There is what is called a spontaneous abortion which is a natural miscarriage but we are talking about an induced abortion where the mother willfully chooses to terminate a pregnancy. A woman may choose to have an abortion for a variety of reasons. She may base her decision on physical reasons, financial reasons, spiritual reasons or mental reasons but regardless of what the reason is they all ultimately end the possibility of a human being born. Even if a mother is otherwise healthy and the unwanted pregnancy does not pose a threat to her or her unborn baby’s overall health the “physical” reason may be that she does not want the pregnancy to change certain aspects of her pre-pregnancy body. Even though the mother may have access to financial resources that would reasonably allow her to carry and deliver a baby she may cite “financial” reasons for an abortion if the pregnancy and future child support would decrease her finances more than she was willing to endure. A woman’s “spiritual” reason to have an abortion could be that her religious or spiritual belief is against the circumstances that brought about the unwanted pregnancy. The woman considering the abortion for spiritual reasons may have had pre-marital sex or sex with someone other than her husband and she does not want the people in her spiritual community to judge and punish her because she participated in activities that went against their beliefs. Some women, although …show more content…
The two types of abortion procedures offered to women are suction curettage abortion and medicinal abortion and both have physical risks associated with them. Suction curettage abortions use instruments to physically remove the fetus from a woman’s uterus and medical abortions use pharmaceutical drugs to cause the fetus to be expelled from the uterus. Drugs of any kind are always risky because different people suffer different side effects. It’s a fact that when instruments and suction are placed into a woman’s vagina and uterus there is a risk of injuries and infection that could require further care or abdominal surgery. Health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center warn women of these risks before they consent to the procedures. ["Medical Versus Surgical