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| | SCVPC Abortion Information |
 | | Death - In extreme cases, other physical complications from abortion including excessive bleeding, infection, organ damage from a perforated uterus and adverse reactions to anesthesia may lead to death This complication is very rare and occurs, on average, in less than 20 cases per year. |
 | | When the suction machine is turned on, you feel the strong force of the vacuum which is used to pull the placenta and fetus into parts small enough to pass out of your body through the suction tube. |
 | | The doctor opens your cervix, as described above, but in this case the abortion is done with a loop-shaped knife which is used to scrape the walls of your uterus, cutting the fetus and placenta into smaller parts and pulling them out of your body through the cervix. |
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