Is medical abortion safe?

Accidents always catch many female friends off guard. Due to wrong timing or financial constraints, many women have to choose abortion after becoming pregnant. However, when it comes to current abortion methods, there are quite a few, including medical abortion, painless abortion, and uterine-preserving abortion. Among them, the most cost-effective method is medical abortion. In order to avoid harming their bodies, many women want to know whether medical abortion is safe when choosing it.

If you want to reduce the damage of medical abortion to the uterus, you first need to choose the right time. Medical abortion cannot be used for fetuses over 3 months old. The best time for medical abortion is between one and a half to two and a half months of pregnancy. The later you postpone it, the greater the damage caused by medical abortion.

Women should be cautious when choosing medical abortion. Usually, the embryonic sac in the uterine cavity will be discharged in about 2 to 3 days. At this time, vaginal bleeding will be heavier, and there will be reactions such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, weakness, and stomach pain. The decidual tissue in the uterus can often be slowly discharged in about 2 weeks, and then the bleeding will stop. This is called complete abortion. Medical abortion has only a 75% success rate, which means that 25% of women still face the risk of unsafe abortion. If the embryo aborted by medical abortion is incomplete, another uterine curettage will be needed.

Experts say that if prolonged bleeding occurs after medical abortion, it may be because the embryo was not completely expelled. At the same time, experts also emphasized that medical abortion is not safe. If the abortion is not complete, the embryo will remain in the uterus for a long time, which will cause intrauterine infection, damage the endometrium, and then cause fallopian tube occlusion, and eventually lead to infertility.

According to a report from the World Health Organization, there are currently approximately 50 to 80 million people worldwide suffering from infertility. In China, more than 6 million people suffer from serious consequences such as female infertility and heavy bleeding every year due to inappropriate medical abortion methods.

I believe you already know whether medical abortion is safe. In fact, among the many abortion methods, although medical abortion is the cheapest one, it is also the one with the greatest risk. Therefore, it is recommended that female friends who have to terminate their pregnancy should go to a professional hospital for an abortion for the sake of their health.