Medical abortions A medical abortion is a type of non-surgical abortion in which abortifacient pharmaceutical drugs are used to induce abortion.

An oral preparation for medical abortion is commonly referred to as an abortion pill. Medical abortion became an alternative method of abortion with the availability of prostaglandin analogs in the 1970s and the antiprogestogen mifepristone in the 1980s. he most common early first-trimester medical abortion regimens use mifepristone in combination with a prostaglandin analog !misoprostol or gemeprost" up to #$ days of gestational age% methotre&ate in combination with a prostaglandin analog up to '9 days gestation% or a prostaglandin analog alone. Mifepristone(misoprostol combination regimens wor) faster and are more effective at later gestational ages than methotre&ate(misoprostol combination regimens. Mifepristone(misoprostol and methotre&ate(misoprostol combination regimens are more effective than misoprostol alone. Medical abortion regimens using mifepristone in combination with a prostaglandin analog are the most common methods used to induce second-trimester abortions in *anada% most of +urope% *hina and ,ndia in contrast to the -nited .tates where 9#/ of second-trimester abortions are performed surgically by dilation and evacuation. he early first-trimester medical abortion regimen !000 mg of oral mifepristone% followed 0'('8 hours later by 800 mcg of buccal misoprostol" currently used by 1lanned 1arenthood clinics in the -nited .tates since April 000# is 98.$/ effective through 29 days gestation. A 0011 systematic review found that it was simpler and e3ually safe to administer mifepristone in clinic and have the pregnant woman later ta)e misoprostol at home as it was to administer both drugs in the clinic. A 4uttmacher ,nstitute survey of abortion providers estimated that early medical abortions accounted for 17/ of all nonhospital abortions and slightly over one-3uarter of abortions before 9 wee)s gestation in the -nited .tates in 00085medical abortions accounted for $0/ of first trimester abortions at 1lanned 1arenthood clinics in the -nited .tates in 0008. 6or more information on medical abortions visit http788dramoswomensclinic.co.9a8medicalabortion.html

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