"The Procedures of Abortion" Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy before the woman gives birth. Depending upon how far along the pregnancy is, there are different procedures that may be preformed. Abortions performed today are much safer than those performed hundreds of years ago. Many women would induce their own abortions to save themselves for public embarrassment. They would use coat hangers and knives, which later left them with painful diseases. It used to …showed first 75 words of 685 total…

…showed last 75 words of 685 total…delivered up to his head. Then the abortion forces a pair of curved scissors into the base of the skull of the fetus, enlarges the wound by opening up the scissors, inserts a suction catheter to suck out the brain and to collapse his skull for easy removal. This method is favored for a low rate of complications and for a safe abortion done to mature fetus during late pregnancy up to 32 weeks or more.