Abortion

Abortion
Every year, about one million female teenagers get pregnant. Over 40 percent of those pregnancies result in having an abortion. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 3 out of 4 girls who choose to have an abortion say that they don’t have enough money to support a baby, and 2 out of 3 say that they are not emotionally ready.
So what really is an abortion? An abortion ends a pregnancy before it takes place, and there are many different forms of it. One is called a spontaneous abortion. This is when an embryo or fetus dies in the uterus and is expelled by the body. Spontaneous abortions are also called miscarriages after 20 weeks of pregnancy. An induced abortion is when a woman chooses to end her own pregnancy. One form of an induced abortion is a medical abortion, which is when women make the decision to use a combination of drugs to end their pregnancies. It is usually called a very early abortion because a medical abortion is usually used up to 49 days af...