Unplanned pregnancies are quite common these days; even research shows that one-third of women are likely to have an abortion before the age of 35. Basically, abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy safely. Besides, there are two methods, medical abortion, and surgical abortion, that are widely chosen by women. The choice of procedure entirely depends upon the situation, physical or medical condition, and preferences of the woman.
There is no doubt that both methods are safe and effective for terminating unwanted pregnancies. Let’s read further to know which method may suit you well with your specifications.
A medical abortion that suits women in less than 8 weeks of pregnancy. The effectiveness of the pills depends on the stage of pregnancy. Generally, doctors prescribed two medical pills, methotrexate, and misoprostol. You can take this medication in the comfort of your home, but the instructions must be followed accurately for it to work.
The procedure of taking abortion pills begins within 1–12 hours once you have taken them. Further, it proceeds with the continued heavy bleeding for around 4 to 8 hours, which may exhaust you. Medication abortion has some side effects as compared to in-clinic abortion, but it again differs from person to person. The side effects are nausea, headache, diarrhea, fever, cramping, and so on. Yet, this method is regarded as the easiest way for women to get abortions or a spontaneous miscarriage.
Contrarily, surgical abortion is also known as in-clinic abortion. It is a successful method for abortion as compared to medical abortion. In this method, trained medical professionals supervise the entire procedure of abortion in a clinic to gain effective results. Usually, experts recommend this method when the gestation period crosses 14 weeks. This procedure calls for about 15 minutes to perform the surgical abortion. Even though you need to visit the abortion clinic once during a surgical abortion, there is no need for follow-up visits.
The benefit of in-clinic abortion is that it causes less bleeding and cramps after an abortion. Moreover, the chances of complications are also lessened with this method. There could be only minimal scarring in the uterus due to using surgical instruments; otherwise, it has a higher success rate.
To compare both methods, the medical abortion success rate is pegged at 89 to 95% from surgical abortion. The bleeding in medical abortion can last longer than 16 days or more. It requires a couple of hospital visits if the pills are ineffective.
At the end of some medical abortion cases, one has to choose other methods, like vacuum aspiration or surgical abortion, to terminate the pregnancy. In-clinic abortions are much faster and more effective than abortion pills, as it take only a few minutes and have fewer complications.
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