Abortion

What is abortion?

"Abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death." [1]
It means that abortion is used to remove deliberately the still living blabla or the already dead blabla.

What is the difference between a human embryo and fetus?

• Embryo: Until the third month of pregnancy the organism is callled embryo. After that point, it is called fetus.
• Fetus: The organism after three months (when the major structures have formed) until birth.
  

Why three months?

The limit of three months (12 weeks) is not universal, some put it at 8 weeks.

Is abortion a form of contraception?

• A definition of contraception: different methods used in order to avoid temporarily the fertilization

According this definition, abortion is not a contraception form because the fertilization has already occured.

• Another defintion:

What are the different forms of abortion?

• Induced abortion: An induced abortion is a pregnancy which is voluntarily aborted and this can be done by using different methods. The method used depends mainly upon the gestional age of the fetus (the age of a fetus from the first day to the day the pregnancy arrives to its term. But the method chosen also depends