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3 Hits Abdulaziz A. Aug 2, 2022, 2:12 PM Dec 5, 2022, 5:01 AM
Abortion is the expulsion of the fetus from the uterus before it is sufficiently developed. The most common time for abortion to occur is between 8 and 13 weeks into the pregnancy. There are 4 types of abortion; spontaneous, induced, therapeutic and unsafe abortion. Each year women around the world experience 80 million unwanted pregnancies. Out of these mothers, nearly 42 million decide to have an abortion and about 20 million of them undergo unsafe abortion. A woman's decision to get an abortion is not made in a vacuum, but is bound up in society's feelings about a abortion as well as her feelings about the pregnancy. Whatever the legal status of abortion, high quality services for treating and managing complications of abortions should be accessible to all women to reduce related maternal death. The recently promoted abortion care approach is women-centered approach of provision of the services. In the woman –centered approach, the provider asks for and focuses on woman’s concerns and interests and takes a comprehensive approach to meeting every woman’s medical and psychological needs at the time of treatment. The consequences of and complications arising from unsafe abortion are multiple and may occur immediately or later. They can be categorized as medical, psychological, social and economic.
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