhc.org /abortion/medical-ab.htm   (1118 words)

  
 Problem Pregnancy - Abortion
A: The following is a description of the various types of surgical and chemical abortion procedures performed in the United States.
Dilation and Evacuation (D and E) This type of abortion is done after the third month of pregnancy.
abortion, is also used in mid- and late-term pregnancies (from 4 to 9 months).
www.problempregnancy.org /abortion.htm   (787 words)

  
 Rock for Life's Abortion information
Chemical Abortions in the U.S. Because most contraceptive measures are abortifacients (drugs that induce or cause abortions), it is important not to overlook the number of children killed by chemical abortions.
Without throwing the equations at you, about 14 million chemical abortions are committed in the US each year, giving us a total of 450 million chemical abortions between 1965 and 1996.
A Missouri abortion law, requiring the consent of parents in the case of minors, and husbands in the case of a married woman, is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
www.rockforlife.org /know_abortion.php   (1587 words)

  
 Mifepristone  The French Abortion Pill   The
Counselors at abortion clinics indicate it is common for women to express a desire to bury the baby, to perform some sort of ceremony to deal with their strong feelings.
Doctors who had abortion experience were so surprised by the amount of blood lost in RU486/PG abortions in U.S. trials that the sponsor of the trials offered this as a possible explanation of lower "success" rates (i.e., higher rates of incomplete abortions) in the U.S. than in France.
If an ER staff is unfamiliar with chemical abortions and doesn't recognize the danger a woman may be in, she could bleed to death.
www.nrlc.org /RU486/ru486info.html   (11470 words)

  
 Fort Worth Pregnancy Center
Before considering the various abortion procedures, it is important to have a sonogram/ultrasound to determine viability (uterine, not ectopic (tubal) pregnancy) and gestation.
This chemical abortion is for termination of a pregnancy of 7 to 9 weeks.
An abortion is permanent; it can't be undone.
www.fwpc.org /abortion.htm   (544 words)

  
 Crisis Pregnancy Center - Anchorage, Alaska
Abortion may, at first, seem like the easiest way to deal with an unplanned pregnancy; however, abortion is not just a simple procedure.
If your final decision is abortion, after being fully informed about all of your pregnancy options, please contact CPC to schedule a free consultation and STD screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Women who have an abortion are five times more likely to report subsequent drug and alcohol abuse compared to women who carry to term, according to a study published in the latest issue of the prestigious American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
cpcanchorage.com /considering_abortion.html   (2455 words)

  
 -----//PRO-LIFE Wisconsin//-----
The term chemical abortion, as used here, means the killing of the unborn child anytime after fertilization, by means other than a surgical procedure.
In reply, we cannot state too strongly that abortion kills a human being, and the scriptures do not make any distinction between a life that is a few moments old and a life that is a few months old.
Estimates of chemically induced abortions in the United States range from a low of 5 million a year to a high of 9 million a year.
www.prolifewisconsin.org /infolibraryshow.asp?lID=22   (954 words)

  
 Chemical Abortion - The New Abortionists
The focus is on the "new abortionists", specifically on chemical abortion, and it includes an intriguing examination of those chemical abortions that masquerade as contraceptives.
The re-definition of the beginning of life was actually done to re-define abortion in hopes that these devices like the IUD and drugs like birth control pills would no longer be thought of as abortive.
Her point was to emphasize the tremendous difficulties facing the pro-life community as they seek to protect the unborn from the waves of chemical abortion that are now upon us.
www.vitalsignsministries.org /vsmnewabort.html   (4532 words)

  
 How Abortions are Performed | LIFE
During the early stages of pregnancy the abortion pill may be used.
Risks associated with D and E are injury to the uterine lining or cervix, uterine perforation or rupture, infections caused by incomplete removal of the baby and other tissue and blood clots.
As with all types of abortion, if a woman experiences heavy bleeding, a lot of pain or a high temperature, she should seek medical help.
www.lifecharity.org.uk /education/abortion/procedures   (567 words)

  
 Abortion
The Second Look Project - presents basic facts regarding taking a second look at abortion in the form of text, radio ads, postcards and a great, pictoral, fetal development timeline designed to encourage those who are "pro-choice" to take a second look at their position on abortion.
Abortion Statistics (January 2008) from the Guttmacher Institute, widely known for its efforts to "advance sexual and reproductive health worldwide" through abortion.
If abortion were made illegal, there would still be many abortions.
www.webparish.com /prolife/documents/AbortionFacts.htm   (738 words)

  
 BBC - Religion & Ethics - Methods of abortion: Medical abortion
Medical abortion works in two stages: First the women is given the drug mifepristone, which blocks a hormone needed to make fertilised eggs stick to the womb lining.
Medical abortion can be used in the first 7 weeks of a pregnancy, while surgical abortion is usually delayed until 6 weeks or later.
The earlier an abortion is performed, the safer it is for the woman.
www.bbc.co.uk /religion/ethics/abortion/medical/methods_1.shtml   (501 words)

  
 Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center • 916-880-4040
Abortion interrupts the natural process of breast development through pregnancy, leaving breast with more cells that can become cancerous.
There is evidence that abortion is associated with a decrease in emotional health.
For many women, their abortion was very traumatic, be it the circumstances which led them to abortion, the actual abortion procedure, or the days following their abortion.
www.freshhope.net /abortionqa.html   (399 words)

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