Talking about abortion is immersing oneself in a very complex subject given the perspective from which it is approached, for a great majority worldwide it is an inadmissible fact because it is considered a murder, for others it is justified in extreme cases.
Scientifically and religiously, the conception of a living being is considered from the moment a fertilized ovum is implanted inside the maternal uterus, and it is here that they have been raised controversies in relation to abortion. There are those who think that a fetus is not a living being until it is born and others that it is from the moment of implantation in the uterus of the fertilized ovum.
Socially, it has been sought to find a kind of legal and / or scientific regulation to deal with the issue depending on the circumstances.
An abortion is considered when the termination of the pregnancy occurs before the fetus can survive outside the womb, either spontaneously or provoked. This leads to classifying it into three types:
Types of abortion
Spontaneous
It is considered spontaneous when it occurs naturally, with no express external cause for the termination of pregnancy before approximately 3 to 4 months.
During this gestation period, the woman must take care of possible falls and even simple slips, as they can be the cause of pregnancy loss. In the same way, it usually affects high levels of anxiety in the pregnant woman, uncontrolled pathologies before conception such as urinary tract infections, hypertension, diabetes, overweight, to name a few.
There is a greater probability of incidence in elderly women than in young women.
When is the possibility of an abortion spontaneous?
Once a woman becomes pregnant, she should not have vaginal bleeding, if this case still appears in small spots, it is a warning sign that deserves to be attended to promptly. Crampy abdominal pain, with or without vaginal bleeding. Before any of these signs you should go to the treating doctor. Any symptoms other than those of pregnancy (vomiting, dizziness) should be a cause for alert in favor of a successful delivery.
What should be done in these cases?
The doctor will order special laboratory tests (quantitative beta HCG) to determine the continuity of the pregnancy, Progesterone levels, hematological counts that allow him to rule out and / or control anemia and infections.
Possible causes.
A high percentage is due to chromosomal problems that do not allow embryonic development.In many other cases harmful habits influence the life of one or both parents such as drugs, alcohol and smoking.
In some cases, environmental contamination could influence, when there are high levels of toxins in the environment where the pregnant woman develops. Hormonal uncontrols, hypertension, diabetes, overweight, infections, etc.
An aspect of great importance to consider and that has an impact in these cases, is the RH factor of the mother and father. Any woman whose factor is RH- and the father RH + should have special medical consideration, particularly after the first pregnancy.
Blood is classified into four groups: A, B, AB and O and typified into two types (Rh factor) that are proteins present in cells and classified into + or - depending on whether or not it is present on the surface of red blood cells. . If a person has this protein it is Rh + and logically if it does not present it it is Rh-. There is a high percentage of individuals with the + factor, In the union of a couple, different blood combinations can occur, but an incompatibility only occurs when the mother is Rh- and the father is Rh +.
If the baby inherits maternal blood there is no problem, otherwise it is if paternal blood is inherited. At the time of delivery the blood of the mother and the child could come into contact and the maternal organism will detect the Rh factor of the child as a foreign agent and will create antibodies in their immune system to defend themselves against those proteins that enter their body. Generally, there is no problem in the first pregnancy since the two bloods do not come into contact. In the following pregnancies, incompatibilities may occur that affect the health of the fetus to the point of causing spontaneous abortions or serious conditions to the point of being fatal for the child once it has been born.
This aspect is of the utmost importance and its study is extremely broad, it is advisable for couples to inform themselves widely because due to their ignorance there are losses of life that could be avoided
This type of abortion should induce the woman to a medical evaluation in order to establish your health conditions to achieve a successful case. In conclusion, if you are facing a possible spontaneous abortion, in addition to controlling blood loss, you must rest completely until the threat disappears.
Faced with this type of abortion, the consequences for the mother are more emotional than physical. You can get pregnant again but emotionally both the mother and the father will face a difficult grief to overcome, even more if it was a much desired pregnancy.
Induced
It is that caused by actions or external agents in order to interrupt the pregnancy.
In this case, the great debates in this regard are presented given the ethical, moral, social, legal and religious implications that it contains for all the actors that are part of the act in question.
In recent times there is a high percentage of this type of abortion among the youngest, due to the attitude with which they lead their sexual life. His love activity is given for the moment, no responsible planning in terms of protection to avoid unwanted pregnancies and the solution to the "problem" is the most irresponsible, "abortion."
The methods used for this purpose vary from the so-called "te" of herbs that have abortifacient properties through pharmacological means to surgical practice.
Resorting to abortion is a difficult and risky decision and much more if it is approached without sufficient knowledge of the ways to be used. The greatest risk is run when it is decided to use herbal drinks and / or other preparations without due knowledge of their real properties, the concentration in which it is prepared and without neglecting the body's reaction to foreign agents. . On the other hand, some resort to inserting objects into the vagina with the aim of causing bleeding that leads to the termination of pregnancy and in many cases even their own life is lost.
Another method is the consumption of medications (abortion pills) used in the first weeks of pregnancy.
Those more risky undergo surgical practices in clandestine and logically illegal clinics, where large numbers of women run the risk of losing their lives along with their children in the hands of people not qualified for such practices. In them, the "patient" does not receive the necessary vital signs monitoring measures, the medical instruments may not be appropriate, which can lead to uncontrollable bleeding.
This practice is the most legally punished in the world and has the highest incidence in underdeveloped countries.
The decision to have an abortion it is unique to the womanHowever, this can be influenced by different factors, mainly external:
- Among adolescent girls fear to face their parents and / or society.
- Economic difficulties to face the maintenance of the baby.
- Pressures of the couple so as not to assume commitments
- Psychological conflicts, fear of motherhood.
In a woman, this decision inevitably causes emotional marks, for this reason the possibility of conceiving unwanted pregnancies should be more consciously evaluated in order to avoid that these innocent beings are the ones who pay for the "mistake" with your life.
Therapeutic abortion.
It is one that is indicated for medical reasons when there are prognoses of pathologies in pregnancy that do not allow the development of a new life. In the same way when the life of the mother is in obvious danger of death before the advance of the pregnancy.
There are cases in which both the life of the mother and the fetus are in danger of death. Among the most common are:
- Ectopic pregnanciesimplanted outside the uterus, either in the fallopian tubes or in the ovaries. The embryonic development will break the organ where it is implanted producing great hemorrhage that compromises the maternal outflow.
- Liver rupture for severe uncontrolled hypertension.
- Severe kidney failure
Regardless of the type of abortion a woman faces, there are endless emotions left in her that will affect her for life. This is a subject of very extensive evaluations depending on the point of view in which you focus. Those who had to undergo spontaneous and / or therapeutic abortions will always retain a hint of sadness in the face of the irremediable loss of a desired being. Those who chose intentional abortions may live with feelings of guilt and regret. Who can really know what feeling they have left? Are we someone qualified to judge?