Mini-mémoire

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………..P2

I. THE CAUSES AND METHODS OF ABORTION…………..P2

1) the abortion causes …………………………………………….P2

2) The methods of abortion……………………………………P2

II. THE CONSEQUENCES OF ABORTION………………………P3

1) The consequences on women……………………….P3

2) The consequences on the medical staff………..P3

III. SOLUTIONS…………………………………………………………….P4

1) The preventions……………………………………………P4

2) Others alternatives considered……………………P4

CONCLUSION…………………………………………………P4

INTRODUCTION

The logical culmination of a pregnancy is without doubt the birth of child. However, the normal conduct of this gestation process can be disrupted in a way or another: this is called an abortion. Abortion is defined as the interruption before the end of the gestation process. It is also, according to the legal and scientific definition in the interruption of the process of gestation from the implantation of the embryo at the morula stage in the endometrium. However, it is important to study the causes (I), the consequences (II) of this practice before listing some solutions (III).

I. THE CAUSES AND METHODS OF ABORTION

1) the abortion causes

The causes of abortion differ depending on the type of abortion. These are:

 Causes of spontaneous abortion that abortion causes are: excessive tiredness shocks repeated disease

 Causes of the voluntary abortion. The main cause of voluntary abortion is due to unwanted pregnancies. There is also the family treatment of pregnant girls as insults, the family ban unmarried..

 Causes of therapeutic abortion are essentially due to a severe maternal illness. The therapeutic abortion ispracticed also when the embryo is suffering from a serious and incurable infection.

2) The methods of abortion

 The aspiration of the previously dismembered fetus abortion. This method is usually used for abortions before 12 weeks.

 Abortion by injection of potassium chloride in the heart of the fetus or hypertonic solution in the amniotic fluid. This method is used for abortions up to 9 months.

 Medical abortion by ingestion of the RU 486 pill, which makes the uterine lining unsuitable for the survival of the already implanted embryo, or NORVELO ("morning after pill") which, according to the period of the menstrual cycle, can prevent implantation of the embryo already designed.

 The IUD: device placed in the uterus causing a very early abortion.

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