Abortion Options to Consider If You’re Facing an Unplanned Pregnancy
September 14th, 2008There are both medical and surgical abortion options available to women choosing to terminate their pregnancies. Early surgical abortion and the abortion pill for pregnancies between four and seven weeks include a vacuum aspiration or a medical abortion using the pill Methotrexate, a folic acid antagonist, or Mifeprex, a progesterone antagonist, either of which are used in combination with Misoprostol, a prostaglandin drug, to induce contractions in the uterus and expel the fetus. Because it’s a safer alternative and less invasive than surgical abortion, medical abortion is a popular choice. However, according to the research literature, medical abortion has a failure rate of up to 8%, which will then result in the surgical removal of the fetus