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Originally Posted by protheus
Do any of you know the death rate of abortions gone wrong? This isn't a walk in the park, it's even riskier than an operation. It involves a lot of blood vessels that can burst.
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You can have an abortion without surgical intervention if you do it very early in your pregnancy, like within the first 6 weeks. There's not much risk to it as it basically consists of taking drugs that will kill the fetus, then your body reacts to it and you have an induced miscarriage. Most women find out they're pregnant before they reach 6 weeks into their pregnancy, so a non-surgical procedure is always an option without much physical risk to it.
The thing is, most women have gotten further into the pregnancy when they decide to get an abortion, so the most used method is vacuum aspiration, where all content is suctioned from the inside of the uterus. And really, it ain't all that risky. It's a very simple procedure. Surgeons deal with much worse and complicated things all the time. This is something a first year intern would be able to do. Personally, I'd be more concerned about psychological damage than anything else. A woman can walk right out of the hospital on her own feet after getting this kind of abortion on the very same day she's had it, that's how simple it is.